Blueberry Almond Breakfast Tart

Blueberry Almond Breakfast Tart
Blueberry Almond Breakfast Tart is a vegetarian dessert. This recipe serves 8. One serving contains 717 calories, 9g of protein, and 24g of fat. This recipe covers 24% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 3 hours and 5 minutes. Head to the store and pick up cornstarch, egg yolk, currant jelly plus 1 tablespoon water, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

1
Add the sugar, pinch of salt and 2 (1/4-pints) blueberries to a saucepan. Zest the lemon over the top, then juice about 1 tablespoon and add to the berries. Give it a stir. Put on the stove about medium heat and cook until the berries release their juices and looks like jelly or jam.
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While that's happening, whisk your egg yolks and cornstarch together in small bowl. Stir into the berries and boil until nice and thick. Set aside.
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For the crust: Put your flour into a food processor, add the 1/2 cup almonds, the sugar, a pinch of salt and pulse until it's a fine meal.
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Add the egg yolk and cold butter (Cold butter makes the crust nice and flaky.)
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Add the extract and process the mixture until it turns into a little ball of dough.
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Press the dough nice and evenly into a 9-inch tart pan with a removable bottom. Freeze 1 hour or so to firm it up. Freezing will also help make a nice crispy tart after baking.
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7
Put a piece of parchment on the dough and fill it with dried beans.
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Bake for 12 minutes or so. This is called blind baking, which keeps the crust nice and flat and leaves plenty of room for the filling.
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9
Remove the beans and parchment and cook the crust until it's nice and golden brown, another 16 minutes.
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Let cool.
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Heat the black currant jelly and 1 tablespoon water in a saucepan to melt it.
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Pour the blueberry filling in the tart and spread out to the edges. Mound the remaining fresh blueberries over top.
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13
Brush the top with the jelly glaze. Take the remaining toasted almonds and sprinkle them around the edges.
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14
Place in the fridge to firm up.
15
Remove the tart bottom, slice and serve.
DifficultyExpert
Ready In3 hrs, 5 m.
Servings8
Health Score13
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