Tarte au citron
by Emmanuele Forcone
Custard
500 ml cream
500 ml milk
300 g regular sugar
120 g flour
360 g egg yolks
120 g butter
1 u vanilla pod
1 p grated lemon zest
Bring to the boil the mikl with the cream and the aromas.
Pour on the batter made with egg yolks, sugar and flour. Bring to the boil, remove from the heat, add the butter and emulsify very well. Spread in a very thin layer and put in the blast chiller.
Lemon cream
150 g whole eggs
175 g regular sugar
140 g lemon juice
40 g yuzu puree
7 g gelatin
35 g water for gelatin
25 g butter
650 g custard
3g lime zest
Mix briefly the eggs with the sugar, add the lemon juice and the lime zest, cook to 82℃. Add the hydrated gelatin. Pour on the butter and emulsify well. Fill the mini tart shells with a pastry bag and put in the blast chiller.
Italian meringue
125 g egg whites
15 g caster sugar
57 g water
230 g regular sugar
Cook the water and the regular sugar to 121℃. Pour the caster sugar in a steady stream onto the egg whites while they are whipping. Whisk until cooled. Pipe on the mini tart.
Thin almond sponge cake
670 g whole eggs
460 g regular sugar
460 g almond powder
1 u vanilla pod
140g flour
100 g melted butter
500 g egg whites
250 g regular sugar
4 g powdered egg whites
Whip the eggs with sugar and almond powder for about 20 minutes. In the meanwhile, sift the flour twice and melt the butter. When the mass is whipped, add the flour and the butter previously mixed with a part of the whipped eggs. Lighten with the egg whites whipped with sugar. Spread at a thickness of 5 mm and cook it at 210℃ for about 10 minutes. Take out of the oven and put in the blast chiller immediately.
Specil almond shortcrust pastry
360 g butter
270 g icing sugar
100 g almond powder
150 g whole eggs
180 g pastry flour
525 g pastry flour
6 g salt
1u vanilla pod
Mix the butter with salt, icing sugar, almond powder, vanilla, eggs and the 180g of flour. Once botarned a smooth dough, add the remaining 525g of flour very quickly. Leave to rest overnight. The day after shape as wanted and cook at 160℃ or until well golden.
Starwberry and yuzu jelly
470g strawberry puree
30g yuzu puree
40g sugar
40g dextrose
12g gelatin
60g water for gelatin
Melt a part of the strawberry puree with the sugar and the gelatin sheets, add to the remaining purees and put in the fridge.
Montage
Inside the shortcrust tart, put the yuzu and strawberry gel. After this, put the thin almond sponge and add the lemon and yuzu cream. Finish on top with the Italian meringue and the fresh raspberries.