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Tourta de Bléa

Name: Tourta de Bléa
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Monaco
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 120g Butter; 100g Sugar; 3 Egg; 400g Spinach; 50g Raisins; 40g Pine Nuts; 1 Apples; 30g Parmesan cheese; from 1/2 Lemon zest; 2 tbsp Rum; To taste Powdered sugar

Dessert

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Chard sweetly baked with raisins and pine nuts in a tart — the curious sweet tart of Monaco and Nice.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Tourta de bléa is a sweet vegetable tart: Swiss chard (blette) leaves are mixed with raisins, pine nuts, apple, Parmesan, and sugar, wrapped in pastry, and baked. Turning vegetables into dessert is an unusual combination, but it has long been loved in Monaco and Nice, dusted with powdered sugar.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Monaco pastry shop, a round tart full of green leaves is dusted with powdered sugar and cut to show its cross-section.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

All-purpose flour 300g
Butter 120g
Sugar 100g
Egg 3
Spinach 400g
Raisins 50g
Pine Nuts 40g
Apples 1
Parmesan cheese 30g
Lemon zest from 1/2
Rum 2 tbsp
Powdered sugar To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring together the flour, butter, 40g sugar, and 1 egg into a dough and chill 30 minutes.
Soak the raisins in rum.
Boil the spinach, squeeze, chop, and mix with the raisins, pine nuts, grated apple, Parmesan, 2 eggs, 60g sugar, and lemon zest.
Line a pan with half the dough, fill, and cover with the rest.
Bake at 180°C for 40 minutes and dust with powdered sugar once cool.

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