Shortcrust pastry
Recipe highlights
Total cooking time:
30 min
Category:
Low Protein Diet - Exchange value 0*
Servings:
10 (1x20cm tart dish)
Ingredients**
- 200g Loprofin Mix
- 50g cold butter cut into cubes
- 50g cold hard white fat cut into cubes
- 2 tsp Loprofin Egg Replacer
- Ice cold water
Method
- Place the Loprofin Mix and Loprofin Egg Replacer in a bowl
- Rub the fats into the Loprofin mix until it looks like breadcrumbs
- Add iced water to the mixture 1 tbsp at a time until the pastry forms a soft dough (the feel of playdough)
- Wrap in cling film and chill for 20 minutes
- Roll out the pastry to the size needed
Chef tips
- When rolling the pastry out, roll between 2 sheets of baking parchment as this will stop it from sticking and making a mess
- We use this pastry for jam tarts, lemon meringue tart, mince pies, quiches, flans and custard tart’s.