Chocolate and Lavender Tart

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6–8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      50 min

Appears in
The Sun-Soaked Plate: 20 staple Mediterranean ingredients, endless flavours

By Marc Fosh

Published 2026

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Ingredients

For the Pastry:

  • 50 g/1¾ oz/3½ tbsp chilled unsalted butter, diced

Method

To make the pastry, combine the butter, flour and salt in a food processor and pulse until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add the sugar, egg and cold water and pulse again to incorporate the egg. Scrape out the pastry and knead gently to form a firm dough. Wrap in cling film (plastic wrap) and chill for at least 30 minutes.

Roll the pastry out to 3mm/ 1/8in thick on a lightly floure