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Strawberry Lemoncurd Tart

February 14, 2012 by Uma Ramanujam

Does celebrating/showing love to your loved one require a gift?

One of my friends quoted in face book,

“If you are with the right person, everyday is your valentine’s day”

I find above words are absolutely true. However,  I understand that the definition and celebration of love differs from person to person and it is nothing wrong to buy a gift according to their capabilities and make their loved one more happy on special days like today. At the same time, one need to understand that getting/giving gifts alone won’t fulfil the heart. I will never stop if I start talking about it. Before that, let me go for today’s recipe.

When I prepared Lemon curd, preparing a lemon curd tart from the scratch was also in my to-do list using it. My web search yielded many results among which I selected this as it used the strawberry coulis too (which I prepared for my breakfast bread) for filling of tart.

This is my first experience of making a sweet tart. My attempt gave me a proper results but the edges of the tarts were shrunk a little after baking. If you want to prepare it in a quick way, buy a ready roll shortcrust pastry, bake it and enjoy with your own creative filling.

As I used my leftover strawberry coulis for this recipe, I couldn’t show stepwise pictures for it. I’ll be posting a detail and separate post for strawberry couli for sure in upcoming days.

Basic Information:

Preparation Time: 30 minutes

Idle Time: 45 minutes (30 minutes for shortcrust pastry and 15 minutes for final set)

Cooking Time: 1 hour

Makes: 12 mini tarts

Ingredients:

For Sweet Shortcrust Pastry:

All purpose flour/ Plain flour/ Maida – 2 cups

Caster sugar – 3 tablespoons

Cold butter – 1/2cup + 2 tablespoons

Iced water – 3 tablespoons

For Strawberry Coulis:

Strawberry – 1/2 cup, cut into small pieces

butter – 1 tablespoon

Sugar – 2 tablespoons

Cornstarch – 1/8 teaspoon

Water – 1 tablespoon

Strawberry – 3 nos, sliced, for decorating

For Lemon Curd:

Lemon curd – 12 tablespoons (Click here to see how to prepare lemon curd)

Method:

For Sweet Shortcrust Pastry:

1) In a mixing bowl, mix together the flour, sugar and the butter.

2) Make a fine bread crumbs like flour mixture as shown in picture.

3) Add water little at a time and make a smooth dough. Sometimes, you can form smooth dough using 2 tablespoons of water itself.

4) Knead it lightly and keep inside the bowl covering with the cling film.

5) Keep this dough inside the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

6) Meanwhile, prepare strawberry coulis and lemon curd. Make them to cool to a room temperature.(Steps for these two are given below)

7) Preheat the oven to 350F/176C.

8) Roll the cold pastry on a floured kitchen surface until 1/8inch thick.

 

9) Place them inside the tart tins and form the proper shape as shown in the picture. Make sure the pastry is sticking with the tin.

10) Place the parchment paper over it and fill with the baking weights. If you don’t have the baking weight, use dried chickpeas or uncooked rice or dried beans or coins. Bake it exactly for 10 minutes.

11) Remove the weights and bake again for another 10 minutes or until the crust slightly changes into golden brown in colour.

12) Allow it to cool for a while.

For Strawberry Coulis:

1) In a saucepan, melt butter and sugar. Heat till the butter melts.

2) Add strawberries and reduce the flame to low. Continue stirring till the strawberry becomes soft. Allow it to cool to a room temperature.

3) After cooling, blend it until smooth.

4) Pour the blended paste to a sauce pan again. Mix corn starch in a tablespoon of water and mix with strawberry paste. Heat it for sometime or until it becomes thick.

5) Strawberry couli is ready now. Cool and refrigerate.

For Assembling:

1) Take a tart, pour a teaspoon of strawberry couli into it. Keep this as a bottom layer.

2) Next top with the one or two tablespoons of lemon curd. Decorate it with sliced strawberries.

3) Keep inside the refrigerator for sometime to set the curd.

4) Repeat this with remaining tarts and enjoy!!!


Happy Valentine’s Day to you all!!!

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  1. Priya Sreeram

    February 14, 2012 at 2:24 PM

    yum ! i too believe in not singling out a day to express love- but then who doesn't love to be surprised ! fine treat this tart – uma

  2. Julie

    February 14, 2012 at 2:52 PM

    Looks a perfect treat for your Valentine,lovely colorful tarts!!
    Happy Valentines Day,Uma!!

    Erivum Puliyum

  3. Hamaree Rasoi

    February 14, 2012 at 3:07 PM

    Delicious and yummy looking tart. Happy valentine day to you.

    Deepa
    Hamaree Rasoi

  4. Princy Vinoth

    February 14, 2012 at 3:12 PM

    perfect for a lovely evening (not just Vday!)

