Pear tart with puff pastry

Total: 1 hr 15 min. | Active: 35 min.
vegetarian

Designed to look like a rose, this tart is pretty yet very easy and quick to prepare. The pears can also be replaced by apples and the drizzle of maple syrup at the end saves adding sugar to the sauce. If your fruit is very ripe, you can even leave out the maple syrup.

Nadja - LouMalou

Ingredients

for 8 pieces

Tart
puff pastry dough, rolled into a circle (approx. 32 cm Ø)
4 tbsp ground hazelnuts
pears, thinly sliced
Sauce
1 dl milk
1 dl single cream
100 g low-fat quark
1 tsp vanilla paste
Walnuts
30 g walnut kernels, coarsely chopped
1 tbsp coconut palm sugar
1 tbsp water
1 tbsp maple syrup

How it's done

Tart

Roll out the dough, place in the tin along with the baking paper, prick the base firmly with a fork, top with the nuts. Arrange the pears in a rose design, spread on top of the dough with the skin facing upwards.

Sauce

Mix the milk, cream, quark and vanilla paste, spread on top of the tart.

To bake

Approx. 40 mins. on the bottom shelf of an oven preheated to 200°C. Allow to cool slightly, remove from the tin and leave to cool on a rack.

Walnuts

Heat the nuts, sugar and water in a pan, keep stirring until the nuts have caramelized. Top the tart with the nuts, drizzle with maple syrup.

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