Strawberry custard tart
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Makes: 12 portions
 
Ingredients
Dough
  • 100 ml milk
  • 10 gr dried yeast
  • 15 gr soft butter
  • 20 gr white sugar
  • 200 gr white bread flour
  • 3 gr salt
  • 10 gr oil
  • 1 egg yolk
Filling
  • 660 ml milk
  • 40 gr custard powder
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 50 gr white sugar
  • 1 tspn vanilla flavour
Topping:
  • 5 tbspn strawberry jam
  • 500 gr strawberries
  • 125 gr double cream
  • 2 tbspn toasted almond flakes
Instructions
Dough
  1. Warm the milk until lukewarm. Pour the milk in a bowl, add the yeast, butter and sugar and mix well. Let the yeast wake up for 5 min.
  2. Add the white flour, the salt, oil and egg yolk. Knead the dough until elastic and smooth.
  3. Let the dough rise, covered with cling film, in a lightly floured clean bowl, in a draft free spot until doubled in size, about 90 min.
  4. Roll out the dough and line a greased shallow loose base flan case with the dough.
Filling
  1. Mix some of the cold milk with the egg yolks, sugar and custard powder.
  2. Warm the remainder of the milk with the vanilla flavour and cinnamon.
  3. Pour in the cold milk and bring to the boil while stirring until the custard thickens.
  4. Set aside, covered with cling film, until needed.
To finish
  1. Preheat the oven to 150°C.
  2. Pour the custard in the lined flan case.
  3. Bake the tart 25 min or until the pastry is fully cooked. Allow to cool on a wire rack.
  4. Spread the strawberry jam on the baked custard. Garnish with the strawberries, whipped double cream and toasted almond flakes.
Stuff to know
This recipe will fill a flan case with 26 cm Ø and yields about 12 portions.
Make sure the custard is really thick before adding it to the flan case.
The milk in which you dissolve the yeast can’t be warmer than 50°C or the yeast dies.
Recipe by Jeroen Valkenier Recipes at https://jpvalkenier.com/strawberry-custard-tart/