Zesty Lemon Tart
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2 hours 5 minutes
This is a recipe for lemon tart but the filling can also be used to make little tartlets. As with the best lemon tarts, the ingredients are very simple!
Carol F
8 people made this
Ingredients
Serves: 8
- For the pastry
- 250g plain flour
- 125g butter
- 60g caster sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- For the lemon filling
- 9 eggs
- 300ml whipping cream
- 375g caster sugar
- 5 large lemons
Directions
Preparation:1hour ›
Cook:1hour5min ›
Ready in:2hours5min
- To make the pastry: put flour in a large bowl, add the butter and rub in until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the caster sugar, then bind together with the beaten egg.
- Wrap in cling wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees C. Roll out the dough and line a flan or tart tin. Cover pastry with foil and add a little raw rice and bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove the rice and foil and bake for a further 5 minutes.
- Reduce the oven temperature to 180 degrees C.
- Beat the eggs, add the cream, caster sugar, the juice of all the lemons and the finely grated rind of 2 lemons. Stir until smooth.
- Pour the mixture into the flan tin and bake for 35-40 minutes until mixture is just set.
- Serve at room temperature and enjoy!
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The recipe easy and is a very good way to use those extra lemons. Althought I think there is too much filling and that it can serve more than 8 and it needs to be more discriptive when baking the tart in the end it's YUMMY - 09 Jul 2011