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Sweet Potato Tart

  • Writer: UofTCooks
    UofTCooks
  • Nov 4, 2022
  • 1 min read

Updated: Nov 18, 2022




















Chef: Ariana Therese

Prep time: 50 mins

Level of difficulty: hard


Ingredients (for 8 tarts):


Tart shells:

  • 150 g flour

  • 100 g butter

  • 3 g salt

  • 2 tsp sugar

  • 105 g cold water

Filling:

  • 200 g Sweet potato, steamed

  • 50 g sugar

  • 15 g honey

  • 20 g butter

  • 1 egg

  • 25 g heavy cream

Equipment:

  • Baking pan

  • Bowl

  • Cutter

  • Egg beater

  • Oven

  • Plastic

  • Piping bags

  • Peeler

  • baking torch (optional)

Steps:

  1. Add flour and sugar to a bowl.

  2. Cut butter into smaller pieces.

  3. Add pieces of butter to flour.

  4. Mix and work them into flour.

  5. Beat the egg.

  6. Mix the heated egg into flour mix.

  7. Cover the mixed dough with plastic, and set aside.

  8. Peel and chop sweet potatoes.

  9. Steam the sweet potatoes until cooked.

  10. Blend the steamed sweet potatoes until pureed.

  11. Add sugar, egg, honey to the sweet potato puree.

  12. Stir butter in the puree.

  13. Let the puree cool down.

  14. Fit the crust dough into the baking pan.

  15. Pipe in sweet potato filling.

  16. Cover the filling with egg wash.

  17. Bake and cool.

  18. Pie meringue on top of the tarts.(optional)

  19. Brûlée until meringue becomes golden.(optional)

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