Rustic Apple-Pear Tartlets
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: French
Serves: 6-8
Ingredients
  • DOUGH:
  • 1 ½ cup of wheat pastry flour (plus ¼ cup for dusting)
  • ½ cup garbanzo bean flour (also called besan or chana in Indian stores)
  • ½ cup vegetable oil (Canola ok but not olive oil!)
  • 4-5 Tbl iced water
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 2Tbl sugar
  • FILLING:
  • 3 ripe pears (or mix of pears and apples is fine too)
  • 1-2 cups of sweetened apple sauce
  • Juice from ½ lemon
  • 1 tsp arrowroot* (or 2 tsp of cornstarch*)
  • Sugar for dusting
Instructions
  1. Heat up the oven to 390 F.
  2. Ligthly oil a cookie sheet.
  3. Put a few ice cubes in a small glass.
  4. Combine the flour, salt and sugar in a bowl.
  5. In another bowl, combine the oil and the iced water.
  6. Mix wet ingredients into the flour mixture.
  7. Make a ball and put into a plastic bag. Refrigerate for 15mn.
  8. Peel, core and slice the pears and apple. Place in a bowl and sprinkle with natural sugar.
  9. Juice the lemon and mix the arrowroot in it. Pour it over the fruit and gently toss to coat evenly.
  10. Take out the dough from the fridge, dust a surface and gently roll it. It could stick to the pin, so be gentle.
  11. To make individual tartlets, roll out the dough thinly, there is no need to prebake. Just take a jar or the lid of a glass jar and cut out circles.
  12. Press down and make clean edges on the sides.
  13. Spoon a little apple sauce in the middle (sprinkle a little sugar if the apple are not sweetened), then a few thin slices of apples and pears.
  14. Sprinkle again with a little sugar and place on a greased cookie sheet.
  15. Bake at 390F for 15mn until golden.
  16. Remove from oven and put an even thin layer of apricot or peach jam over it while it is cooling off. This will create a nice glaze for your tartlets.
  17. Makes between 6-8 tartlets depending on the size of the tartlet you make.
Recipe by Kind Cooking at https://kindcooking.com/rustic-apple-pear-tartlets/