Greek Apricot Jam Tart (Pasta Flora)
Greek Apricot Jam Tart (Pasta Flora)

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, greek apricot jam tart (pasta flora). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

When rolling your dough snakes, work at a brisk pace and I recommend you use a bit of flour to roll with. Jam choice is completely up to you. The most well-known pasta flora filling to me is apricot jam with it's gorgeous sunshiny orange glow and pictured.

Greek Apricot Jam Tart (Pasta Flora) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Greek Apricot Jam Tart (Pasta Flora) is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook greek apricot jam tart (pasta flora) using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Greek Apricot Jam Tart (Pasta Flora):
  1. Get 3 cups All Purpose Flour
  2. Get 250 grams Apricot Jam
  3. Take 1/2 cup Sugar
  4. Get 250 grams Butter at room temperature
  5. Make ready 1 Egg and 1 extra Egg White
  6. Take 1 shot Cognac
  7. Prepare 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
  8. Make ready 1 Lemon zest

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Instructions to make Greek Apricot Jam Tart (Pasta Flora):
  1. In a large bow add flour and sugar combine dry ingredients.
  2. Add in the baking powder, egg, butter and lemon zest.
  3. Continue by adding the shot of Cognac.
  4. Mix all the ingredients by hand until it becomes a fluffy dough. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and put in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
  5. Once the dough has cooled, separate about 100 grams of the dough to make the dough stripes that will be layered. Roll out the rest of the dough and place it into the tart pan so this becomes a tart shell.
  6. We usually make our own Jam but since Apricots are not in season, we found ready made apricot jam in the super market today. You can use any fruit jam you enjoy eating. Spread jam nicely in shell.
  7. Roll out the remaining dough into flat stripes, or you can make ropes by rolling the small pieces of dough with your hands. (These should be approximately about 1/2 finger’s width) Start layering strips on top of the jam. With the extra egg white brush lightly over stripes to get that golden brown color. 🙂 - - Pre-heat oven at 180 degrees and bake for 1 hour. - - Kali Orexi!!! 🙂

Pasta flora is actually a well loved Greek jam tart, made with whatever jam you fancy. Greeks aren't big on breakfast, but a slice of this is a favourite mid-morning. Instead of the vanilla, you can use brandy for an authentic Greek touch. SEE ALSO Chocolate and Pear Tart. Lattice-work topping makes Pasta Flora look like it takes a lot of effort.

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