An easy tahini caramel sauce drizzled over a simple apple tart with homemade flaky pastry!Recipe adapted from Ina Garten
Course Pies, Pastries, Tarts & Crumbles
Cuisine French
Keyword apple tart, caramel, tahini, tahini caramel
Prep Time 20 minutesminutes
Cook Time 45 minutesminutes
Additional Time 1 hourhour
Total Time 2 hourshours5 minutesminutes
Author Izy
Ingredients
For the pastry:
2cups(240g) plain white (all-purpose) flour
1tbspgranulated sugar
½tspsalt
¾cup(165g) unsalted butter, cold, cubed
up to 1/2 cup(125ml) ice water
For the caramel:
1/3cup(65g) granulated sugar
2tbspwater
2tbsp(30g) unstalted butter
generous pinch salt
½tspvanilla extract or vanilla bean powder
3tbsptahini
4tbspmilk
For the top:
3 to 4Bramley apples, peeled and cored
¼cup(50g) granulated sugar
2tbspunsalted butter, cut into little cubes
Instructions
Make the pastry:
Place the flour, salt, sugar and butter into the bowl of a food processor. Pulse to cut the butter in – you want a mealy mixture with a few pea-sized lumps of butter remaining. Drizzle in the water (start with 4 tablespoons) and pulse in, adding more water a tablespoon at a time if needed. The mixture should be moist enough so that if you squeeze some together, it’ll stick.
Tip the pastry mixture out onto a piece of cling film. Pat together with your hands into a rectangle then wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Meanwhile make the caramel:
Place the sugar and water in a large saucepan (silver/white ones a best so you can see the colour change). Place over a medium heat on the stove and stir just until the sugar dissolves then stop stirring. Let the mixture cook, tilting and swirling the pan, until it has reached an even, golden colour.
Turn the heat all the way down, add in the butter, salt and vanilla. Let that butter melt a bit before picking the spoon back up and mixing it in. Once smooth, add the tahini and milk and stir through until smooth. Take off the heat and set aside.
Rolling and baking:
Once the pastry has rested, preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F) fan.
Cut the apples in half and then slice into half-moons about ¼-inch (5mm) thick.
Cut a piece of baking paper to fit a large baking tray. Unwrap the pastry, place onto the baking paper and dust with flour. Roll the pastry out into a rectangle slightly smaller than the piece of baking paper. Trim the edges so they are straight then transfer the pastry (on the baking paper) onto the baking tray.
Place overlapping slices of apples diagonally down the middle of the tart and continue making diagonal rows on both sides of the first row until the pastry is covered with apple slices. Sprinkle with the 1/4 cup of sugar and dot with the butter.
Bake for 35-45 minutes until the tart is dark golden around the edges and the apples have coloured slightly. Drizzle with the caramel (you may need to re-warm it over a low heat on the stove to get it drizzle-able again) then allow to cool before slicing and serving.
Notes
if you want to speed this recipe up, you can use a block of puff pastry or shortcrust pastry in place of making your own.