Ingredients
1 cup plain flour
1/2 cup almond meal
2 tbs. caster sugar
75 g butter (chopped)
3 tbs. iced water
Lemon filling
1/2 cup lemon juice
1 cup water
3/4 cup caster sugar
3 tbs. custard powder
Instructions
Place flour, almond meal, sugar and butter in food processor bowl. Whisk until mixture resembles bread crumbs. While motor is still running, add iced water a tablespoon at a time until mixture starts to come together. Tip onto a floured surface, knead lightly to form a dough. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 180°C. Roll dough between two sheets of non-stick baking paper to 3mm thick and large enough to line a 22cm flan tin with removable base. Roll pastry around a rolling pin and carefully unroll into flan tin. Cursing quietly when you haven’t lined it up properly and the edge of the tin cuts through the pastry… trim edges. Line pastry with baking paper and fill with baking weights or pasta/rice.
Cook (baking blind) flan for 10 minutes then remove paper and weights and cook for a further 10-15 minutes until pastry is golden.
Place lemon juice, water and sugar in a saucepan, bring to the boil and stir until sugar is dissolved. Mix custard powder in some hot water and stir into lemon mixture. Continue stirring until lemon filling thickens. Pour into pastry base, cool for 10 minutes and then refrigerate for a few hours until filling is set.
Serve wedges of tart with thick cream.
Serves: 8
Cooking time: 1 Hour
Difficulty: Easy
Pairs well with Survivor Sauvignon Blanc.
