Spanish cooking may not be so well known for its pastries, but there are some real hidden gems among the long list of “Spanish tartas” such as “Tarta de la abuela”: “Grandmother’s tart”. This is a puff pastry recipe that will leave you licking your lips for more! Spanish cooking is famous for its meat and fish dishes, sourced from wonderful, fresh, local ingredients, but today there are also many very passionate and talented pastry chefs drawing from a long and diverse history of sweet making and Spanish tartas. Spanish fruit is of a very high standard and here with the “Tarta de la abuela” we see the use of apples, apricot and rasberry. Yummmmm!!
“Tarta de la abuela”
Ingredients for 4 people:
200g of puff pastry
4 cooking apples
1 knob of butter
2 tablespoons of sugar
50 grs of apricot jam
A little flour to roll the pastry
Mint leaves
To accompany: raspberry sauce and custard
Preparation:
Sprinkle the puff pastry with a bit of flour and roll it with a rolling pin until thin.
Put it on an oven try covered with baking paper.
Cut the ends to give it a rectangular shape.
Prick the centre with a fork to stop it rising.Peal the apples, cut them in half, remove the cores and cut into thin slices.
Cover the centre of the pastry with the apples, leaving the ends free. Put small portions of butter on top and sprinkle some sugar.
Put in the oven at 170º – 180º for 20-25 minutes.
Remove the tart from the oven and spread the top with apricot jam.
Decorate with some mint leaves and serve with a raspberry sauce and some custard.
Wow, great recipe. This almost like a recipe my grandmother made who was German except we added cinnamon.