Introduction: Greedy Pie
this beautiful and appetizing pie can be a way to greet the arrival of spring. It 's a simple pie made with few ingredients, as you can see from the picture the main one are the strawberries
Step 1: Ingredients
The Pastry Ingredients
360 gr Flour + the necessary for the pastry board
100 gr Sugar
a bit of Salt
180gr Butter
4 Yolks Egg
Marzipan Ingredients
100 gr Sugar
100 gr Ground Almonds
1 or 2 Egg Whites
Pie Decoration and Syrup
800 gr Straberries
1 Tablespoon of Lemon Juice
100 gr Sugar
Step 2: Pastry Preparation
Mix the flour, sugar and salt in a bowl.
Separate egg yolks from egg withes. You'll use yolks for pastry and withes for marzipan
Add the egg yolks and finally the chopped butter. Work a little with your hands. flour the work table and turn the bowl upside down with the dough, continue to work until it forms a ball. transfer it to the bowl and cover with a plastic film and let it rest for about an hour in the fridge.
Step 3: Strawberries Syrup
In the meantime, clean the strawberries. Choose about ten of the more ripe ones, crush them with a fork and put them in a saucepan with lemon juice, sugar, if necessary a tablespoon of water. Bring to the boil and reduce the liquid until it has the consistency of a syrup. (wach the video)
Step 4:
After this step, roll out the dough on a paper furnace, pulling it lengthwise with a rolling pin, at a thickness of 4 mm. Use the sheet obtained to line a rectangular cake pan. Put the cake pan in an oven preheated to 190 C for 20 minutes. Unmould the tart on the buttered baking sheet
Step 5:
Mix in a bowl the sugar and the ground almonds. Little by little incorporate the 'egg white, until you get a smooth dough but quite consistent. The amount' of egg whites depends on the size of the eggs that you have available.
Step 6:
Fill the pastry syringe with the mixture and decorate the tart (you can choose an ornamental pattern at will). Put it back in the oven at 210 C for 10 minutes. The marzipan should look golden. Let the tart cool on the plate
Step 7:
wash the strawberries for decoration and distribute them on the tart placing them inside the patterns drawn with marzipan. polish with a brush for cakes the strawberries with the syrup obtained previously and then pour the rest of the syrup on the cake without wetting the dough. (watch the video)