Carthage Tunisie – El Falleh

Carthage jam tart

Ingredients  :

  • ✓ 300 g flour
  • ✓ 2 eggs
  • ✓ 1 sachet vanilla sugar
  • ✓ 150 g butter
  • ✓ 25 g sugar
  • ✓ 1 pinch salt or fine salt
  • ✓ 1 jar Carthage jam (quince, apricot, strawberry or fig, the choice is yours).

Recipe steps :

  • 1. Flour + sugar + salt + vanilla + butter + 2 eggs.
  • 2. Roll out your dough to a diameter of 25 cm and set the excess dough loose from the edges of the mould to one side.the sides of the tin.
  • 3. Prick the bottom with a fork and bake for 10 min in a hot oven.
  • 4. Meanwhile, gather the remaining dough into a ball. Roll out into an elongated rectangle and cut into 5-6 cm-wide strips.
  • 5. Cut the remaining dough into strips.
  • 6. As soon as the tart comes out of the oven, fill the bottom with Carthage jam (quince, apricot,strawberry or fig, the choice is yours).
  • 7. Then decorate the top with the pastry strips laid in a lattice pattern.
  • 8. Bake for 15min without opening the oven. Wait until the tart is lukewarm before unmolding.