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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Jam Crostata recipe and ingredients

Jam Crostata recipe
Jam Crostata recipe

Serves 6-8

At Ombra, they make their own strawberry jam for this crostata, but you could use any flavour of good-quality jam you like

Jam Crostata ingredients: 2 cups (300g) olain flour. 1 cup (150g) incing sugar, plus extra to dust. 150g chilled unsalted butter, chopped. 2 egg yolks. 600g good-quality strawberry jam. Vanilla ice cream, to serve

Jam Crostata recipe: Whiz flour nd sugar with 1/2 tsp salt in a food processor to combine. Add butter, and whiz until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Add yolks and 1/4 cup (60ml) chilled water, the whiz until mixture just comes together. Shape dough into 2 balls, then enclose in plastic wrap and chill for 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 180C and grease a 25cm loose-bottomed tart pan. Roll out 1 dough ball on a lightly floured board to 5mm thick, then use to line the tart pan. Roll out the remaining dough to 5mm thick, then cut into long, thin strips. Spread the jam in the tart shell, then top with pastry strips in a criss cross pattern. Place tart on a baking tray and bake for 30-35 minutes until golden. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then dust with icing sugar and serve warm with ice dream
 
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