Plum tarte Tatin
Description
Homemade baking for tea. For anyone who thinks French cuisine is always impossibly complicated and made from obscure ingredients, this recipe is sure to surprise them. A French plum tarte Tatin is an incredibly simple tart that takes only 4 ingredients and just 50 minutes to make, 35 of which the tart spends in the oven. In practice, it’s a quick pie, yet the tart tastes genuinely good. In short, this recipe deserves a place in your own lineup of go-to recipes :)
Instructions
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Step 1
Take a bowl and sift the flour into it.
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Step 2
Take the butter out of the refrigerator and cut it into cubes.
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Step 3
Rub the flour and butter together until crumbly. You can do this with a knife, your fingers, or a blender—whichever you prefer.
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Step 4
Add ice-cold water (about 100 ml) to the butter-flour crumble mixture and start kneading the dough.
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Step 5
Shape the dough into a ball like this.
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Step 6
Roll out the dough to a thickness of about 0.5 cm. In the original tart recipe, the dough should be refrigerated for half an hour, but once when I was in a hurry I skipped this step—and I didn’t notice any substantial difference.
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Step 7
Now we make the filling. Melt the butter in a pan, add the sugar, and heat until the sugar turns golden.
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Step 8
Pour the caramel into the bottom of the tin you’ll use to bake the tart. Arrange the plums halved and pitted in the caramel.
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Step 9
Cover the plums with a sheet of dough, tuck the edges inward into the dish. Place in the oven and bake for 35–40 minutes at 190°C.
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Step 10
Let the finished tart cool slightly, then cut into slices and serve.