Buttery Lemon Tart With Crispy Meringue

Name: Buttery Lemon Tart With Crispy Meringue
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 55 min
Ingredients: For Short Crust Pastry. (for short crust pastry); 1 cup Refined flour; 1/2 cup Butter (chilled cut in); 2 tbsp Powdered Sugar; to Cold water (or dough required bring dough together); Lemon (or curd for curd); 4 Egg Yolk; 3 tbsp Lemon Juice; 3 tbsp Butter; 4 tbsp Sugar; For Meringue (for meringue); 110 gm Castor Sugar; 1/2 tsp Cream (of tartar); 1 tsp Vanilla Essence; 2 egg whites

Rajni Gupta Anand

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About Buttery Lemon Tart With Crispy Meringue

Lemon tart has balanced sweet and tangy flavour .Dish is complete in iteself in terms of flavours and textures.

4.25 from 4 votes

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Recipe Time & More

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time45 minutes mins

Total Time55 minutes mins

Served AsDesserts

Recipe TasteSour Sweet

Servings - 4

Ingredients

▢ For Short Crust Pastry. for short crust pastry
▢ 1 cup Refined flour
▢ 1/2 cup Butter chilled cut in
▢ 2 tbsp Powdered Sugar
▢ to Cold water or dough required bring dough together
▢ Lemon or curd for curd
▢ 4 Egg Yolk
▢ 3 tbsp Lemon Juice
▢ 3 tbsp Butter
▢ 4 tbsp Sugar
▢ For Meringue for meringue
▢ 110 gm Castor Sugar
▢ 1/2 tsp Cream of tartar
▢ 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
▢ 2 egg whites

Instructions

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For short crust pastry mix flour.and sugar . To this add butter and rub with both hands to get bread crumbs consistency.
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Next add chilled water ad required to bring dough together.cling wrap and keep in fridge for 30 mins.
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For lemon curd. In s sauce pan add egg yolk, sugar and lemon juice. Mix well. Now switch on flame and cook on low flame. .
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Keep stirring while cooking till it thickens and start coating back of spoon .
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Let it cool.
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For tart shell . Roll chilled dough and place it on tart mould.Remove excess.
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Blind bake for 20 mins at 190 degree. Then remove beans and bake for another 5 min .
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Cool it .Now fill lemon curd in cooked tart shell
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For meringue . Whisk egg white. When it thickens add sugar spoon by spoon.
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Whisk till it attain soft peak consistency.
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Fill in a piping bag . And pipe meringue kisses.
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Bake at 120 degree for 90 mins s till it is crisp from all sides .
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Assemble the dessert as shown in pic

Recipe Notes

For lemon curd don’t cook egg m8xture on.higj flame
For crispy tart shell don’t overwork dough just bring it together .

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4.25 from 4 votes

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4 Comments

Raj Aryan

March 19, 2022 / 7:24 pm Log in to Reply

Looks so yummy! Excited to make it.
Abhishek sikaria

May 28, 2021 / 4:21 pm Log in to Reply

This looks divine! Can’t wait to make it.
Divya Preet

April 18, 2020 / 6:19 am Log in to Reply

Absolutely mouthwatering! Great share.
Bhawna Shroff

February 23, 2015 / 7:11 pm Log in to Reply

Absolutely scrumptious! Thanks for the recipe.