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French Lemon Tart

Prep40 minCook40 minTotal80 minDifficultyMedium
French Lemon Tart

Ingredients

8 servings

Contains: Gluten, Milk, Egg

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Nutrition

Per serving

Calories
384.5
total 3076.2
Protein
6.9 g
total 55.3 g
Carbs
47.5 g
total 379.8 g
Fat
19 g
total 152.3 g

Estimated · based on 10 of 10 ingredients

A crisp sweet pastry case filled with a smooth, bright lemon custard that balances sharp citrus against buttery richness. The tarte au citron of Paris bistros.

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Method

  1. 1
    • wheat flour200 g
    • butter100 g
    • powdered sugar60 g
    • egg yolk1
    • water2 tbsp

    Make the pastry dough — Rub the butter into the flour and icing sugar, then bind with the egg yolk and water to a dough. Wrap and chill for 30 minutes.

  2. 2

    Blind-bake the tart shell — Heat the oven to 180C. Roll out the pastry, line a tart tin, prick the base, and blind-bake for 15 minutes until pale gold. Lower the oven to 150C.

  3. 3
    • egg4
    • white sugar150 g
    • lemon juice1½ dl
    • lemon zest1 tbsp
    • heavy cream1¼ dl

    Make the lemon filling — Whisk the eggs with the sugar, then whisk in the lemon juice, zest, and cream until smooth. Pour the filling into the warm tart shell.

  4. 4
    • powdered sugar60 g

    Bake and chill the tart — Bake for about 25 minutes until the filling is just set with a faint wobble. Cool completely, then chill before dusting with icing sugar to serve.

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