Italian Food Recipes

This is a typical dessert of this period in Italy. In my garden, my fig tree begins to give many figs, and so after made the fig jam I decided to make a tart with figs and cream. It is a delicious Italian recipes!




INGREDIENTS (for 8 people):
For the pastry:
100 g of Flour
30 g of Almonds without peel
50 g of Butter
40 g of Sugar
1 Yolk
1 Lemon grated peel
A pinch of Salt
For the stuffed:
400 g of Figs
3 Yolks
3 Tablespoons of sugar
30 g of Flour
20 ml of White Wine

PREPARATION TIME: 40 minutes

COOKING TIME: 20 minutes

WINE: Verduzzo Friulano (White Wine)

PREPARATION
Begin with the preparation of the pastry. Let the butter soften at room temperature.

Chop finely the almond. Place the flour on a worktable as a fountain, put in the middle of it the pieces of butter, the chopped almonds, the sugar, the lemon grated peel, the yolk and a pinch of salt.

Mix all the ingredients until you obtain homogeneous dough. The cover it with a cellophane and let it stand in fridge for about 30 minutes.

Dampen a sheet of baking paper and put it on the bottom of a pan of 24-cm diameter. Then roll out the dough 1 cm thick and cover the bottom and the sides of the pan.

With a fork riddle with holes the pastry and bake for 25 minutes until the surface becomes golden.
In the meantime prepare the stuffed.

Clean, peel and cut the figs in slices. Heat the wine in a pan. In a bowl mix the yolks with the sugar

then add the flour and the warm wine and continue to mix until you obtain a homogeneous cream.

Pour the cream in a pan and cook it on a low flame stirring for about 5 minutes.

Let the cream cool. Then pour it over the pastry as shown in the picture below.

Place over the cream the slices of fig as you prefer.

Get the tart cool and serve.
This is the result:

BUON APPETITO!