{"id":940,"date":"2017-06-17T22:57:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T12:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/?p=940"},"modified":"2021-01-30T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T22:24:13","slug":"prune-almond-tart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/17\/prune-almond-tart\/","title":{"rendered":"Prune &#038; Almond Tart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0164-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0164-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0164-1-140x94.jpg 140w, https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0164-1.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">This tart is as beautiful as it is delicious, the soaked prunes give it a wonderful flavour&#8230;&#8230;..and it is very French \u2665\u00a0 I have served it at many a dinner &amp; lunch party and it always wows everyone.\u00a0 Armagnac is a French liqueur and just add a divine flavour to the prunes.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Ingredients:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>300g dried prunes<\/li>\n<li>4 tbsp Armagnac<\/li>\n<li>1 large egg, lightly beaten<\/li>\n<li>35g ground almonds<\/li>\n<li>55g caster sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 x 200g tub cr\u00e8me fraiche<\/li>\n<li>Icing sugar for dusting<\/li>\n<li>Double cream or ice cream for serving<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Method:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Put the prunes into a small bowl, and pour over the Armagnac and leave for 1 hour, turning them often.<\/li>\n<li>Roll out the pasty on lightly floured surface and line a greased loose-bottomed flan tin 24cm\u00a0wide\u00a0&amp; 2.5cm deep.<\/li>\n<li>Prick the base all over with a fork and chill for 30 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Preheat the oven to 200\u00b0C, and line the pastry case with baking paper and baking beans and place in oven for 4-5 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Remove, brush the inside of the case with a little of the beaten egg, and return to the oven for another 2minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Set aside, reduce the temperature of the oven to 190\u00b0C.<\/li>\n<li>Drain the prunes over a bowl and reserve the liquid.<\/li>\n<li>Add the found almonds, egg, sugar &amp; cr\u00e8me fraiche to the liquid, and beat together until smooth.<\/li>\n<li>Scatter the prunes over the base of the pastry case, pour over the almond mixture and bake for 45 minutes until golden brown, and when tested with a skewer it comes out clean.<\/li>\n<li>Carefully remove the tart from the tin and leave to cool slightly on a wire rack.<\/li>\n<li>Dust with a little icing sugar and serve warm or at room temperature cut into wedges, with cream or ice cream.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em><strong>Pastry:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>225g plain flour<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>130g chilled butter, cut into cubes<\/li>\n<li>1\u00bd-2 tbsp cold water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sift the flour and salt into a food processor, add the pieces of chilled butter and work together until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs.<\/p>\n<p>Stir in the water with a round-bladed knife until it comes together into a ball.\u00a0 Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead briefly until smooth.\u00a0 Roll out on a little more flour and place into flan tin.<\/p>\n<p>You can substitute a normal sweet shortcrust pastry instead of this one if you prefer.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Enjoy!\u00a0 Please leave a comment below\u00a0if you like this recipe as I love feedback \u2665<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tart is as beautiful as it is delicious, the soaked prunes give it a wonderful flavour&#8230;&#8230;..and it is very French \u2665\u00a0 I have served it at many a dinner &amp; lunch party and it always wows everyone.\u00a0 Armagnac is a French liqueur and just add a divine flavour to the prunes.\u00a0 &nbsp; Ingredients: 300g [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monrealescookinginspirations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}