Fruit Tart

A tart is a baked dish consisting of a filling over a pastry base with an open top not covered with pastry. Modern tarts are usually fruit-based, sometimes with custard. Jam Tarts can be made by filling mini tarts with different flavour of jams.

Ingredients

Pastry 

2 cups maida

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

3/4 cup low-fat cottage cheese

1/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup low-fat milk

1/4 cup olive oil

1 tsp vanilla extract

Cream Filling

1/2 cup fresh cottage cheese (Without whey)

2 tbsp fresh cream

1/4 cup castor sugar (according to taste)

1/4 cup mango pieces

Topping

Cut fruits of your choice (kiwis, peaches, grapes, strawberries etc)

Method

Pastry

Whisk maida, baking powder & salt in a medium bowl.

Puree cottage cheese in a food processor. 

Add sugar, milk, oil & vanilla. Process until smooth. 

Add flour mixture & pulse 4 or 5 times, just until the dough clumps together. 

Turn out onto a lightly floured surface & gently knead several times; do not overwork. 

Take small portion & roll out, it should not be too thin.

Place in greased tart moulds or a pie dish & press lightly.

Prick with a fork.

Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180°C for 15 minutes or until the tarts are golden in colour.

Remove, unmould and cool.

Cream Filling

Put the cottage cheese, cream, sugar & mango in a mixer & churn till everything is mixed. Keep refrigerated till needed.

How to Assemble 

Take the cool pastry & fill it with cream filling.

Arrange fruits of your choice over the filling.

You can again decorate it with cream filing or leave it just like that.

Refrigerate for 30 mins.

Serve cold.

Tips

* You can use sweetened whipped cream instead of cream filling.

* You can make any flavour of cream filling.

* When topping the fruits, always choose fruits that don't turn black after cutting or the tart won't look good.

* The recipe here is for sweet tarts & these should be filled with sweet fillings only. Use your imagination to fill these tarts.

* For making tarts in a different way, you can also refer to my earlier recipe of Fruit Custard Tarts.