Seville Orange Tart

Name: Seville Orange Tart (Tarta de naranjas sevillanas)
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 1 × Sweet Pastry Tart Shell; 140 g caster sugar; finely grated zest of ¼ orange; 4 egg yolks, organic or free-range; 2 eggs; 170 ml Seville orange juice; 170 g unsalted butter, cut into small pieces

Tarta de naranjas sevillanas

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Moro

By Samantha Clark and Samuel Clark

Published 2001

About

Seville oranges appear in English markets in December/early January, primarily to make marmalade. We use them to make a sharp orange curd that we pour into a pastry shell and serve with creamy yoghurt or crème fraîche.

Ingredients

1 × Sweet Pastry Tart Shell

Dessert
Pastry
Vegetarian
Pie
January
December

Method

Follow the instructions for cooking the pastry shell, then remove to a rack.

Mix all the curd ingredients together and cook very slowly, stirring constantly, for 15–20 minutes until thick. To start off with, the mixture will not seem to thicken – this will happen suddenly at the end – so do not be tempted to turn the heat up or it will curdle. Remove w