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Rhubarb and ricotta tart

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for rhubarb and ricotta tart by Hamish Ingham from Sydney restaurant The Woods.

By Hamish Ingham
  • 30 mins preparation
  • 25 mins cooking plus cooling, macerating
  • Serves 6
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Rhubarb and ricotta tart
“Please ask Hamish Ingham to share the recipe for the rhubarb tart he serves at The Woods.”
Andrew Walter, Waverton, NSW
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Ingredients

  • 200 gm caster sugar
  • 300 gm rhubarb, trimmed, cut into 5cm lengths (about ½ bunch)
  • 375 gm sheet butter puff pastry
  • 100 gm firm ricotta
  • Finely grated rind of 1 lemon
  • 1 egg yolk, lightly beaten for eggwash
  • To serve: honeycomb, vanilla ice-cream, and strawberries, hulled, halved
Frangipane
  • 20 gm softened butter
  • 20 gm pure icing sugar, sieved
  • Scraped seeds of 1 vanilla bean
  • 20 gm almond meal
  • ½ egg, lightly beaten

Method

Main
  • 1
    Bring sugar and 200ml water to the simmer in a saucepan over medium heat, stirring to dissolve sugar, then set aside to cool. Add rhubarb and refrigerate to macerate (1 hour). Strain and set aside.
  • 2
    For frangipane, beat butter, sugar and vanilla seeds in a bowl until pale (3-5 minutes), add almond meal and egg and stir to combine.
  • 3
    Preheat oven to 190C. Roll pastry to a 40cm x 15cm rectangle, spread frangipane over, leaving a 3cm border, then scatter with rhubarb. Combine ricotta and lemon rind in a bowl and spoon over tart. Crimp pastry edges to form a border, brush edges with eggwash and bake until golden (15-20 minutes). Serve with honeycomb, ice-cream and strawberries.

Notes

This recipe is from the April 2013 issue of .

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