Description
A stunning lemon jam and merengue tart from Elisa Gennari.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 jar of lemon jam
- 2 egg yolk
- 120gr butter or shortening (room temperature)
- 1 pinch of salt
- 2 tbsp of sugar
- 300gr all purpose flour + 50gr to dust the board
- 1/2 tsp of baking soda
- For the merengue:
- 2 egg whites
- the same weight of the 2 egg whites of caster sugar
- the same weight of the 2 egg whites of confectionary’s sugar
Instructions
- To make the pastry, sift the flour into a large bowl. Add salt, sugar and stir well. Tear the butter with your fingers into the bowl and mix it with the flour mixture until it becomes crumbly.
- Make a hole in the center and add the beaten yolks. Mix evenly until it becomes soft and smooth. This is a crucial step: you shouldn’t knead the dough too long otherwise it will become too hard when cooked. Let the pastry sit in the fridge for half an hour, covered with a plastic wrap.
- Remove the pastry from the fridge and flatten it with a rolling pin. This recipe is enough for a 24cm diameter round shaped baking tray, if you want you can also use a muffin mould to make mini tart. Lay the flattened dough in the tray and fill it with the lemon jam (you could also use lemon curd), cook in a preheated oven at 190/200°C for about 40 minutes.
- As the tart cools down, prepare the merengue: whisk the egg whites with the caster sugar using an electric whisk. (the egg whites should be at room temperature). As it starts to set, add a little at a time the confectionary’s sugar and keep on whisk until you get a firm mixture (like whipped cream). Put the merengue in a sac-a-poche and decorate the tart. Put the tart back in the oven at 50/80°C for 15 minutes. Broil it for 3 minutes to golden the merengue on top of the tarte. Serve it cool.