It was Serenella, my sister in law, who introduced me to this recipe
I made it many times since then
It is absolutely one of our favourites.
I recently updated it with more pictures and made a few changes.
I hope you enjoy it as much as we do
Torta della Nonna : Grandma's Tart
Tart Base
300g flour
130g sugar
150g butter (softened at room temperature, cut into pieces)
1 egg (60g)
1 sachet baking powder (15g)
Cream
Peel of 1 lemon (without the white)
120g sugar
50g flour
500g whole milk
2 eggs (very fresh, 60g each)
1 sachet vanillin sugar (or Thermomix vanilla sugar)
To decorate
50g pine nuts
Milk
20g icing sugar (as you all know it is very easy to prepare with Thermomix)
Base Preparation:
Put flour, sugar, butter, egg and baking powder in TM Bowl and mix for 20 seconds on Speed 5.
Wrap it with plastic film and let it rest in the fridge for half an hour before use.
Cream Preparation:
In the meantime chop lemon peel for 5 seconds on Speed 8.
Add sugar, flour, milk, eggs and vanillin sugar. Cook for 7 minutes at 90ºC on Speed 4.
Transfer it into a bowl and let it cool.
Final Stage
Roll out 2/3 of the tart dough with a rolling pin between two pieces of baking paper. (Meanwhile put the remaning dough back in the fridge)
Transfer it with the baking paper into a 26cm tart tin in a way that it would cover and also exceed the sides of the tart pin a little. (It may exceed even a little more than in the picture)
Spread the cream over and sprinkle with 20g of pine nuts.
Roll out the remaining 1/3 of the tart base between two pieces of baking paper and place it gently on the top of the custard.
Fold the exceeding parts over the tart and close the sides nicely
Brush with milk and sprinkle with the remaining pine nuts
Bake in preheated oven at 180ºC for 30 minutes.
After cooled down sprinkle with icing sugar.
Buon Appetito
Note: If needed, let it rest in the freezer for 5 minutes just before you roll it out
FYI: According to the book 100g of this tart is 260kcal which makes 1 portion of it 325kcal. I should add it is a 12 portions tart.
Photo: http://thermomixtarifdefterim.blogspot.com/2011/01/torta-della-nonna.html
Originally adapted from Torta Della Nonna Recipe in Bimby Torte e Biscotti
