Name: Caramelised pear tart
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: serving
Cuisine: Fruit
Ingredients: 60 g butter; 90 ml brown sugar; 5 ml fresh ginger finely grated; 2 pears ripe, cored and cut into 1.5cm slices; 1 puff pastry ready-made; 100 g almonds flaked, toasted; fresh mint sprig, to garnish; crème fraîche or ice cream, to serve

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Ingredients (8)

60 g	butter
90 ml	brown sugar
5 ml	fresh ginger — finely grated
2	pears — ripe, cored and cut into 1.5cm slices
1	puff pastry — ready-made
100 g	almonds — flaked, toasted
	fresh mint — sprig, to garnish
	crème fraîche — or ice cream, to serve

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Oven temperature: 180°C

Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add the sugar and stir over a low heat until the sugar has dissolved. Stir in the ginger and pour the syrup into a 25cm round pie dish.
Place the pears evenly around the base of the dish. Cut some of the slices smaller to fill in all the spaces.
Cut the pastry in a circle that is slightly larger than the dish. Place the pastry over the pears and use a palette knife to press it against the edge of the dish. Bake in a preheated oven for 25 minutes or until the pastry is light brown. Leave to cool for 10 minutes.

Use the palette knife to loosen the pastry from the dish. Place a serving plate upside down over the pie dish. Turn the plate and dish over in one movement then carefully remove the dish. Sprinkle the almonds over or around the tart and garnish with mint. Serve with crème fraîsche or ice cream.

Makes: 1 x 25cm tart

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