Cooking with Castroverde: Lemon Tart
Ingredients
Crust:
- 1 stick of butter
- 1 tbsp of oil (I used canola)
- 3 tbsp of water
- 1 tbsp of sugar
- ⅛ tsp of salt (AKA a pinch)
- 1 ½ cups of flour
Lemon Curd
- 1 cup of lemon juice
- 2 eggs
- 1 yolk
- Lemon zest (as much as you want)
- 1 ½ cups of sugar
- ½ stick of butter
Creme Fraiche:
- 1 tsp of buttermilk
- 1 cup of heavy cream
Things you will need:
- Saucepan
- A pie tin
- Spoon
- Mason jars
- 3 bowls (one has to be allowed to be in the oven)
- A hand mixer or a stand mixer
- Fork
Steps
Creme Fraiche:
- Put the buttermilk and heavy cream in a mason jar and shake it.
- Leave the jar in a warm area like in an oven or by a sunny window for 8 – 24 hours.
- After the hours are up, put the creamy liquid into a bowl. Grab your electric mixer or your stand mixer and mix the creamy liquid on medium speed for 5 minutes. Add sugar. To know when done, the liquid has turned into a whipped cream. If you gone to far, you would have chunks in a white liquid (you have made sweet butter).
Lemon Curd:
- Add your eggs, yolk, sugar and lemon juice into a bowl and whisk for 5 minutes.
- Grab your saucepan and melt your butter on medium heat.
- After it is all melted, add your lemon mixture on low heat and whisk constantly for 10 minutes. The mixture will to curd. How do you know: the mixture will thicken and turn into a bright yellow.
- Depending on the thickness of the mixture, leave it on the heat for thicker, vise-versa.
Crust:
- Preheat your oven to 410 degree fahrenheit.
- In the oven safe bowl, add the butter, oil, water, sugar, and salt. Place the bowl into the oven for 15 minutes or when the mixture browns on the sides.
- After 15 minutes, take out the bowl slowly. It will be very hot and it sometimes spews so be very careful.
- Add the flour to the mixture and stir quickly. You will know when everything is combined when a ball is formed and it does not stick on the sides.
- Add the ball to a pie pan, preferably a pan that has a removable bottom.
- Once it is fully cooled, push the ball to fit the pan. Grab a fork and stab the bottom of the pan. This will help air bubbles escape.
- Place the pan in the oven for 15 minutes or once is golden brown.
- Once done, let it sit until you are ready at least 10 minutes.
Put the pie together:
- Grab you creme fraiche and pour it into your bowl or stand mixer. Mix it on low until it begins to look like whip cream.
- Once that happens, add your lemon curd. I used a 1:1 ratio, but the more you add the more sour it gets.
- Stir on a very low setting until everything is well incorporated.
- Pour the lemon filling into the pie crust and spread it evenly.