appetite magazine
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
  1. 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.
  2. Bring it all together into a ball, knead it a little and leave to rest in the fridge while you deal with the filling.
  3. For the filling, finely crush the seeds from the cardamom pods in a pestle and mortar and mix with the caster sugar.
  4. Peel 2 large cooking apples, keeping the peel, and slice thinly.
  5. Roll out the pastry and line a 25cm tart tin.
  6. Arrange apples in neat concentric circles and evenly sprinkle over the cardamom sugar.
  7. Bake in the oven at 160C/Gas 3 for 30 mins.
  8. 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.
  9. Use a brush to paint it (minus rind bits) over the top of the tart when it is ready and cooled.
Recipe by appetite magazine at https://www.appetitemag.co.uk/apple-and-cardamom-tart/