Roast Nectarine Tart Food

NECTARINE TART

Steps:

• Blend flour, salt and 2 tablespoons sugar in a bowl or food processor. Dice 8 tablespoons of the butter. Use a pastry blender or two knives to blend flour mixture and butter, or pulse them together in a food processor to make a crumbly mixture. Beat the egg yolk with 3 tablespoons cold water. Dribble it over the flour mixture, then stir or pulse slowly until the mixture starts clumping together. A bit more water may be necessary. Gather dough in a loose ball and form into a disk on a lightly floured surface.
• Heat oven to 375 degrees. Roll out dough and line a 10-inch loose-bottom tart pan. Line pastry with a sheet of foil and spread pastry weights or dry beans on top. Bake 12 minutes. Meanwhile, melt the remaining butter, cooking it on low until it turns a light nut brown. Pit fruit (except figs) and cut in eighths or, if fruit is small, fourths. After 12 minutes, remove foil and weights from pastry. Return pastry to oven and continue baking until it is lightly browned, another 8 to 10 minutes. Remove pastry from oven and increase temperature to 400 degrees.
• Brush pastry with preserves. Arrange fruit in tight concentric circles, starting by placing it around the perimeter, skin side down, against the vertical sides of the pastry and standing it up as much as possible. Brush with melted butter. Dust with remaining sugar. Bake about 35 to 40 minutes, until edges have browned but fruit has not collapsed. Cool before serving with crème fraîche.

NECTARINE TART

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Peel the nectarines and cut into slices. Toss with the lemon juice and a few pinches of sugar if the fruit is not too sweet. If the fruit is sweet and fresh skip the sugar. Set aside.
• Cream the sugar and butter in a bowl until light and fluffy. Add the flour, baking powder, salt, and eggs and beat until combined.
• Spoon batter into a 10 inch pie pan (it will look like there is not enough batter but there is). Place the nectarine slices on top of the batter packing them in tightly. Sprinkle lightly with lemon juice and some sugar, depending on the sweetness of the fruit.
• Bake 50 to 60 minutes until golden brown. Cool. Refrigerate if desired. Sprinkle a bit of powdered sugar on top if desired.

ROASTED NECTARINES WITH LABNEH, HERBS, AND HONEY

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425°. Line a large baking tray with baking paper.
• Place the nectarine halves cut side up on the prepared tray, then drizzle each with a little olive oil and season generously with pepper. Bake for 25-30 minutes until the edges of the fruit are browned and the flesh is cooked through and tender. Remove from the oven and leave to cool.
• Select a large platter and spread the labneh or strained Greek yogurt all over the surface, then arrange the roasted nectarines on top. Drizzle with a little olive oil, season with a little salt and sprinkle over the toasted flaked almonds, followed by the oregano and pul biber. Drizzle all over with the honey and, finally, scatter over the mint ribbons. Take to the table to serve.

NECTARINE ROSE TARTS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly grease a muffin pan with 12 cavities with nonstick spray.
• In a medium bowl, toss the sliced nectarines, lemon juice and almond extract if using to combine. In a medium pot, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the sugar and cinnamon and stir until the sugar is completely dissolved. Pour the syrup over the nectarines and toss gently a few times to combine. The heat of the syrup should soften the fruit slightly.
• Using flour if necessary, roll out the puff pastry sheets to a 9-by-12-inch rectangle. Cut across the 9-inch side, cutting the dough into six pieces, each 12 inches long and about 1 1/2 inches wide.
• Arrange about 10 slices of nectarine along one of the long edges of the dough. Overlap each piece of fruit as you lay them down. Gently fold the excess dough below it up to encase the base of the fruit slices.
• Starting from one of the shorter ends, gently roll up the dough and fruit into a spiral and place it, with the skins of the fruit facing up, into the prepared muffin pan.
• Bake until the crust is deeply golden brown, 25 to 30 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes inside the pan, then use a small offset spatula to remove the tarts to a cooling rack.
• In a small pot, heat the jam over medium heat until it is soft and fluid. Use a pastry brush to generously brush the surface of each tart.

ROAST NECTARINE TART

Steps:

• Grease 19cm*27cm loose-based flan tin. make pastry.
• Pastry:.
• Blend or process flour, sugar and chopped butter until combined.Add egg yolk and enough of the water to make ingredients just come back together.
• Knead dough on floured surface until smooth. Cover; refrigerate 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to moderate (180°/160 fan-forced).
• Roll dough between sheets of baking paper until large enough to line prepared tin.
• Ease dough into prepared tin, press into sides;trim edges.
• Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes. Cover pastry case with baking paper, fill with dried beans or rice; place on oven tray.
• Bake, uncovered, 10minutes, remove paper and beans; bake, uncovered, about 10 minutes or until pastry case is browned lightly. cool.
• Make creme pattissiere while pastry is cooling.
• Creme pattissiere:.
• Combine cream, milk and sugar in medium saucepan. Split vanilla bean in half lengthways, scrape seeds into saucepan, then add pod; bring to a boil. Remove from heat;discard pod.
• Beat egg yolk in small bowl and mix until thick and creamy.beat in cornflour. gradually beat in hot creme mixture. strain mixture into same cleaned saucepan; stir over heat until mixture boils and thickens. Remove from heat; whisk in butter.
• Cover surface of custard with plastic wrap; cool to room temperature,.
• Increase oven temperature to hot(220°C/200°C fan-forced).
• Place nectarines in single layer in large shallow baking dish; sprinkle with juice and sugar.
• Roast, uncovered, about 20 minutes or until nectarines are soft; cool.
• Meanwhile, spoon creme pattisiere into pastry case, cover; refrigerate about 30 minutes or until firm. Top with nectarines.

RUSTIC NECTARINE TART

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Place folded pastry on a lightly floured work surface; roll out to a 12-by-14-inch rectangle. Trim edges to make even.
• Place pastry on a parchment-lined baking sheet. With a sharp paring knife, lightly score dough to form a 1-inch border. Using a fork, prick dough inside the border every 1/2 inch. Sprinkle the border with 2 teaspoons sugar. Refrigerate until slightly firm, about 10 minutes (or up to 1 day, covered with plastic wrap).
• Bake chilled dough until puffed and golden brown, 10 to 15 minutes. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, gently toss sliced nectarines with 1 tablespoon flour, remaining 1/3 cup sugar, and salt.
• With a fork, press dough inside border to make level; arrange nectarines in rows on top (or pile nectarines on top and then spread evenly).
• Bake, loosely tented with foil, until nectarines have softened, about 10 minutes.
• Brush nectarines with warm jelly. Let cool to room temperature, about 20 minutes. To serve, cut into 8 pieces.

NECTARINE AND BLUEBERRY TART

Steps:

• To make tart, place flour, salt and sugar in processor and pulse several times.
• Cut butter into tiny pieces and pulse until mixture looks like bread crumbs.
• Add water and bring dough into ball.
• Knead lightly and place in plastic and chill at least 20 minutes.
• In large bowl whisk sugar with cornstarch and gentle toss in nectarines (and optional blueberries.
• Sprinkle with lemon juice. Roll out dough on lightly floured board to about a 12-inch round.
• Fold in half and then half again and place on ungreased baking sheet. Unfold.
• Pour fruit and juice into pastry and mound in middle. Gently fold up edges around filling leaving 6-inch opening in middle. Pinch folds together and brush with water sprinkle on 1 Tbsp of sugar.
• Bake in preheated 375°F oven 35-45 minutes until golden.
• Note: You can easily substitute blackberries for blueberries in this recipe.