Paul Hollywood's Strawberry Tarts
Category: Cakes and Bakes
Servings
Makes 4
Ingredients
For the sweet pastry
225g / 8 oz plain flour
110g / 4 oz butter
80g / 3 oz sugar
1 large egg, whisked
For the crème patisserie
2 free range eggs
30g/1.5 oz caster sugar
1 tsps corn flour
15g/ ½oz plain flour
140ml milk
Vanilla pod
250g/ Strawberries
Icing sugar for dusting
Method
For the pastry, rub the butter and the flour together by hand,
using your finger tips. The mix should look like large bread
crumbs.
Add the whole whisked egg and the sugar.
Bring all the ingredients together to form a ball of pastry.
Wrap in cling film and chill for at least 20 minutes
For the crème patisserie, whisk the egg yolks and sugar together in
a bowl until pale and light.
Fold in the corn flour and flour.
Bring the milk to the boil in a small saucepan and then whisk it
gradually into the egg mixture
Pour the mixture into a clean pan and bring it slowly to the boil
until it thickens. Simmer for a minute and then take the pan off
the heat.
Pass through a sift.
Split vanilla pod in half length ways, scrape out the seeds and add
to the mixture.
Cover with cling film and allow to cool. Then place in a piping
bag.
Pre heat oven to 170 degrees C
Roll out pastry to about 4mm thick. Carefully line the four tartlet
tins. Leaving an over hang of pastry. Place on a baking tray.
Chill for twenty minutes.
Blind bake pastry for ten minutes.
Turn down oven to 160 degrees C
Remove baking beans and prick pastry with a fork and cook for a
further ten minutes.
Egg wash tarts and cook for a further five minutes.
Leave the pastry in the tins and allow to cool.
With a small edged serrated knife, trim the excess pastry from the
tins. Being very delicate.
Remove pastry cases from tartlet tins.
Pipe in the vanilla crème patisserie.
Hull three strawberries slice them three quarters the way down, so
the slices are still connected.
Fan out strawberries, arrange on top of the crème patisserie.
Dust with icing sugar.
Per tart:
641 cals
30g fat
17g saturated fat
0.7g salt
80g carbohydrates
34g sugar
2.5g fibre

