Recipe No.27 - Strawberry and Pistachio Tart

Strawberry and Pistachio Tart, requested by work!
This requires very little actual baking but is very time consuming.

First the pastry is made including ground pistachio's to give it a lovely nutty flavour, after 30 minutes chilling it is rolled into a circle and pricked all over with a fork. In the book it suggested pinching around the edges to give a fluted look which I attempted. Before baking it looked nice but during the baking the edges blurred slightly.

After the pastry base was cooked and cooled I hulled the strawberries and heated the raspberry jam, these are then placed on the base and the glaze brushed on, finally topping with chopped pistachios.

I didnt really enjoy making this for some reason, I think it was because it didn't involve doing very much and I kept having to stop and start waiting for it to chill, cook, cool etc.

However it did taste really nice and was good to have some fresh fruit to make me feel less guilty about eating it!