Information
Course: dessert
Total time: under 2 hours
Skill level: Moderate
Cost: Inexpensive
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients
- 1 recipe Pie Dough, made with butter
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 8 egg yolks, at room temperature
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- Six 3½-inch shallow tartlet molds
Directions
Use the pie dough to make 6 pastry shells. Bake thoroughly and set aside to cool.
Place the lime juice, 1 cup of water, and the sugar in a saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat. Meanwhile, in a mixing bowl, dissolve the cornstarch in ½ cup water. Whisk in the egg yolks. Slowly pour 1 cup of the boiling lime syrup into the yolk mixture and blend it thoroughly. Pour the mixture back into the saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat, add the butter and mix.
Pour into the pre-baked tart shells and let set for about 30 minutes before serving.
Nutritional Information
Nutrients per serving
Nutritional information does not include Pie Dough. For nutritional information on Pie Dough, please follow the link above.
175 kcal
3 % daily value
0 % daily value
4 % daily value
30 mg
2 mg
4 g
17 g
0 g
19 g
290 mg
12 mg
5 g
10 g
4 % daily value