Ingredients
- 1½ cups of flour
- ½ cup of hazelnut flour (Hazelnut Estate)
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 125gm butter, cold, diced into small cubes
- 2 large egg yolks, whisked with 3 tbsp ice water (Agreeable Nature)
- 500gms strawberries, sliced (Janefield Hydroponics)
- Good handful of basil leaves, roughly chopped larger leaves and keep the small ones as they are (Janefield Hydroponics)
- ½ cup of lemon juice
- ½ cup of sugar
- 2 tablespoons of good quality jam
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Baking
Strawberry Basil Free-form Tart
Method
- Make the crust mix the flours, salt and sugar together
- Mix in the cubes of butter until it resembles breadcrumbs, then mix in the egg yolks
- Don’t overwork it, just form a dough and press flat and wrap in cling film
- Chill in the fridge for at least half an hour
- Filling: Mix the remaining ingredients together (strawberry/basil/lemon etc
- ) and let sit for a least an hour
- Preheat the oven to 180degreesC
- Roll out the dough
- You can make one large tart or cut dough into 6 equal portions
- Divide the strawberry mixture into portions, if making more than one, then add to the centre of the dough, with the jam
- Fold the dough around the strawberries and add any leftover liquid to the centre of the tart
- This is a rustic looking tart, so you don’t need to worry if the edges are not neat
- Bake for 20-30 mins until the crust is golden