Fig Apple Tart Recipes

FIG & APPLE TART

Steps:

• Place the flour on a clean workbench in a pile.
• Make a well in the centre.
• Melt the butter and combine with the water.
• Pour the butter/water into the well and whisk in the flour a bit at a time with a fork or butter knife, until all the flour is combined.
• Knead into a pastry dough and allow to rest for 1 hour.
• In a round pie dish, place some butter, then sprinkle with some of the sugar.
• Thickly slice the figs and apples. Layer the figs, cut side down, in the pie plate.
• Sprinkle with half the remaining sugar.
• Layer the apple over that, and sprinkle with the remaining sugar.
• Roll the pastry out into a rough circle about the size of your pie dish (or slightly bigger). Lay over the fruit, pressing in on the edges.
• Bake at 240C for 30 minutes.
• Cool slightly out of the oven, then turn onto a plate (or other heat resistant flat dish), and grill for 10 minutes or until the sugar caramelises.
• Serve with cream or ice-cream.

FIG AND APPLE PHYLLO TART

Steps:

• Remove any stems from figs. In a saucepan combine figs with remaining filling ingredients and simmer, covered, 20 minutes, or until very tender. Transfer mixture to a food processor and blend until smooth.
• Brush a 9-inch-square or 10-inch round tart pan with a removable fluted rim with some butter. On a work surface arrange 1 sheet phyllo with a short side facing you and brush with some butter, On it layer 3 more sheets phyllo and more butter in same manner and line pan, pressing phyllo into pan with fingertips and leaving short sides overhanging.
• Repeat layering procedure with remaining phyllo and some of remaining butter and arrange in pan at a 90-degree angle to the first lining, easing to fit. Put pan on a baking sheet and roll overhanging edges under loosely (outside the pan) to form a decorative edge. Brush edge with remaining butter and spread fig mixture evenly on bottom.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Peel, quarter, and core apples and cut each quarter in 3 or 4 wedges. Arrange apple wedges over fig mixture in decorative pattern and sprinkle with granulated sugar. Bake tart in middle of oven 40 minutes.
• In a small bowl stir together yogurt and egg.
• Remove tart from oven and increase oven temperature to 475°F. Pour yogurt mixture over apples and cover edge of tart with foil. Return tart to oven and bake 15 minutes, or until apples begin to brown. Cool tart in pan on a rack 30 minutes and sprinkle with almonds and confectioners' sugar.