Strawberry Citrus Tart
Jun 20, 2025
We like to have this for dessert with a small glass of limoncello, orangecello, or mandarincello. We find the flavours go really well together. This dessert is not too rich due to using whole strawberries, but you can cut the strawberries in half longways if you want to use only one punnet of strawberries. The orange and lemon in the tart filling enhances the flavour of the strawberries, to create a delightful dessert.
Serves: 8
Preparation: 15 minutes
Cooking: 45-50 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 punnets fresh ripe strawberries
- 2 sheets sweet pastry
- 1/4 cup of icing sugar
- Juice and zest of half a lemon
- Juice and zest of half an orange
- 3 eggs
- 1 egg yolk (reserve the egg white)
- 3/4 cup low-fat cream (we use regular cream)
- 3/4 cup caster sugar
Method
- Preheat oven to 180°C
- Press pastry (at room temperature) into the tin (26cm with removable base) and trim the edges. Then place in the freezer for 10 minutes
- In a bowl add the strawberries (with the tops sliced off so they will sit flat on top of the tart), icing sugar and lemon juice in a bowl and leave to sit for half an hour
- Remove pastry from freezer and prick the base with a fork. Cover pastry with baking paper and then rice or baking weights. Blind bake for around 8 minutes and remove rice (or weights)
- Whisk the reserved egg white and brush over the base. Bake for a further 5 minutes or until light golden and take out of the oven to cool
- Reduce oven heat to 170°C
Filling:
- Whisk eggs, yolk and caster sugar in a bowl, add cream, lemon and orange juice and zest and stir through
- Pour the filling into the cooled pastry base and bake for 30 minutes or until filling is just set (a little bit wobbly). Remove and leave to cool in the tin
- When completely cool remove the tart from the tin, place on the strawberries (as per photo) and refrigerate until ready to serve
Recipe shared with permission of Citrus NZ and 5+A Day
