Sour Cherries Tart

The sour cherries are cherries that grow in the Modena area, with a soft consistency, brown red color and a sweet taste with a hint of sour. The sour cherry jam has a sour taste well defined, and it is absolutely perfect combined with the sweet of shortcrust pastry.

Preparation time: 1 hour and a half

Ingredients : 9-inch pie dish

Crust

• 300 gr.  all purpose flour
• 100 gr. brown sugar
• 80 gr. butter
• 2 eggs
• lemon zest
• a pinch of salt
• 250 gr. sour cherries jam (for the original sour cherries jam tap here)

Method

1. Place the flour on a work surface.
2. In the center add the sugar, the grated rind of the lemon, the salt, and the butter at room temperature and cut into small pieces, and mix briefly: you will get a sandy mixture, which crumbles.
3. Add the eggs and knead quickly with your hands, until you get a smooth and firm dough
4. Shape into a ball, wrap it in plastic wrap and let it rest in the fridge for 30 minutes.
5. After the rest time. divide the dough into two parts, one a little larger than the other. With the rolling pin roll out the larger half of the dough on a floured work surface, giving it the shape of the pan. The thickness will be a few millimeters. Transfer to a pan lined with parchment paper or greased and dusted with flour.
6. Fill with the sour cherry jam. For 9-inch pie dish you will need a 250 g jar of jam.
7. Roll out the remaining shortcrust pastry and cut into strips of dough, which you will place on top of the cake. If you want, instead of the strips, you can create shapes, hearts, stars …, to be placed on top of the cake.
8. Bake in a convection oven already hot at 180 degrees for 30/35 minutes

Note

To see more tarts recipes  tap here

To see how to decorate a tart tap here