Quince and Cardamom Almond Tart

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6–8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Gate Vegetarian Cookbook: Where Asia meets the Mediterranean

By Adrian Daniel and Michael Daniel

Published 2004

  • About

This tart was inspired by the idea of adding fruit to baklava. Apples were traditionally cooked with these flavourings as part of the feast to celebrate the Jewish New Year, but quince tastes even better! In fact we suspect that quince was originally used and that apples later took their place.

Ingredients

  • 3 large quinces, peeled, cored and halved
  • 400 g (14 oz) unsalted butter

Method

  1. To make the cardamom sugar syrup, put the cardamom seeds, cloves and sugar in a small pan with 300 ml (10 fl oz) water. Bring to the boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar, and simmer fo