Lemon Tarte Recipe for fine Tarte au Citron
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Violà here you find my Lemon Tarte Recipe for sweet treats.
I will show you step by step how to successfully bake lemons with many pictures.
The Tarte au Citron is a classic French variant of a tart.
You can serve it as a dessert or in the afternoon to your guests.Lemons are rarely used as a whole in Germany.
In this original version they are blanched in slices and placed on top of the cake.
Now quickly tie the baking apron around you and I wish you good luck!
Table of Contents
1. Recipe Lemon Tarte
Now follows my recipe for a fine pastry. Have fun with it!
If you have any questions regarding the preparation of the Tarte au Citron,
please do not hesitate to contact me via the comment function.
Lemon Tarte Recipe
Baked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.
Simple guide for baking lemon tart.
![Lemon tarte - tarte au citron Recipe Image](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Lemon-tarte-tarte-au-citron-recipe-picture.jpg)
Ingredients
Shortcrust Pastry | ||
125 | g | flour (finely sieved) |
2 | tbs | icing sugar (finely sieved) |
1 | pinch | Salt |
75 | g | butter (lukewarm) |
1 | pc | egg yolk |
1-2 | tbs | lemon abrasion (from an organic lemon) |
200 | g | dried peas or dried beans (to weigh down the shortcrust pastry during baking) |
Filling for the Tarte | ||
3 | pc | eggs |
2 | pc | egg yolk |
160 | g | fine brown sugar |
125 | ml | Cream |
120 | ml | lemon juice (from 3 lemons) |
2 | tbs | lemon abrasion (from an organic lemon) |
Glazed Lemons for the Topping | ||
3 | pc | small lemons (organic and thoroughly washed) |
130 | g | Sugar |
200 | ml | Water |
Instruction
Shortcrust Pastry
![to sift flour](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/to-sift-flour.jpg)
Sieve flour
Sieve the flour and icing sugar into a bowl.
Form a hollow in the middle.
![dough ingredients in a mixing bowl](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/dough-ingredients.jpg)
Prepare dough
Add butter, egg yolk and a pinch of salt to the bowl.
Mix the ingredients with your hands.
Start in the bowl and gradually work through to the outside.
Knead well and form a ball.
![dough ball](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/dough-ball.jpg)
Chill dough
Wrap the dough ball for the shortcrust pastry in a plastic wrap and let it rest in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
![butter molds](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/mold-butter.jpg)
Prepare cake molds
Preheat the oven to 200° C.
Grease a 2 cm deep and approx. 21 cm wide baking tin for tart or flan.
It is also possible to use small tart moulds in portions.
![roll out dough](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Roll-out-the-dough-foil.jpg)
Process dough
Roll out the shortcrust pastry between two layers of cling film or baking paper to a thickness of approx. 3 mm.
![cut out the dough](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/dough-cut-out.jpg)
Shape dough
Cut out the dough round.
![Bake the dough with peas blind](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blind-baking-tart-with-peas.jpg)
Blind baking
Line the prepared mould with it and remove the dough residues at the edge.
Cover the dough with baking paper and weigh down with dry peas or beans and bake for 10-12 minutes.
![baked tartes with peas](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/blind-baked-tart-bases.jpg)
Finish cake bases
Let the baked short pastry tartes cool in the tin.
Remove the peas as soon as possible.
Filling
![Lemon filling for the tarts](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/filling-for-tart.jpg)
Prepare filling
Reduce the oven temperature to 150° C.
Put the eggs, egg yolk and sugar in a bowl.
![Mix the tart filling](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/tart-filling.jpg)
Filling complete
Stir with cream, lemon juice and lemon dust.
![Pour the batter into the tart](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/tart-filling-mass.jpg)
Baking
Pour the filling into the cooled shortcrust pastry tin.
Bake for 50 minutes until the filling has set.
Take out of the oven and let cool.
Glaze Lemons
![Lemon wedges](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/lemon-slice-cut.jpg)
Prepare lemon
Wash and dry the lemons.
Then cut the lemons into 2mm thick slices.
![Lemon wedges when boiling in sugar water](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Lemon-slices-sugar-water-boiling.jpg)
Lemon boil
Dissolve sugar in 200 ml hot water in a small pot or saucepan.
Briefly blanch the lemons in boiling water for 3 minutes.
This is recommended in many books, I left it out!
Cook the lemon slices in water with plenty of icing sugar at low heat for 15 minutes until soft.
![cooked lemon slices](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/boiled-lemons.jpg)
Lemons ready
The lemon slices are now glassy and the peel soft.
Now remove the lemon slices with the skimmer and drain.
![Lemons put to star](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Lemon-Star-Lay-Tart.jpg)
Prepare cake layer
Cut the lemon slices in half and arrange them in a star shape on a board.
![Top the tart with lemons](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/lemon-star-laid-tart.jpg)
Put on lemons
Carefully place the lemon topping with a dough card in the middle of the tartes.
![Lemon tart with shortcrust pastry](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Lemon-tart-across.jpg)
Serve
Decorate the lemon tartes with mint and serve.
Bon Appetit!
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2. Nutritional Values
3. Bake Cake Base for Lemon Tart Perfectly
Besides the expected ingredients you also need dried peas.
I can also warmly recommend dried beans, which have a little more weight.
The shortcrust pastry is first baked with dried peas for weighting down
Tip from Chef Thomas Sixt
For this you also need a tarte or flan form.
![baked tartes with peas](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/blind-baked-tart-bases-1.jpg)
![Bake the dough with peas blind](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Blind-baking-tart-with-peas.jpg)
4. Steps to Prepare Lemon Tart
The preparation of three different ingredients I show you below in the recipe in detail:
- shortcrust pastry
- cream as filling
- blanching lemons
This sounds complex, but you can make baking for this wonderfully easy.
You can prepare a shortcrust pastry first. This can also be done the day before!
You can bake the shortcrust pastry one day in advance.
This can be done even earlier, but then you should freeze it in the mould.
You can prepare the lemon top at your leisure while baking the shortcrust pastry plus the filling.
The dough and filling take a good 50 minutes. The cooking for the lemon top takes about 15 minutes.
![Tarte au Citron with whole lemon wedges](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/tart-slices.jpg)
![Lemon tart with shortcrust pastry](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Lemon-tart-across-1.jpg)
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