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Apricot jam tart or Greek pasta flora is ideal for breakfast or with your afternoon coffee or tea. Its buttery and crumbly dough that melts in your mouth I remember my aunt making it quite often when I was a child and my first memory of tasting pasta flora is tasting hers. When rolling your dough snakes, work at a brisk pace and I recommend you use a bit of flour to roll with.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have greek apricot jam tart (pasta flora) using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Greek Apricot Jam Tart (Pasta Flora):
- Prepare 3 cups All Purpose Flour
- Prepare 250 grams Apricot Jam
- Take 1/2 cup Sugar
- Prepare 250 grams Butter at room temperature
- Make ready 1 Egg and 1 extra Egg White
- Prepare 1 shot Cognac
- Make ready 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- Prepare 1 Lemon zest
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Steps to make Greek Apricot Jam Tart (Pasta Flora):
- In a large bow add flour and sugar combine dry ingredients.
- Add in the baking powder, egg, butter and lemon zest.
- Continue by adding the shot of Cognac.
- Mix all the ingredients by hand until it becomes a fluffy dough. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and put in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Once the dough has cooled, separate about 100 grams of the dough to make the dough stripes that will be layered. Roll out the rest of the dough and place it into the tart pan so this becomes a tart shell.
- We usually make our own Jam but since Apricots are not in season, we found ready made apricot jam in the super market today. You can use any fruit jam you enjoy eating. Spread jam nicely in shell.
- Roll out the remaining dough into flat stripes, or you can make ropes by rolling the small pieces of dough with your hands. (These should be approximately about 1/2 finger’s width) Start layering strips on top of the jam. With the extra egg white brush lightly over stripes to get that golden brown color. 🙂 - - Pre-heat oven at 180 degrees and bake for 1 hour. - - Kali Orexi!!! 🙂
Pasta flora is actually a well loved Greek jam tart, made with whatever jam you fancy. Greeks aren't big on breakfast, but a slice of this is a favourite mid-morning. Instead of the vanilla, you can use brandy for an authentic Greek touch. SEE ALSO Chocolate and Pear Tart. Pasta frola (Greek: πάστα φλώρα), is a type of sweet tart common to Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Egypt and Greece.
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