Chocolate and Pear Crostata Marisa's Italian Kitchen

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Preheat oven to 400°. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. In a large stainless steel skillet, place pears cut side down. Add port and ½ cup brown sugar, and bring to a simmer. Cover, and let simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat, and turn pears; let stand for 15 minutes. Remove pears, reserving liquid.

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Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Place rack in the center of the oven (this will help prevent the top of the crostata from burning). To make the dough, in a medium size bowl, combine flour and salt, whisk together. Add the cold cubed butter, using a pastry blender, cut for 1 minute (you don't want the butter to get too small).

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Peel, quarter, and core pears, apples, and quince, then cut into 1-inch chunks. Toss fruit with sugar, lemon juice, ginger, cinnamon stick, cloves, and 1 tablespoon apple cider in a bowl. Transfer.

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Prepare the pears. Peel the pear and cut it in half, discard the seeds and then cut it into thin slices. Place a pan over medium heat, add 1 1/4 cups (300 ml) of water and the sugar stirring until is dissolved. Add the pears and cook for about 10 to 12 minutes or until the pears are tender but not falling apart.

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Preparation. Step 1. Make the dough: Heat oven to 375 degrees. In a stand mixer or in a bowl with a sturdy whisk, beat together sugar, salt, eggs and butter. Fold in flour and knead the dough into a ball. Squash the dough into a disk, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least an hour or up to 2 days before using.

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In medium bowl, mix 1/2 cup sugar and the flour. Gently stir in pears to coat. 2. Remove 1 pie crust from pouch; unroll crust into ungreased 15x10-inch pan with sides. 3. Spoon pear mixture onto center of crust to within 2 inches of edge. Carefully fold 2-inch edge of crust up over pear mixture, pleating crust slightly as necessary.

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Arrange the pears in concentric circles in 2 layers on top of almond cream circle. Sprinkle the cranberries on top of the pears. Fold the edges of the dough in, slightly covering the pears, to.

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Fan the sliced pear out and place it in the center of the tart. Fold the edges of the crust up and over the pears, forming pleats. Press the pleats together and press the crust into the pears. Refrigerate the tart for at least an hour and up to one day before baking. When ready to bake, heat the oven to 350 degrees F.

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In a medium bowl, massage the sugar and lemon zest with your fingers to release the essential oils. Add the ginger and toss together with the lemon juice, vanilla bean (or extract), add a pinch of flakey salt. Stir until well combined and set aside. Remove dough from the fridge and allow to sit for 5-10 minutes.

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Fan the apples and pears around the crust, again leaving the border around the outside of the pie crust. Pull a small section of the crust up and over the fruit, turn the pan and pull up another section until you have gone completely around the pan. The middle section of the tart will be open. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

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Take the pan off of the heat and stir in the brown sugar, honey and heavy whipping cream. Put back over medium heat and gently stir for 2 minutes more. Take off of the heat again and stir in the ginger, vanilla and sea salt. Set aside to cool a bit. *The sugar may not completely dissolved in the pan.

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Cut each quarter into big chunks. Toss the chunks with the orange zest. Divide the pear chunks between the pastries, covering the dough and leaving a 1 1/2-inch border. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of.

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Mix both flours, sugar and salt in processor. Add butter and shortening. Using on/off turns, process until butter and shortening form pea-size pieces. Mix in enough ice water to form moist clumps.

Chocolate and Pear Crostata Marisa's Italian Kitchen

This pear crostata is so good that it will take a lot of restraint not to devour the whole tart. The short-crust pastry dough is much like shortbread and filled with a silky-rich chocolate and walnut filling. Part of the appeal of this Italian crostata is the juicy pear halves, which are sliced and nestled over the chocolate filling..

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Let it soften until pliable (your finger will leave an indentation when lightly pressed), 10 - 15 minutes depending on the temperature in your kitchen. Meanwhile, stir together the sugar, cardamom, ginger and lemon zest in a small bowl until it looks like wet sand. Set aside. Cut the pears in half and remove the cores.

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For the dough, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a food processor. Pulse just to combine. Scatter in the butter pieces and pulse until the butter is the size of peas. Combine the egg and 2 tablespoons cold water in a small bowl and pour over the flour. Pulse just until the dough comes together in loose crumbs.