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Strawberry and lime pie

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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Servings 6 people

Ingredients
  

Pastry

  • 260 gr flour
  • 125 gr butter diced
  • 4 tbsp full cream
  • 40 gr icing sugar
  • 40 gr sugar
  • 2 egg yolks

Lime pastry cream

  • 2 eggs
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 30 gr flour
  • 80 gr sugar
  • 1 lime
  • 1/2 vanilla bean
  • 1/2 whole milk

Garnish

  • 1 kg strawberries

Finishes

  • 3 tbsp apricot jam
  • 1 tsp lime juice

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 200 ° C
  • Mix in a food processor or by hand the flour to which we add the butter, icing sugar, sugar, milk and 2 egg yolks.
  • Spread the dough between two sheets of parchment paper. Place your pastry ring on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Place your dough. Prick with a fork. Bake for about 8 minutes. Then remove the circle, prick with a fork if bubbles have formed. Bake for about 4 minutes, so that the outlines of the tart color a little. Reserve.
  • Bring the milk with the vanilla pods to a boil.
  • During this time, mix the eggs and the egg yolk with the sugar until the mixture whitens slightly then add the flour, lime zest and its juice (minus a tsp which will be reserved for the end). ).
  • Add the hot milk little by little while mixing quickly so as not to give the lumps time to form. Then put back on the heat for a few minutes (2-3) until the cream thickens. Remove from heat to the first broths.
  • Leave to cool while washing, hulling and chopping your strawberries.
  • Pour the pastry cream into your pie shell.
  • Arrange the strawberries.
  • Heat the apricot jam with the remaining teaspoon of lime juice. Apply on your strawberries with a kitchen brush to give them a little shiny side.
  • Reserve in the fridge. Take out 30 minutes, 1 hour before serving.