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Title: Nectarine crostata (open pie)
Post by: hana on January 16, 2011, 12:46:56 pm
Nectarine crostata (open pie)

Adapted from the recipe in the Coles summer magazine

Serves 6

1 cup plain flour
1/4 cup caster sugar (made from raw sugar in TM)
75g butter
2 tbs orange juice
50g almond or hazelnut biscotti
2 nectarines (I used yellow flesh)
1 tsp icing sugar (made from raw sugar in TM)

1. Place flour, sugar and butter and OJ into TM and pulse on TURBO 3 times or until dough comes together.
2. Turn onto lightly floured surface and bring dough together into a disc shape. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 mins.
3. Pop Biscotti into TM and pulse on TURBO once or until crushed.
4. Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Line a pizza stone or baking tray with baking paper. Roll dough to a circle about 8mm thick. Place onto prepared tray. Roll pastry edges over to form a shell. Scatter over biscuits and top with nectarine wedges. Bake for 25 mins until crisp and golden.
5. Sprinkle with icing sugar and serve with warm double cream.

I made this tonight and it was a huge hit. I cooked it until the outside was quite brown and crispy and it was just delicious. The original recipe called for half polenta and half flour but I had run out of polenta so just used all flour and it was perfect. There is a picture in the current Coles Summer magazine and mine came out just like the pic - but was eaten before I had a chance to get a photo. You can lay the wedges in a circular pattern or random. Both look great.
Title: Re: Nectarine crostata (open pie)
Post by: cookie1 on January 17, 2011, 12:18:54 am
Thanks for the conversion. I had marked this to try. I'm glad it's so tasty.
Title: Re: Nectarine crostata (open pie)
Post by: quirkycooking on January 17, 2011, 02:43:57 am
Yum, got to try this one!!!  I'll just use my spelt cantucci instead of the biscotti - should work. Thanks!  :)
Title: Re: Nectarine crostata (open pie)
Post by: trudy on January 17, 2011, 05:52:23 am
Instead of the biscuits you could use this filling which is what I use in a plum & hazelnut crostata (Belinda Jeffery recipe)

Mix together in a bowl:-
1/4 cup roasted hazelnuts or almonds (finely chopped)
55 grm sugar
55 grm plain flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Sprinkle the pastry base evenly with the nut mixture,then sit the fruit on top.  Sprinkle with 1/2 cup sugar (You may not want
this much if the fruit is very sweet)

Title: Re: Nectarine crostata (open pie)
Post by: Katya on January 17, 2011, 09:10:09 am
Looks lovely - good one to save up for our summer.   Thanks for posting it
Title: Re: Nectarine crostata (open pie)
Post by: cookie1 on January 17, 2011, 09:15:55 am
I got some lovely white nectarines this morning. This could be on the menu this weekend.
Title: Re: Nectarine crostata (open pie)
Post by: hana on January 17, 2011, 12:55:19 pm
Trudy, that sounds delicious! Much better than the biscotti! Will try that next time :)
Title: Re: Nectarine crostata (open pie)
Post by: trudy on January 17, 2011, 11:24:18 pm
Hana try it with plums - especially the blood ones when they come into season - Wonderful!!!