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Buttery Lemon Tart With Crispy Meringue
Rajni Gupta Anand
Lemon tart has balanced sweet and tangy flavour .Dish is complete in iteself in terms of flavours and textures.
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Prep Time
10
minutes
mins
Cook Time
45
minutes
mins
Total Time
55
minutes
mins
Served As
Desserts
Recipe Cuisine Type
French
Servings
4
Ingredients
1x
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3x
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
For short crust pastry mix flour.and sugar . To this add butter and rub with both hands to get bread crumbs consistency.
Next add chilled water ad required to bring dough together.cling wrap and keep in fridge for 30 mins.
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. .
Keep stirring while cooking till it thickens and start coating back of spoon .
Let it cool.
For tart shell . Roll chilled dough and place it on tart mould.Remove excess.
Blind bake for 20 mins at 190 degree. Then remove beans and bake for another 5 min .
Cool it .Now fill lemon curd in cooked tart shell
For meringue .
Whisk
egg white. When it thickens add sugar spoon by spoon.
Whisk
till it attain soft peak consistency.
Fill in a piping bag . And pipe meringue kisses.
Bake at 120 degree for 90 mins s till it is crisp from all sides .
Assemble the dessert as shown in pic
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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