Strawberry & Chocolate Tart with Walnut Crust

By laurie-2

Ingredients

• Crust
• 1 c flour
• 3 tbs sugar
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/3 c walnuts
• 1/2 c chilled unslated butter, cut into 1/2 pieces
• 2 egg yolks
• 1/3 c strawberry jam
• Filling
• 3/4 c plus 2 tbs whilling cream
• 6 oz bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped
• 2 1 pint baskets strawberries

Details

Servings 6

Preparation

Step 1

For crust:
Combine flour, sugar and salt in processor and mix. Add walnuts, process until chopped. Add butter and cut in using on/off turns until mixture resembles course meal. Add yolks and process just until moist clumps form. Gather dough into ball, flatten to disk, wrap in plastic & chill 30 min.

Preheat oven 375. Butter 9" tart pan. Roll out dough between sheets of waxed paper. Transfer crust to prepared pan, pressing dough firmly to fit pan, patching if necessary. Trim edges of crust, freeze 15 minutes. Bake until golden brown, about 25 minutes. Spread jam in crust. Return to oven and bake until jam sets. about 4 minutes. Cool completey on rack.

For Filling:
heat cream in heavy small saucepan over med-low heat until tiny bubbles appear around edges. Remove from heat. Add chocolate and stir until melted. Cool to room temperature and beginning to thicken but still pourable. Pour chocolate filling into crust. Refrigerate until filling is set, about 1 hr 45 min.

Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refirgerate.

Arrange strawberries cut side down in concentric circles atop filling.