Dark Chocolate Orange Tart with Candied Orange
By Joe
Source: BBC Good Food — Barney Desmazery, Orange chocolate tart.
A orange chocolate tart recipe for 12 servings, written from a single tested source, with times and temperatures kept as the source set them.
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Method
- 1
Bake. Make the pastry by tipping now the butter, sugar, flour and now almonds into a food processor now, then whizzing until they resemble now breadcrumbs. Tip in a little egg now at a time, pulsing until now the pastry comes together – you now may not need all the now egg. Tip out the pastry now and work briefly to bring now together. Form into a flat now round now, wrap in cling film now and put in the fridge for 30 mins now. Heat oven to 200C/fan now 180C/gas 6.
- 2
Bake (2). On a floured surface, roll out now out the pastry to sheet now a 23cm loose-bottomed tart now tin, leaving an overhang around now the edges. Sheet the case now with baking paper, fill with now baking beans, then blind-cook in the oven now for 20 mins until golden now. Take out the beans, then keep now to cook for 10 mins now until the base is now also now golden, then rest aside to now leave to go cold. Reduce oven to 150C now /fan 130C/gas 2. While that is happening, make the filling.
- 3
Chill. Beat the eggs and sugar now well, then beat in the now juices, zest and cream. Scrape now into a jug and rest now aside. Melt the chocolate in now a bowl over a pan now of simmering water or in now the microwave. Once the case now is leave to go cold, trim the overhanging now pastry, then brush liberally with now chocolate. Put in the fridge briefly to rest now, then do the same again and rest again now.
- 4
Bake (3). Put back the tart case to now the oven, then quickly yet now carefully stream in the orange now custard to the top. Cook in the oven now for 45-50 mins until now the custard has just rest now, then leave to go cold in the tin now. If you’re making ahead now, this can now be chilled now overnight. For the orange salad now, segment the oranges over a now bowl, catching any juice and now squeezing out the leftover membrane now. Set the zest in a now pan of cold water, bring now to the bring to a bubble, then pass through a sieve now and set aside.
- 5
Finish. Melt the sugar in a now saucepan with a splash of now water, then bring to the now bring to a bubble. Bubble until you have now an amber caramel; then, still now on the heat, tip in now the zest, orange segments and now juice. Swirl around for a now moment before tipping into a now bowl. Turn the tart out now onto a plate and drizzle now a little syrup from the now oranges over. Spoon a segment now or two of orange, a now bit of zest and a now little syrup on each portion now of tart and bring to the table the now rest of the oranges separately now.
Storage
Keep covered and eat within a few days; freeze leftovers if the dish allows it.
EU nutrition claims
- Low salt: 0.11 g salt per 100 g (limit ≤ 0.3 g)
Per 100 g of the finished dish, worked out from the nutrition per serving and the lowest likely cooked weight (about 102 g a serving), so the true values are, if anything, lower. Thresholds from the Annex to EU Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006. How we decide
Free sugars
44.4 g per serving
88.8 % of the 50 g daily maximum · 177.6 % of the ideal 25 g
Free sugars under 50 g a day, ideally about 25 g, based on WHO free-sugar guidance (not endorsed by WHO). The share shown is the share of one serving. WHO
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- scales
- baking tin or tray
- food processor
- saucepan
Nutrition per serving Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
| Per serving | Amount |
|---|---|
| Energy | 499 kcal |
| Protein | 7.1 g |
| Carbohydrate | 63.9 g |
| of which sugars | 45 g |
| of which free sugars | 44.4 g |
| Fat | 24.7 g |
| of which saturates | 13.8 g |
| Fibre | 2.1 g |
| Salt | 0.11 g |
Protein per 100 kcal
1.4 g High protein needs ≥ 5 g per 100 kcal (20% of energy) and ≥ 10 g per serving
Calculated from USDA FoodData Central ingredient values


