Strawberry Cardamon Tartelette

Strawberries and Cardamon are a natural combination! The cardamon really brings out the sweetness of the strawberries. It works especially good in pie! I had made some cherry rhubarb pie, but because of the lattice crust, I had leftover dough. I fortunately had some strawberries and cardamon as well so I decided to re-roll the dough and make some tartelettes! I guess this would be called Les tartelettes aux fraises avec rose sirop??

Strawberries are related to roses--they are both part of the Family Rosaceae, the rose family. The rose syrup really brings out the strawberries in this dish. Fresh strawberries and rose syrup are also an excellent combination.






Ingredients
Single recipe for tart and pie dough
Fresh Strawberries, stems removed and diced
Rose syrup
Dash of cardamon
Tartelette pans
Freshly whipped heavy cream

Procedure

Roll the dough out into a small circle.

Grease the tartelette pans with butter or a little bit of oil.

Gently place the dough circle on top of the tartelette pan. It could lay over like this:












Turn the the tartelette pan upside down and gently press into the dough to cut out a shape. Remove the excess dough and gently flip the pan over again. With your finger and thumb gently press the dough so it fits into the mould of the pan.

















Brush with a little butter.

Fill the tartelette pans with dried black beans and place in the oven. The beans will serve as a weight and prevent the dough from rising up.











Pop them into the oven and bake at 375 for 5 minutes. Check on the tartelettes regularly, making sure that their crust does not turn yellow, brown or burn. You want the crust to look almost white, but dry.

Remove from oven and let cool completely, about 45 minutes to an hour.

In the meantime, combine the strawberries, rose syrup and cardamon in a bowl and gently mix with a spoon.

After the tartelettes are cool, remove them gently from their molds.

Add the strawberry mix and serve with freshly whipped heavy cream, ice cream or gelato!

Delicious!

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