Apple and cardamom tart
Ingredients
- Pastry:
- 225g plain flour
- 120g soft butter
- 1 egg
- pinch salt
- 1-2 tbsp water
- Filling:
- 3 green cardamom pods
- 100g caster sugar
- 2 large cooking apples
- Glaze:
- reserved apple peel
- 3 tbsp caster sugar
- 2 pieces lemon peel
Method
- For the pastry, mix the flour with the butter until it resembles fine breadcrumbs, add beaten egg, a pinch of salt and a little water, starting with about 1 tbsp.
- Bring it all together into a ball, knead it a little and leave to rest in the fridge while you deal with the filling.
- For the filling, finely crush the seeds from the cardamom pods in a pestle and mortar and mix with the caster sugar.
- Peel 2 large cooking apples, keeping the peel, and slice thinly.
- Roll out the pastry and line a 25cm tart tin.
- Arrange apples in neat concentric circles and evenly sprinkle over the cardamom sugar.
- Bake in the oven at 160C/Gas 3 for 30 mins.
- Finally, to make a glaze to brush over the finished tart, melt the caster sugar in a small pan with all the left over apple peel and some lemon rind until you get a sugary syrup.
- Use a brush to paint it (minus rind bits) over the top of the tart when it is ready and cooled.
