Gooseberry-Blueberry Tartlettes

Name: Gooseberry-Blueberry Tartlettes
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters (1 stick) butter (1 tablespoon per tartlet), plus extra for brushing tin; 227 grams (2 sticks) butter, very cold, cut in small pieces; 2 pints blueberries, wash and dried; 1 large egg white, for egg wash; 79 milliliters all-purpose flour; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 pint gooseberries, stems picked off, washed and dried; 8 servings Finely ground cornmeal, for sprinkling on tin; 59 milliliters ice water, or as needed; 1 lemon, juiced; 1 pinch Pinch freshly grated nutmeg; 1 teaspoon salt; 59 milliliters sugar; 1 Tbsp sugar; 473 milliliters sugar

Gooseberry-Blueberry Tartlettes is a vegetarian hor d'oeuvre. This recipe makes 8 servings with 1092 calories, 9g of protein, and 33g of fat each. This recipe covers 15% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up flour, sugar, blueberries, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Instructions

Make the tart dough: Put in the work bowl of a food processor, the flour, butter, salt and sugar. Pulse quickly until the butter is the size of peas.

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Butter

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Peas

Salt

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Food Processor

Bowl

Add very cold, ice water in a small stream until the dough just comes together. Empty the work bowl out onto waxed paper and halve the dough. Using the ends of the paper, shape into 2 balls. Wrap in plastic wrap and place in refrigerator until ready for use.

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Water

Dough

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Bowl

Pour sugar in heavy skillet, cook over low heat until sugar turns a medium brown.

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Sugar

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Frying Pan

Pour caramelized sugar in a 10-inch aluminum tin or silcone mat to cool and harden. After it is cooled, break into pieces of 1-to 1 1/2-inch big. Set aside, it will be used to bake with berries.

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Berries

Sugar

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Oven

Make fruit filling: In a large bowl, place cleaned gooseberries and blueberries.

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Gooseberries

Blueberries

Fruit

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Bowl

Pour lemon juice on top.

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Lemon Juice

Sprinkle sugar, flour and nutmeg on top of the berries (Be careful not to mix, just sprinkle on top, or fruit will be mushy if over-handled).

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Berries

Nutmeg

All Purpose Flour

Fruit

Sugar

To assemble tartlettes: Take 8 small pie tins, brush with butter and liberally sprinkle with cornmeal.

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Cornmeal

Butter

Cut dough into 8 equal pieces and put 7 back in the refrigerator (must be kept cold) roll out the dough into a 4-inch circle, it should be quite thick, you don't want it too thin.

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Dough

Roll

Place disk in pie tin and repeat until all 8 are done.

Place all 8 tarts on sheet pan.

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Frying Pan

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

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Oven

Brush bottom of dough shell with egg whites. Gently scoop out the berries with the flour-sugar mixture on top into the shells.

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Egg Whites

Berries

Pasta Shells

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Place a piece of the caramelized sugar on top of berries. Fold up the sides in a circle, do not close up completely, leaving an opening. Put 1 tablespoon butter on top of each tartlette.

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Berries

Butter

Sugar

Brush egg white on the exposed dough and bake for 45 minutes.

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Egg Whites

Dough

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Oven

Serve with confectioners' sugar dusted on top.

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