Strawberry Tart

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Strawberry Tart

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Ingredients

1 sweet pastry or puff pastry
Crème pâtissière (custard cream):
- 1/2 litre of milk, boiling hot
- 80 g sugar
- 4 yolks
- 45 g cornstarch
- 1/2 vanilla bean or vanilla extract
- 20 g butter
- 500 g strawberries
- 1 small bunch mint leaves
- 30g icing sugar

Details

servings 6
Level of difficulty Average
Preparation time 45mins
Cooking time 35mins
Cost Budget Friendly

Preparation

Step 1

Cook the pastry, empty, in a flan tin with weights, for about 30 minutes.
Leave to cool.

Step 2

Make the custard cream:
Heat the milk with half the sugar and the vanilla bean.
Whiten the egg yolks with the other 1/2 of sugar and add the cornstarch.
Add the hot boiled milk, whisking.
Place back on the heat and boil for 1 minute continuing to whisk.
Off the heat, add the butter. Leave to cool then place in the fridge until chilled.

Step 3

Garnish the pastry with the chilled custard. Cover with the strawberries, previously sliced.
Sprinkle with icing sugar and decorate with the mint leaves.