The beauty of this recipe is – you can make a crust of your choice, or the one provided below, sprinkle it with lemon zest and any chopped nuts mixture (there are walnuts in this recipe) and the amount of spices (cinnamon, cloves) is totally up to you.
Ingredients:
For the dough
- All purpose flour – 2 cups (275 gr)
- Room temperature butter – 1 and 1/4 sticks (150 gr)
- Confectioner’s sugar – 3/4 cup (100 gr)
- 1 egg
For the filling:
- Walnuts – 2-3 tbsp (50 gr)
- Lemon – 1
- Cinnamon – tsp
- Ground clove 1/4 tsp
- Granny smith apples – 2-3
- Apricot or any fruit/berry preserve
Directions:
- In a small bowl make a mixture of chopped walnuts, lemon zest, cinnamon, clove
- Slice the apples thinly (2-3 mm) and sprinkle with lemon juice
- Combine all the dough ingredients in a big bowl and kneed the dough with your hands. It will take 2-3 minutes.
- Roll it into a ball, cover with the plastic wrap and refrigerate for about an hour
- Roll the chilled dough 1/5 of an inch (about 5 mm) thick with the rolling pin
- Place the dough into a foil form (8 inch diameter)
- Using your fingers cover the walls of the form
- Make some holes in the dough with a fork
- Sprinkle walnut mixture over the dough
- Arrange apple slices on top
- Place the tart into preheated to 375°F oven and bake for about 45 min
- In a small saucepan warm up your apricot or strawberry preserve and glaze the tart
- Also optional – sprinkle some cognac over the tart
