Cherry & apple tart
Servings 2 servings
Ingredients
The filling:
- 2 apples (cooking apples or regular apples – Cox and Braeburn apples go very well)
- 2 pears
- 200 g cherries (weight before removing pips)
- 12 prunes
- 1 tsp cinnamon
The base:
- 80 g coconut oil
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- 100 g oats
- 80 buckwheat flour (or ground almonds)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 160 deg C and line 2 small tart baking trays with coconut oil.
- Chop and core apples and pears.
- In a pan, heat up 100ml water and simmer the chopped apples and pears on a low heat for 15 minutes.
- While the apples and pears are simmering, slice the cherries in half and remove the pips.
- Take half of the cooked apple and pear mix and blend in a food processor with the prunes (stones removed).
- Add the blended apple, pear and prune mix back into the pan, add the cinnamon and stir well.
- Add the halved cherries to the apples and pears in the pan and simmer for 5 more minutes.
- While the fruit is simmering, start to prepare the base. Firstly, melt the coconut oil in a pan on a low heat for a few minutes until liquid.
- Grind the chia seeds in a coffee / spice grinder (chia seeds can also be bought ready ground).
- In a large bowl, mix the ground chia seeds, oats, buckwheat.
- Add the water and coconut oil to the dry ingredients in the large bowl and stir well until thoroughly mixed to form a dough like consistency.
- Separate the mix out into 2 parts roll flat with a rolling pin, and place into 2 small trays, approx 12cm diameter, 4cm deep.
- Bake in the oven at 160 deg C for 30 minutes.