Coconut tart
By Sara Buenfeld
Cooking time
Prep: 20 mins Cook: 50 minsSkill level
Moderately easyServings
Cuts into 8 slicesThe filling of this tart ends up a like a gorgeous, sweet, coconut macaroon. Perfect with a dollop of whipped cream
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 567
- protein
- 6g
- carbs
- 62g
- fat
- 35g
- saturates
- 20g
- fibre
- 5g
- sugar
- 32g
- salt
- 0.73g
Ingredients
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 4 cardamom pods, shelled and seeds crushed
- 175g desiccated coconut
- 225g caster sugar
- 25g butter, melted
- ¾ of a 500g block all-butter shortcrust pastry
- plain flour, for dusting
- 1 egg, beaten
- Cape gooseberry (also know as physalis), to serve (optional)
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Method
- Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Place a shallow 23cm flan tin on a baking tray. Tip the spices, coconut and sugar into a pan with 150ml water and cook over a low heat for about 5 mins, stirring frequently to ensure the mixture doesn’t catch. Set aside to cool.
- Meanwhile, roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface and use to line the flan tin. Trim off the excess pastry, fill the pastry case with baking parchment and baking beans and cook for 15 mins. Remove the beans and cook for 5 mins more so the pastry on the base of the tin is just cooked, but not brown.
- Beat the egg and melted butter into the cooled coconut mixture, then spoon into the pastry case and smooth the top. Bake for 25 mins until the pastry is golden and the coconut pale golden. Serve with cream or real vanilla ice cream and some Cape gooseberries, then follow with cups of black Rooibos tea.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2008
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
This was a very good recipe. I followed the exact recipe first time and it tasted great. Second time I made only a few slight motifications, which worked well:
1) I made my own pastry
2) I grated a fresh coconut in lieu of using dessicated coconut. This is time consuming, but it pays dividends in terms of taste and texture.
3) I used the coconut milk from the fresh coconut, and topped this up with whole milk, instead of using water. I also found I needed slightly more than 150ml. Closer to 200ml I would say.
4) 225g in my opinion is far too much sugar. It was simply too sweet. 175g - 200g is a better estimate. I prefered the lower of these figures, but you can add to suit your taste.
5) I didn't use the egg. Made no difference.
this recipe was so easy, great just as it is but also very good slightly different. As i have a very hungry family i am always looking for ways to make dishes go further, i removed the spices, added 50g of breadcrumbs and an extra egg to the coconut mix. Made the tart in a dish one size up and added rasberry jam to the base. The kids love it straight from the fridge if it lasts that long !!
