Month: January 2016

Day: January 18, 2016

FRENCH PEAR TART

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INGREDIENTS

  • Crust
  • 1½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 5 tbsp sugar
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 12 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
  • Filling
  • 8 large pears, washed
  • 3 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 1 tbsp water
  • ¾ cup fig preserves
  • ¼ tsp salt

INSTRUCTIONS

In a bowl, mix together flour, sugar and salt. Add melted butter and combine to form dough.

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Transfer dough to a 9-inch tart pan with a removable bottom. With your hands press dough down to spread on bottom and onto the rims of the pan.Pear-Tart-Recipe-6
Meanwhile, heat the fig preserves in microwave for about 40 seconds. Pear-Tart-Recipe-13Pour heated fig preserves through a mesh strainer to separate chunks from liquid.

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Now, slice five pears into ½-inch slices, discarding core.Pear-Tart-Recipe-9
Heat 1 tbsp of butter in a large cast iron skillet. Add pear slices and 1 tbsp water. Cover and cook on medium heat until pears are slightly tender; about 3 minutes.



Remove pears onto a large platter and let sit to cool.
Take the remaining three pears and cut them in the same manner.
Now melt 2 tbsp of butter in previously used cast iron skillet. Add newly-sliced pears, chunks of fig reserves, and salt. Cook on medium heat, covered, for ten minutes; stir occasionally until pears are very tender.Pear-Tart-Recipe-18

Take a potato masher and mash the pears and fig reserves into a puree. Let cook for another 5-7 minutes or until pureed mixture reduces and thickens.Pear-Tart-Recipe-21
Now, take the cooled pear slices and begin to assemble them in layered circles, starting at the outer edges

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Place tart on the middle rack of the oven. Bake in 350 degree F-heated oven for 30 minutes.
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