Creamy Ricotta Tart with Pine Nuts

Name: Creamy Ricotta Tart with Pine Nuts
Prep time: 2 h 35 min
Cook time: 2 h 35 min
Total time: 2 h 35 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 170 grams cream cheese, at room temperature; 3 larges egg yolks; 2 larges eggs; 355 milliliters all-purpose flour; 142 grams 1/2 cups pine nuts (about , toasted; 237 milliliters ricotta cheese; 1 pinch Pinch salt; 4 Tbsps sugar; 113 grams stick unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly; 118 milliliters water

Creamy Ricotta Tart with Pine Nuts is a vegetarian recipe with 12 servings. One portion of this dish contains about 8g of protein, 25g of fat, and a total of 329 calories. This recipe covers 10% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 2 hours and 35 minutes. If you have flour, pine nuts, eggs, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

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Oven

In the bowl of a food processor, pulse flour, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 3/4 cup of pine nuts, and salt until finely ground.

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Pine Nuts

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

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Food Processor

Bowl

Add the butter. Pulse dough just until it comes together.

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Butter

Dough

Place the dough into an 11-inch diameter tart pan with a removable bottom and press down to cover the bottom and sides of the pan. Refrigerate until the dough is firm, about 30 minutes.

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Dough

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Tart Form

Frying Pan

Line the tart shell with aluminum foil and fill with pie weights or dried beans.

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Dried Beans

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Aluminum Foil

Bake the tart shell in the lower third of the oven until just set, about 25 minutes. Carefully remove the foil and pie weights.

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Oven

Aluminum Foil

Bake until the tart shell is lightly golden, about 10 minutes. Cool completely.

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Oven

Combine the remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar with the water in a small saucepan over low heat. You don't want to boil the water, you just want to heat it so that the sugar can dissolve thoroughly. Stir until the sugar dissolves and remove from heat.

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Sugar

Water

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Sauce Pan

In the bowl of a food processor, pulse the ricotta cheese and cream cheese until smooth.

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Ricotta Cheese

Cream Cheese

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Food Processor

Bowl

Add the eggs and egg yolks, 1 at a time, and process until smooth. With the machine running, add the sugar syrup in a thin steady stream and process until smooth.

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Simple Syrup

Egg Yolk

Egg

Pour the custard into the tart shell and bake until the filling is almost set, about 20 to 25 minutes. Scatter the remaining 3/4 cup of toasted pine nuts atop the filling.

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Pine Nuts

Custard