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strawberry and ricotta tart

crostata di fragole e ricotta


TOTAL TIME: 1 hour, 30 minutes

MAKES: 8 servings

Ingredients

  • CRUST
  • 1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour plus more for dusting
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • Pinch fine sea salt
  • 1 stick ( 1/2 cup) unsalted butter, cold, cut into small pieces, plus more for greasing pans
  •  
  • FILLING
  • 1 1/4 cups fresh whole-milk ricotta cheese
  • 4 large egg yolks
  • 1/2 cup sugar 
  • 1/2 teaspoon orange flower water
  • Finely grated zest of 1 lemon
  • 3/4 pound strawberries, sliced
  • Confectioners sugar for dusting
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  • SPECIAL EQUIPMENT: a (9 1/2-inch) tart pan with removable bottom
 

Instructions

FOR CRUST: In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar and salt. Add butter and rub mixture between fingers until it resembles coarse meal. Make a well in center, add 2 tablespoons water and mix together to form a dough. Knead dough 3 to 4 times, flatten into a disc, wrap in plastic and chill at least 1 hour or overnight.

Butter a 9 1/2-inch tart pan. On a lightly floured work surface, roll out dough to a 12-inch round. Fit dough into tart pan, pressing into edges; chill until firm, about 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, heat oven to 400º with rack in middle. Line tart pan with parchment paper, leaving at least 1-inch overhang. Fill with pie weights or dried beans. Bake until edges are pale golden, about 10 minutes. Remove parchment and weights; continue to bake until bottom of crust is pale golden and edges are beginning to brown, about 5 minutes more. Cool shell completely on wire rack.

FOR FILLING: Reduce oven temperature to 350º. In a large bowl, whisk cheese until smooth. Add egg yolks, sugar, orange flower water and lemon zest; whisk together to combine.

Spread filling into cooled tart shell; bake, rotating once halfway through, until just set in center and a cake tester inserted in center of tart comes out clean, about 35 minutes. Transfer pan to a wire rack and let cool completely.

Arrange strawberries in concentric circles atop tart; dust edge of crust with confectioners sugar. Remove tart from pan. 

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