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Strawberry tartlets with lime pastry cream

Strawberry tartlets with lime pastry cream

a French girl cuisine
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine French
Servings 6

Ingredients
  

Pastry

  • 250 gr. of flour
  • 125 gr. butter cut into cubes
  • 3 tablespoons milk
  • 80 gr. icing sugar
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 2 egg yolks

Custard

  • 2 eggs and 1 egg yolk
  • 30 gr. of flour
  • 80 gr. sugar
  • 1 lime
  • ½ vanilla pod
  • ½ l. of milk

Garnish

  • 500 gr. strawberries

Finishes

  • 3 tablespoons apricot jam
  • 1 cc. lime

Instructions
 

Pastry

  • Preheat the oven to 200 ° C.
  • Mix the flour with the robot or by hand, adding butter, icing sugar, milk, salt and 2 egg yolks. Form a ball.
  • Spread the dough between two sheets of parchment paper. Place in your individual molds, prick with a fork, cover with cooking balls and cook for about 12 minutes.

Custard

  • Pour the milk into a small saucepan. Add the seeds of the vanilla bean and bring to a boil.
  • Meanwhile, mix eggs and egg yolk in a bowl with the sugar until the mixture is white and then add the flour, lime zest and its juice (reserve a teaspoon of lime juice for finishes).
  • Pour half the hot milk slowly into this mixture by whisking the mixture quickly and constantly to avoid lumps.
  • Put all on the fire with the rest of the milk and cook on low heat for a few minutes until the cream thickens, remove from heat at the first broths.
  • Allow to cool to room temperature while preparing the filling.

Garnish

  • Wash and hull strawberries. Cut in four. Pour the pastry cream on the pie base and arrange the strawberries on the cream.

Finishes

  • Heat the jam with the lime juice. Apply with a brush on strawberries for shine.
  • Exit 30 min, 1 hour before serving.