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Normandy pear tart recipe
Photo: Ernest Porzi

Normandy pear tart recipe

13 ingredients 45 min + 45 min 6 people openrecipes

A classic frangipane-filled tart, this recipe hails from Normandy in northern France where they grow the most wonderful pears. Best eaten warm or at room temperature the day it is made.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

833
Calories
21g
Protein
19g
Fat
144g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 10 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Pear 1 medium (178g) 101
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Apricot 1 medium (35g) 17
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Vanilla 1 tsp extract (4ml) 12
Almond 1 almond (1.2g) 7
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 125 whole blanched almonds
  • g -4 pears, peeled, cored, and cut in wedges
  • 3 lemon, juice only
  • 1 apricot jam
  • 150 -4 tbsp Kirsch
  • g caster sugar
  • 2 unsalted butter, softened
  • 100 plain flour, plus 2 tbsp extra
  • g egg yolks, plus 1 egg
  • 125 caster sugar
  • g pinch of salt
  • 175 unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
  • g vanilla extract

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By lovefood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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