LIME TART!

This is amazing. Bring this one to dinner parties. 

Crust Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups Blanched Almond Flour
• 1/2 tsp Sea Salt
• 1/4 cup Grapeseed Oil
• 1/4 cup Agave Nectar

Filling Ingredients

• 1/4 cup Grapeseed Oil
• 1/3 cup Agave Nectar
• 3 large Eggs
• 1/2 cup freshly squeezed Lime Juice

Directions

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

To make the crust:

• mix the almond flour and sea salt in a large bowl.  
• In a medium bowl mix together the grapeseed oil, agave nectar, and vanilla extract.  
• Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, mix well 
• Press the dough into the pie pan.  And bake until slightly golden.

Mine cooked for 13 minutes.  Give yourself anywhere between 10 and 15 minutes.

While the crust bakes start the filling:

• In a blender, combine the lime juice, grapeseed oil, agave nectar, and eggs.  
• Blend on high until smooth and frothy (1 minute).

When the crust is golden brown, take it out of the oven and pour the lime filling into the hot crust.  And then place it back, ever so carefully, into the oven.  Bake until the topping is golden brown.  Mind the crust.  Mine burned a little on the edges.  I baked it for 32 1/2 minutes.  I think I should have taken it out at 30.  But it was still delicious. I would suggest baking it for anywhere between 25 and 35 minutes.

Let it cool for 30 minutes and eat.  It will still be warm, and that’s good.

Leftovers

This recipe is my adaptation of Elana Amsterdam’s recipe for Lemon Bars.  This was a great experiment.  It’s amazing it turned out so well.

Blanched Almond Flour- You can get it at:http://store.honeyvillegrain.com/blanchedalmondflour5lb.aspx

Crust- This crust is essentially the same one that the Messy Chef uses for her Chocolate Mousse Pie (which is also a recipe from Elana Amsterdam).  One of the changes I made to Elana’s Lemon Bar Recipe is the proportions of agave and grapeseed oil in the crust.  This made the crust harder to manage (stickier) but it also gave it more substance.  The crust was chewy.  Which I really like.

Check out Elana Amsterdam’s book: “The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook”,  and check out her blog at elanaspantry.com

Lovelillian 

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