Salted Honey and Apple Tart

This dessert is ideal for the autumn and fall season. Prepare the day before or on the day for easy entertaining.

The full recipe is suitable for a 24cm dish and serves 6-8.

Ingredients

Pastry

1 pack of readymade shortcrust pastry

or

250g Plain Flour

110g Cubed Cold Butter

4-6 tbsp Cold Water

The filling 

125g Melted Butter

125g Caster Sugar

28g Fine Semolina

340g Honey

5 Medium Eggs

175g Double Cream

1 tsp Vanilla Extract or 1 pod

2 tsp Maldon Sea Salt Flakes

2 Small Eating Apples

2 tbsp Brown Sugar

25g Green Pistachios, lightly roasted and crushed

Method

To make the pastry

1. Using a food processor, blend the cold butter with the plain flour until it resembles breadcrumbs.
2. Add the water and bring the dough together quite quickly. Avoid over mixing or kneading the dough.
3. Wrap in cling film or place in an airtight container and rest for 30 minutes in the fridge.

Continue with the below method if you have made pastry or start here if you are using ready made pastry

1. Lightly grease and flour the dish and set aside. Flour the surface and roll out the cold pastry large enough to fit the dish or until it is about 3mm thick evenly all over.
2. Line the tart case, trim the edges, fill with baking paper and baking beans and blind bake at 160C Fan for 25-30 minutes or until evenly cooked and lightly golden. Remove the baking beans and bake for another 5 minutes to finish off if needed.
3. Allow to cool, turn the oven down to 150C fan and prepare the honey filling.

 For the filling:

1. In a standing mixer with the whisk attached, combine the melted butter, sugar, flour and semolina.
2. Whisk together until thickened.
3. Add the honey and vanilla and whisk again for two minutes.
4. Add the eggs and whisk again.
5. Turn the mixer down to the slowest speed. Then add the cream slowly, until it is just combined.
6. Pour the pie filling into the pastry case and bake on 150C fan for 40-50 minutes, or until the filling is wobbly but set.
7. As soon as the pie comes out the oven, sprinkle with the Maldon sea salt flakes and allow to cool naturally.
8. Meanwhile, remove the core from the apples and slice thinly. Toss in a bowl with 1 tbsp brown sugar. Lay out on a tray and roast in the oven for 10-15 minutes until tender but firm. Turn throughout cooking.
9. When ready to serve either top the tart with apple slices and sprinkle with the pistachio or slice per portion and serve alongside. You could also add some sliced figs.

Enjoy!

This recipe has been kindly given to us by Social Pantry