  5. Kalyani

    February 14, 2012 at 3:12 PM

    Happy Valentine's Day !!!!!! yummy and tempting tart ….

  6. Aarthi

    February 14, 2012 at 3:25 PM

    WOW..I love this..Thanks for posting it Dear..

    Aarthi
    yummytummyaarthi.com/

  7. Sravs

    February 14, 2012 at 3:54 PM

    Happy Valentine Day !! So pretty and perfectly done !!

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  8. Menaga Sathia

    February 14, 2012 at 3:57 PM

    super delicious tart!!

  9. priya ravi

    February 14, 2012 at 4:10 PM

    Very cute tarts and love the lemon curd flavour.. Perfect treat for a special day ๐Ÿ™‚

  10. Priyanka

    February 14, 2012 at 4:55 PM

    YUM, looks great…and great combination of flavours

  11. Unknown

    February 14, 2012 at 5:12 PM

    Awesome combination tarts, luv the filling idea with lemon curd and strawberry…Looks very tempting

  12. Unknown

    February 14, 2012 at 5:22 PM

    awesome looking tart dear…luv it!

  13. Unknown

    February 14, 2012 at 5:31 PM

    lemon curd tarts huh!! Very interesting uma great work dear

  14. Vimitha Durai

    February 14, 2012 at 5:35 PM

    Haooy Valentine's day to you… But as u said a single day is not needed to express love.
    The tart looks so perfect n yummy.
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  15. Teena

    February 14, 2012 at 6:25 PM

    Awe..what a pretty tart!! Lovely click too! You can share with my ongoing-''Valentine's Day Event''(till Feb 20th)

  16. hotpotcooking

    February 14, 2012 at 6:40 PM

    WOW!! perfectly done. Tart looks delicious

  17. Santosh Bangar

    February 14, 2012 at 6:45 PM

    gr8 recipe looking gogerous

  18. DV

    February 14, 2012 at 6:48 PM

    Lovely! Your Valentine would be totally flattered, I'm sure! ๐Ÿ˜‰

  19. Unknown

    February 14, 2012 at 6:54 PM

    Wow…Tarts look absolutely delicious …..perfect for valentine's day ๐Ÿ™‚

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  20. Reshmi Mahesh

    February 14, 2012 at 7:05 PM

    Strawberry lemon curd looks tempting…

  21. Roshu

    February 14, 2012 at 7:38 PM

    Delicious tart……yummy tooo

  22. Sobha Shyam

    February 14, 2012 at 9:07 PM

    looks so yummy n delicious..perfect for the occasion .. Harpy Valentines Day dear..

    Join the Just "4" Fun event ๐Ÿ™‚

  23. Sangeetha M

    February 14, 2012 at 9:20 PM

    sounds interesting….looks so cute n delicious…good one Uma!
    Happy Valentines Day!!
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  24. divya

    February 14, 2012 at 9:50 PM

    Happy Valentine's day.. look gorgeous..

  25. Gayathri NG

    February 15, 2012 at 2:24 AM

    Simply divine n awesome tarts with innovation filling…

  26. Kaveri Venkatesh

    February 15, 2012 at 9:04 AM

    Yummy tarts Uma…Gifting something alone is definitely not a true expression of love, but getting surprises does make one happy doesn't it.

  27. Faseela

    February 15, 2012 at 2:14 PM

    aweome tart dear….wonderful

  28. Jeyashris Kitchen

    February 15, 2012 at 2:25 PM

    Cute lemon curd tarts. Nice recipe too

  29. Sensible Vegetarian

    February 15, 2012 at 4:54 PM

    Such a lovely treat, looks so good and love the nice step by step pictures.

  30. www.mahaslovelyhome.com

    February 15, 2012 at 10:10 PM

    nice space vth yummy recipes……looks awesoem..nice presentation…

  31. Vidhya

    February 16, 2012 at 12:11 AM

    Wow…I want to dig into that tart…so tempting.
    Great photos

  32. Unknown

    February 16, 2012 at 7:46 AM

    Tart looks amazing.Perfectly done.Superb decoration….

  33. Raks

    February 16, 2012 at 10:09 AM

    Not a big fan of lemony desserts, but enjoyed your pics as always ๐Ÿ™‚

  34. Plateful

    February 16, 2012 at 2:13 PM

    Wow, this's the second lemon curd tart I'm coming across tday. And I love how you stacked them up in that last shot, too tempting!

  35. Rookie Qookie

    February 17, 2012 at 3:38 AM

    Tarts are a big hit at my place too ๐Ÿ™‚ Yeah celebrating a special day can be paradoxical..

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