How to Make Mango Tarts At home, Simple Recipe
Add a fruit-filled dessert to your recipe lineup with a show-stopping Mango Tarts. Top down view of easy mango tarts with vanilla bean pastry cream on a white plate. If you’ve ever lived in or traveled to the southern California city of Del Mar, chances are you’ve heard of Urban Pi’s mango tarts. I had my first slice of the restaurant’s legendary dessert way back in high school, and it’s only taken me two decades to muster up the culinary courage to tackle a DIY version at home.
Sliced mango tart with vanilla bean pastry cream next to two forks
So here we have it, the one and only recipe for the ultimate Mango Tarts.
Ingredients to make Mango Tarts:
- 1½ cups (190g) Flour
- One fourth cup (50g) Powdered sugar
- A egg
- Half cup (115g) Butter
- One fourth teaspoon Salt
- teaspoon 1 Vanilla extract
Ingredients for Filling:
- Twelve 12oz (340g) Mango puree/mango pulp (about 2 large mangos)
- 1 Egg + 2 egg yolks
- Half cup + 2 Tbsp. (125g) Sugar
- A tablespoon Lemon juice
- teaspoon Lemon zest 1
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup (180ml) Heavy cream
DIRECTIONS:
1. Make the dough: In a food processor, combine the flour, sugar, and salt. Process few seconds until combined. Add cubed butter and pulse until crumbs are formed. And egg, vanilla extract and pulse until dough is formed.
2. Flatten into disk, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
3. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured board. Lightly dust the top of the dough or the rolling pin with flour as needed. roll until the dough is about 1/8 inch thick.
4. Transfer the dough to a 9-inch (23-24 cm) tart pan. Evenly press the pastry onto the bottom and up the sides of your pan. off the top of the tart pan. Gently pierce the bottom of the crust with a fork. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
5. Preheat oven to 400F (200C).
6. Make the filling: Dice the flesh of the mango, place in a food processor or a blender, process until completely smooth.
7. In a large bowl whisk eggs and sugar until smooth. Add mango puree, cream, vanilla extract, lemon juice and lemon zest. Stir until combined.
8. Place the crust in the oven, pour mango filling in to the crust. Bake for 8-10 minutes, reduce heat to 325F (160C) and bake for 25-30 minutes more, until completely set.
9. Let cool to room temperature, then refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
