Elle & Vire Recipes
by Eric Perez

Recipe Lemon Tart

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Ingredient list
Sablé breton
240 g flour
180 g Elle & Vire all Purpose butter 82% fat
160 g sugar
10 g baking powder
3 g salt
70 g egg yolks
Lemond curd
100 g lemon juice
1 lemon peel
80 g fine sugar
120 g eggs
80 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 82% fat
Lemon gelee
100 g lemon puree
25 g fine sugar
2 g agar agar
Lemon mousseline
125 g lemon puree
2 lemon peel
125 g whole milk
55 g egg yolks
80 g sugar
25 g corn starch
125 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 82% fat
Marshmallow
250 g sugar
25 g trimoline
25 g glucose
75 g water
75 g egg whites
2 g powdered egg whites
Macaroon
150 g icing sugar
150 g almond powder
60 g egg whites
60 g whipped egg whites
150 g granulated sugar
Elle & Vire products used

The recipe,
step by step

  1. 1

    Sablé breton

    Whisk the egg yolks with the sugar and add the softened butter. Switch to the paddle and add the sifted flour, baking powder. Keep refrigerated overnight and roll out the desired shape the next day. roll out to 4.5 mm and cut out 2 rectangles 55cm long (on silform). Bake at 150°c / 302°F.

  2. 2

    Lemond curd

    Place all the ingredients in a mixing bowl on a double boiler. cook until the consistency of custard.

  3. 3

    Lemon gelee

    Bring the 3 ingredients to a full boil. Pour into small rectangle moulds.

  4. 4

    Lemon mousseline

    Bring the lemon puree to a boil and add the milk. Mix the sugar with the corn starch and egg yolks, temper with the milk and pour back into the pan. Bring to a full boil while stirring (cook as custard). in a mixing bowl homogenize the pastry cream with the diced butter. Set aside to cool with a cling film on top.

  5. 5

    Marshmallow

    Step 1: heat the sugar, trimoline, glucose and water to 130°c / 266°F and pour to egg whites and egg whites powder

    Step 2: add the trimoline and cream of tartar.

    - 15 g trimoline 

    - 1 g cream of tartar

    Step3: addthemeltedgelatineandcitricacidattheend.

    - 13 g gelatine

    - 2 g citric acid or lemon juice - Vanilla bean or flavouring

  6. 6

    Macaroon

    Cook the sugar to 118°c / 244.4°F and pour into the whipped egg whites (italian meringue). Blend together the icing sugar and almond powder. Add the raw egg whites and make a smooth paste. Fold into the italian meringue. Bake at 150°c / 302°F for 12 mn. When baked, fill the shells with the lemon curd.

  7. 7

    Assembly

    Pipe plain balls of lemon mousseline on the edges of the tart. Pipe the lemon curd in the centre. add the lemon macaroon, marshmallow and lemon jelly. Decorate with white chocolate sticks, candied lemon, and lime zest.


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