Strawberry tart with pastry cream and pistachio

Again a strawberry tart. You should be receiving so many in your inbox right now. But I love strawberries so much that I could just not imagine not sharing this beautiful tart with you.

If you like to eat them just with a bit of sugar, check out my strawberry salad and for the Chantilly, this is right here!

Strawberry tart with pastry cream and pistachio

a French girl cuisine

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Prep Time 30 mins

Cook Time 30 mins

Total Time 1 hr

Course Dessert

Cuisine French

Servings 6

Ingredients

  

Dough

• 250 gr. of flour
• 125 gr. of diced butter
• 3 tablespoons of milk
• 80 gr. of iced sugar
• 1 pinch of salt
• 2 egg yolks

Pastry cream

• 2 eggs and 1 egg yolk
• 30 gr. of flour
• 80 gr. of sugar
• 1/2 vanilla pod
• 0.5 l. of milk

Decoration

• 500 gr. of strawberries
• 3 tablespoons of apricot jam
• 1 teaspoon of lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons of crushed pistachio

Instructions

 

Dough

• Preheat oven to 220°C.
• Mix with food processor or hand flour, butter, iced sugar, milk, salt and 2 egg yolks. Knead and make a ball.
• Roll out the dough in between two sheets of baking paper. Put in pie plate, prick with a fork and cook blind for 12 minutes.

Pastry cream

• Bring to a boil milk and seeded vanilla pod.
• Mix eggs and egg yolk with sugar until it becomes white.
• Add flour and mix.
• Pour little by little half of the milk while stirring.
• Return to the heat with the rest of milk until the cream thinken just before boiling.
• Leave to cool while preparing strawberries.

Decoration

• Wash and trim strawberries. Cut in two. Pour pastry cream on top of pie crust and place strawberries.
• Heat apricot jam with lemon juice. Brush on strawberries.
• Sprinkle pistachio and refrigerate.
• Remove 1 hour before serving.

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