Simple, but very beautiful and tasty holiday dessert. Tartlets of tender and crumbly shortcrust pastry, filled with a delicate and fragrant orange Kurdish. You can decorate the cakes with whipped cream, fresh berries, pieces of fruit, or prepare an Italian meringue for decoration and sprinkle with candied fruit.
Tartlets are prepared very quickly, the dough for them can be mixed in just 5 minutes. Cooking an orange Kurd also does not take much of your time.
I advise you to prepare this holiday dessert piece by piece (separately bake tartlets, cook the Kurdish separately), and you can assemble and decorate the dessert before serving on the holiday table.
- Cooking time: 1 hour
- Servings: 6
Ingredients for tartlets with orange kurd
Dough for tartlets:
- 80 g butter;
- 150 g wheat flour;
- 15 g sugar;
- 1-2 raw yolks;
- 2 g of salt;
Orange Kurd:
- 1 orange;
- 3 mandarins;
- 1 lime;
- 120 g of sugar;
- 120 g butter;
- 30 g potato or corn starch;
- 1 egg;
For decoration:
- whipped cream and fresh cranberries;
The method of cooking orange kart tartlets
Making tartlets from shortbread dough. We mix hands in a deep bowl with cold butter, some sugar (you can not add), wheat flour, salt and raw yolks. You need to knead quickly so that the oil does not melt from the warmth of your hands. Ready dough set in a cold place for 15-25 minutes.
Sprinkle the board with flour, roll out the dough in a uniform layer of about 6 millimeters, cut into equal pieces. Cut the appropriate size can be a glass of thin glass or cut into rectangles with a knife.
Fill the forms for tartlets with dough, gently press it, filling in the voids, cut off the excess dough at the edges. We cut the molds filled with dough into the refrigerator again, and in the meantime we turn on the oven to warm up to 180 degrees.
We take tartlets from the fridge, put small pieces of parchment or foil on the dough, put beans on them, peas or any cereal, this method does not allow the dough to rise and the tartlets retain their correct shape.
Bake for 20 minutes, cool, remove from the mold.
Making an orange kurd with lime and tangerines. In a saucepan with a thick bottom, pour a little water, add the peeled orange, tangerines and lime. With orange and lime, remove the zest, add to the rest of the ingredients.
A step-by-step recipe with photos of orange Kurd with lime and tangerines can be read by clicking on the link.
Fruits are cooked for 10 minutes, chop with a blender, filter. Combine fruit puree with sugar, yolks and starch. We bring the mass to a thickening on a small fire, then mix with butter and let cool.
Fill the tartlets with an orange Kurd, so that the cream fills almost the entire basket.
Fully cooled cakes before serving, decorate with whipped cream. If you decorate tartlets with whipped cream in advance, they can become blurred and the cake will lose its attractive appearance.
Decorate tartlets with fresh cranberries, sprinkle with lime and orange zest. A festive dessert of delicate short pastry with an orange Kurd is ready. Enjoy your meal!
