Basic fruit flan
A delicious fruit flan which is quite easy, but just be a little careful when making the crème pâtissière. It is made using pâte sucrée (with ground almonds), but you can also make with pâte sablée (trickier) or pâte à foncer (easier).
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| Servings: | Serves 6 |
| Calories per serving: | 654 |
| Ready in: | 1 hour, 15 minutes |
| Prep. time: | 25 minutes |
| Cook time: | 50 minutes |
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| Recipe author: | JuliaBalbilla |
| First published: | 7th June 2015 |
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Best recipe reviewLooks lovely Julia 5/5 A work of art that is beyond me! |
{{RecipeIngredients For the pâte sucrée | 190g plain flour, sieved | 60g ground almonds | 100g icing sugar, sieved | 100g butter, cubed | 2 medium eggs (room temperature) |For the crème pâtissière | 1 medium egg, plus 1 yolk (room temperature) | 75g caster sugar | 45g plain flour | 500ml milk | 1 teaspoon vanilla extract |For the Chantilly cream | 250g double cream, chilled | 50g icing sugar | 1 teaspoon vanilla extract |To finish | 600g fresh berries, cut in half if using large strawberries | 10 g icing sugar }}
Mise en place
- Grease (and line if necessary) a 23cm / 9 inch fluted flan tin or ring
Method
- For the pâte sucrée
- Mix the flour, almonds and icing sugar in a bowl.
- Rub in the butter until the mixture is like fine breadcrumbs
- Add the eggs and mix gently to a smooth paste.
- The dough will be sticky, but if too sticky, add a little more flour
- Shape the dough into a cow pat, wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Pre-heat the pven to 190° C (375° F - gas 5), [fan oven 170° C & reduce cooking time by 10 mins per hour]
- Roll out the dough into a rough circle and line the flan tin or ring.
- Using a fork, prick the base.
- Bake blind for 25 minutes, then bake for a further 15 minutes without the baking beans or until cooked.
- Remove from the tin and leave to cool on a cooling rack.
- For the crème pâtissière
- Whisk together the eggs and 25g sugar in a bowl
- Whisk in the flour.
- Heat the milk in a pan with the rest of the sugar and as soon as it
- comes to the boil, pour into the egg mixture, stirring constantly.
- Mix well, then pour the mixture back into the pan with the vanilla extract.
- Bring to the boil over a medium heat, stirring continuously.
- Allow to bubble for 2 minutes, then pour into a bowl or jug.
- Cover with cling film and leave to cool.
- For the Chantilly cream
- Whisk all of the ingredients in a chilled bowl until it has thickened.
- Do not over-whisk or you will end up with sweet butter.
- Cover the bowl and keep in the fridge until needed.
- To finish
Recipe source
- Loosely based on recipes by the Roux brothers in The Roux Brothers on Patisserie (1986)
Chef's notes
Each component of the recipe can be made the day before, but ensure that the pastry case is wrapped and that the crème pâtissière and Chantilly cream are covered in cling film.
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