Coconut Tart
This delightful coconut and spice tart is a symphony of flavors and textures that will impress your taste buds. The aromatic blend of ground cinnamon and crushed cardamom pods mixed with desiccated coconut and sugar creates a luscious filling that pairs perfectly with the flaky all-butter shortcrust pastry. Topped off with a golden finish, this tart is best enjoyed with a dollop of cream or vanilla ice cream and a side of Cape gooseberries for a truly indulgent experience. Get ready to savor every bite of this exotic treat!
— Constant Cookbook
Ingredients
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 4 cardamom pods , shelled and seeds crushed
- 175g desiccated coconut
- 225g caster sugar
- 25g butter , melted
- ¾ of a 500g block all-butter shortcrust pastry
- plain flour , for dusting
- 1 egg , beaten
- Cape gooseberry (also know as physalis), to serve (optional)
Instructions
- Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Place a shallow 23cm flan tin on a baking tray. Tip the spices, coconut and sugar into a pan with 150ml water and cook over a low heat for about 5 mins, stirring frequently to ensure the mixture doesn’t catch. Set aside to cool.
- Meanwhile, roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface and use to line the flan tin. Trim off the excess pastry, fill the pastry case with baking parchment and baking beans and cook for 15 mins. Remove the beans and cook for 5 mins more so the pastry on the base of the tin is just cooked, but not brown.
- Beat the egg and melted butter into the cooled coconut mixture, then spoon into the pastry case and smooth the top. Bake for 25 mins until the pastry is golden and the coconut pale golden. Serve with cream or real vanilla ice cream and some Cape gooseberries, then follow with cups of black Rooibos tea.
Cook Time
50M
Prep Time
PT20M
Yield
Cuts into 8 slices
Nutrition
- Calories: 567 calories
- Fat Content: 35 grams fat
- Saturated Fat Content: 20 grams saturated fat
- Carbohydrate Content: 62 grams carbohydrates
- Sugar Content: 32 grams sugar
- Fiber Content: 5 grams fiber
- Protein Content: 6 grams protein
- Sodium Content: 0.73 milligram of sodium
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