Tender Tart Pastry

🛒Ingredients (Grocery List)

  • 1 1/2 cups unbleached All-purpose Flour

  • 1/4 tsp fine Sea Salt

  • 12 tbsp (1 1/2 sticks) Unsalted Butter, chilled and cut into 12 pieces

  • 6 tbsp Ice Water


🍴Serves: 8

⏰Prep Time: 5 min

⏱️Cook Time: 25 min


🥣Instructions

1. Place the Flour and Salt in a food processor and process once to mix. Add the Butter and process until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Add the 5 tablespoons Ice Water and pulse just until the pastry begins to hold together. If the pastry seems dry and dusty, add the remaining 1 tablespoon of water.

2. Tip out the pastry from the food processor to your work surface and form it quickly, without touching it too much, into a flat round. Cover it with a bowl and let it rest on the work surface for at least 30 minutes. The pastry can sit several hours at room temperature, as long as the room isn’t warmer than 68 degrees. The pastry is now ready to use as desired.

💡Tips

  • This is made in a food processor, so the ingredients stay cold while they are being put together.

  • Once the pastry is made, it needs to sit at room temperature for at least 30 minutes so it can relax before being rolled out.