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Campari-poached pear tart

Nino Zoccali

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Campari-poached pear tart
Campari-poached pear tartPeter Stoop

A little tricky to make but totally worth it for the amazing results.

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Ingredients

Pastry

  • 110g plain flour

  • 30g icing sugar

  • 30g caster sugar

  • 50g butter

  • 1 egg yolk

  • 2 tsp pouring cream

Pastry cream

  • 1 cup milk

  • 1/2 vanilla bean, split

  • 3 egg yolks

  • 3 tbsp sugar

  • 3 tbsp cornflour

  • 1/2 cup cream, whipped

Campari-poached pears

  • 4 beurre bosc pears, peeled

  • 75mL orange juice

  • 75mL lemon juice

  • 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

  • 1/2 vanilla bean, split

  • 200g muscovado sugar

  • 2 cinnamon sticks

  • 200mL Campari

  • 750mL grenadine

  • Muscovado sugar, extra

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Method

  1. Pastry

    Preheat oven to 180C.Combine dry ingredients in a bowl. Add butter and mix until combined, running mixture through your fingers until it's the texture of breadcrumbs, then add yolk and cream and mix until smooth. Knead into a disc and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Roll pastry out on a floured surface until 2mm thick. Cut rectangles 10cm x 5cm and bake on a lightly greased oven tray for 8-10 minutes or until golden and cooked. Cool on a cake rack.

    Pastry cream

    Scald milk and vanilla in a small pan. In a bowl, beat egg yolks with sugar and cornflour until smooth. Gradually add milk mixture and whisk until smooth. Return to rinsed-out saucepan and stir over low heat until mixture has thickened, is smooth and has come to the boil. Remove vanilla, cover and refrigerate. When cool, stir in cream.

    Campari-poached pears

    Peel, halve and core pears. Combine remaining ingredients in a pan (except extra sugar) and bring to boil. Add pears and simmer over low heat for 20-25 minutes or until tender. Remove pears and cool. Boil liquid over medium heat until reduced and syrupy. Remove and cool.

    To serve, cut a slice off cheeks of pears so halves sit flat. Sprinkle with extra sugar and place under a hot grill until caramelised. Place pastry on serving plates and spoon over pastry cream. Top with two pear halves and drizzle with reduced syrup.

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