Italian Sunday! Crostata di Frutta- Fruit Crostata with Chef Filomena

Italian Sunday! Crostata di Frutta- Italian fruit pie using fresh spring berries with Chef Filomena

Bring in the Summer with a delicious fruit pie!

For the Pastry:

300 g Flour ‘00’

130 g Butter

70 g Sugar

1 Egg + 1 Egg Yolk

Grated peel of One Lemon

A pinch of Salt

For the Cream:

½ ltr Milk

2 Fresh Eggs

4 Spoons of Sugar

2 Spoons of Flour

Grated Peel of One Lemon

For the Topping:

500 g of Strawberry or blueberries or kiwi or black berries.

For the Pastry, put the flour on the table and make a hole in the middle, in the hole put the eggs, the butter cut into little cubes, the sugar, the grated peel of lemon and the salt and mix with your hands for 10 minutes so you can make a ball. Then put it in a cloth in the fridge for 15 minutes.

When it is firm, put on the table with the flour and spread it with a rolling pin.

For the Cream, in a casserole put the sugar with the eggs and mix all with a wooden spoon so as to form an even mixture, then add the flour slowly while stirring all the time. Slowly add the milk and the grated lemon peel and mix everything.

Put the casserole on the fire and continue to stir. When the mixture begins to boil the cream is ready.

Enjoy!

By Chloe