Fig-Honey Tarts

Name: Fig-Honey Tarts
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 9
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 158 milliliters coarsely chopped hazelnuts; 6 Tbsps honey; 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel; 9 servings Nut shortbread crusts or crust; 605 grams About ripe black-skinned figs; 6 Tbsps whipping cream

Fig-Honey Tarts requires roughly 45 minutes from start to finish. One serving contains 250 calories, 3g of protein, and 16g of fat. This gluten free, primal, and vegetarian recipe serves 9. Only a few people really liked this dessert. Head to the store and pick up nut shortbread crusts, lemon peel, whipping cream, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Bake nut shortbread crusts (set individual crusts in a 12- by 15-inch pan) in a 350 oven (or a 325 convection oven) until golden at edges, 20 to 25 minutes.

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Shortbread Cookies

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Oven

Frying Pan

While crusts bake, make nut sauce. In a bowl, mix honey, whipping cream, hazelnuts, and lemon peel.

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Whipping Cream

Lemon Peel

Hazelnuts

Honey

Sauce

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Bowl

Rinse figs, trim stems, and cut into pieces that are about 1 inch wide. Arrange figs, tips and cut side up, in hot crusts or crust.

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Crust

Figs

Spoon nut sauce equally over fruit.

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Fruit

Sauce

Bake in a 350 oven (or a 325 convection oven) until sauce is bubbling and crust is deep golden, 20 to 24 minutes for individual tarts, 50 to 55 minutes for a large tart.

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Sauce

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Oven

Cool in pan or pans on a rack at least 30 minutes. If making ahead, chill airtight up to 1 day.

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Frying Pan

Remove pan rims.

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Frying Pan

Serve with ice cream

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Ice Cream

Nut shortbread crusts: In a food processor, mince 1/3 cup hazelnuts with 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour and 1/4 cup sugar.

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All Purpose Flour

Shortbread Cookies

Hazelnuts

Ground Meat

Sugar

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Food Processor

Add 1/2 cup (1/4 lb.) butter or margarine, in chunks, and whirl until fine crumbs form.

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Butter

Add 1 large egg yolk and whirl until dough holds together. (Or mince nuts with a knife, then put in a bowl. Rub in flour, butter, and sugar until fine crumbs form; then, with a fork, mix in yolk. Pat into a ball.) In 6 tart pans (4 1/2 in. wide) with removable rims, or an 11-inch tart pan, press dough evenly over bottom and up sides, flush with rims.

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Egg Yolk