Lime Curd Tart

Name: Lime Curd Tart
Prep time: 3 h 45 min
Cook time: 3 h 45 min
Total time: 3 h 45 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 extra larges eggs at room temperature; 414 milliliters all-purpose flour; 4 limes at room temperature; 0 teaspoons salt; 1 pinch Pinch salt; 118 milliliters sugar; 355 milliliters sugar; 113 grams unsalted butter at room temperature; 177 milliliters unsalted butter at room temperature; 1 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Lime Curd Tart is a vegetarian dessert. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains around 5g of protein, 25g of fat, and a total of 472 calories. This recipe serves 10. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 3 hours and 45 minutes. If you have eggs, butter, sugar, 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 an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix the butter and sugar together until they are just combined.

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Butter

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Add the vanilla. In a medium bowl, sift together the flour and salt, then add them to the butter-and-sugar mixture.

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Vanilla

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

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Bowl

Mix on low speed until the dough starts to come together. Dump onto a surface dusted with flour and shape into a flat disk. Press the dough into a 10-inch-round or 9-inch-square false-bottom tart pan, making sure that the finished edge is flat. Chill until firm.

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Dough

All Purpose Flour

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Tart Form

Butter 1 side of a square of aluminum foil to fit inside the tart and place it, buttered side down, on the pastry. Fill with beans or rice.

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Butter

Beans

Rice

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Aluminum Foil

Bake for 20 minutes.

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Oven

Remove the foil and beans, prick the tart all over with the tines of a fork, and bake again for 20 to 25 minutes more, or until lightly browned. Allow to cool to room temperature.

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Beans

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Oven

Aluminum Foil

Remove the zest of 4 limes with a vegetable peeler or zester, being careful to avoid the white pith. Squeeze the limes to make 1/2 cup of juice and set the juice aside.

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Vegetable

Juice

Lime

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Peeler

Zester

Put the zest in a food processor fitted with a steel blade.

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Food Processor

Add the sugar and process for 2 to 3 minutes, until the zest is very finely minced. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter with the sugar and lime zest.

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Lime Zest

Butter

Cream

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Add-- the eggs, 1 at a time, and then add the lime juice and salt.

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Lime Juice

Egg

Salt

Mix until combined.

Pour the mixture into a 2-quart saucepan and cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until thickened, about 10 minutes. The lime curd will thicken at about 175 degrees F, or just below a simmer.

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Lime Curd