Recipe: Pineapple Tarts

Pineapple Tarts

Pineapple filling (to be made a day earlier)

2 pineapples

200g castor sugar

2cm piece cinnamon stick

2 segments of one star anise

2 cloves

1 tbsp lemon or lime juice

Pastry dough

340g plain flour

½ tsp salt

1 tbsp icing sugar

225g butter, cubed

1 egg yolk

25ml iced-cold water

½ tsp vanilla essence

1 beaten egg, for glazing

To make the jam, grate the pineapple coarsely. Combine the grated pineapple with the rest of the ingredients in a heavy-based saucepan and cook over a moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until mixture is almost dry. Set aside to cool.

Pastry dough

Put sifted flour, salt and sugar in a mixing bowl. Rub in butter until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Beat in the egg yolk and add ice-cold water and essence. Mix well to form a dough. Place in a plastic bag and chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Roll pastry out to 0.5 cm thickness on a lightly-floured tabletop and cut out rounds with a tart cutter. Fill each piece of cut-out pastry with pineapple jam filling. Pinch a small neat frill around the edging. Cut thin strips of pastry to form a lattice on top of each tart. Glaze the strips with beaten egg.

Place tarts on a greased baking tray and bake in preheated oven at 180°C for 15 minutes. Reduce the temperature to 170°C and continue to bake for another 10 minutes or until golden. Turn tarts out to cool on a wire rack before storing in air-tight containers.

 

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