Freefrom Strawberry Coconut Tart

Corn, egg, gluten, lactose, milk, nightshade, nut, peanut, sesame, soya & wheat free; can be corn & nut free

This was conceived as an all-coconut recipe but you may prefer to use your own favourite pastry gluten/dairy-free recipe - or even a ready made pastry... If you want to go for the full coconut experience: Coconut flour does not make good pastry on its own, but we found that the combination of coconut and ground almonds worked well. If you use the coconut oil as well the resulting pastry does have a distinct, though not unpleasant, flavour of coconut although the cream scarcely does.
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Serves 6freefrom strawberry and coconut tart

Ingredients

  • 100g coconut flour
  • 100g ground almonds - if you cannot eat nuts, use gram (chickpea) flour or polenta (cornmeal)
  • 100g coconut butter (oil) or dairy-free spread such as PURE
  • 1 level tsp pale muscovado (raw) sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 30g cornflour - if you cannot eat corn, use potato flour
  • 300ml coconut milk
  • 3 tbsp Cointreau or Grand Marnier
  • 200-300g of whatever seasonal fresh fruit you wish to use
  • mint leaves to decorate (optional)

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 170C/325F/Gas Mark 3.
  2. Put the coconut flour, almonds, coconut butter and sugar in a food processor and whizz briefly to mix in the fat.
  3. Add the egg and whizz briefly again.
  4. Press the mixture out into the base and up the sides of a 20cm / 8" flan dish, getting it as even as you can.
  5. Prick the base with a fork.
  6. Bake for 25 minutes or until the paste is lightly tanned.
  7. In a small pan gradually add the coconut milk to the cornflour or potato flour until you have a smooth paste then gradually add the rest of the milk.
  8. Heat over a low flame, stirring all the time, until the cream thickens.
  9. Cook for a minute or two, then remove from the heat and stir into the Cointreau. Cool.
  10. Spoon the cream into the pastry base and smooth out.
  11. Slice the fruit if necessary and arrange over the cream.
  12. Decorate with mint leaves if desired and serve at room temperature.

Serves 6 - per portion
446cals - 9g protein
34g total fat - 17g sat / 10g mono / 2g poly
23g carbohydrate of which 6g sugar
3g fibre - 123mg sodium / 0.3g salt
57mg calcium

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