
Plum & Ginger Autumn Tart
Try this delicious plum and ginger autumn tart recipe for a tasty treat. Made with Jus-Rol all butter shortcrust pastry and ready in 30 minutes.
Quick Stats
Easy
1 tart
20 minutes bake time
Plum & Ginger Autumn Tart
Try this delicious plum and ginger autumn tart recipe for a tasty treat. Made with Jus-Rol all butter shortcrust pastry and ready in 30 minutes.
Ingredients
- 500g Jus-Rol™ All butter shortcrust pastry
- 1 rounded tbsp semolina
- 100g Demerara sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 500g English plums quartered and stones removed
- 2 x pieces stem ginger in syrup
Equipment required
- 20 cm flan tin
- Baking paper
Techniques Used
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How to Roll Shortcrust Pastry
How to Roll Shortcrust Pastry
- For best results when rolling out shortcrust pastry use a large, clean dry area of the work surface and lightly dust it with plain flour.
- Place pastry dough on surface and lightly dust it and the rolling pin with flour.
- Roll pastry firmly, always rolling away from you, give the dough 2-3 rolls.
- Then turn the dough a quarter turn.
- Dust again if necessary and continue rolling out, frequently turning the pastry so it is not always rolled in the same direction as this causes shrinkage.
- When the pastry has increased in size, pick it up to turn/ line the tin by rolling it round the rolling pin.
- Lift the pin with the pastry around it carefully and turn it to lay out and continue rolling. Again this is done to prevent the pastry from stretching as you lift it which in turn would result in shrinkage in baking. Shortcrust pastry should be rolled out to approx. 3-5 mm. depth.
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How to Line a Flan Tin
How to Line a Flan Tin
- Roll out the pastry. Measure tin over rolled out pastry to ensure you will have enough to line the insides of the tin with a little excess to make it easier to work.
- Lift up pastry around rolling pin and gently unroll over flan tin, starting with the edge nearest to you.
- Gently ease the pastry into the tin, pressing it down the sides onto the base.
- Once you have pushed it in all the way round, go around again to press well down on to base, so that there is almost a ‘pleat’ of pastry at base of sides, and press into the flutes.
- Fold back excess pastry so that it hangs over the sides of the tin.
- To cut off the excess pastry roll the pin firmly over the top of the tin in both directions.
- Gently pull away excess pastry.
- Now gently pull up the sides of the pastry from the small excess you left at base so that the pastry stands slightly proud of the top. This will ensure a good depth to the sides of the flan if the pastry shrinks slightly in cooking.
Method
- Preheat oven to 200ºC (180º for fan assisted ovens) /400ºF/ Gas M6
- Roll out pastry and line a 20 cm flan/tart tin or ring.
- Combine the semolina with 50g of sugar and one tsp of ground ginger. Scatter over base of pastry tart case.
- Arrange plums haphazardly in tart case. Thinly slice stem ginger pieces and place amongst plums. Combine remaining ground ginger and sugar and scatter over plums.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until pastry golden brown and plums tender.
- Drizzle with a generous dessertspoonful of stem ginger syrup and serve warm or cold with cream, crème fraiche or ice cream.