Pear Tart – A Recipe For A Gluten-free Cake!
Are you looking for a recipe for a quick and healthy cake? Pear tart is a great choice, especially for chilly autumn days. It is delicious, healthy, gluten-free and contains very little sugar!
Recently, the desire to replace unhealthy traditional pastries with healthy cakes and desserts has been increasing. More and more of us are also reaching for fresh fruit as a snack between meals. So let’s use the pear season and make a sensational tart that will surely appeal to everyone!
The pear tart below is a healthy variation on the classic pear cake. In the recipe, refined white sugar was replaced with cane sugar, and its amount was also reduced to a minimum. In addition, the rest of the ingredients are 100% natural products with high nutritional value.
Get to know the list of products and start baking as soon as possible!
Tart with pears, or pear in the lead role
The main character of our cake is, of course, a pear. Its flesh is soft and creamy, and at the same time watery – hence it is perfect for culinary experiments.
At this time of the year, we have plenty of pears! Go to the market or your neighbor and pick ripe fruit. Use them as best you can – they are full of the most valuable nutrients right now.
While there are many different varieties of pears, almost all are suitable for making desserts. Spanking, conference, lukasówka, commission house … They are all healthy, delicious and irreplaceable for autumn baking.
Pears – properties and health benefits
- Pears are low-calorie fruits. This fact will certainly please people who are overweight and keep in shape. 100 grams of sweet flesh is only 53 calories !
- They are an extremely valuable source of dietary fiber, including pectin. This substance prevents, among other things, flatulence, constipation, improves digestion, soothes heartburn, and prevents the formation of hemorrhoids. What’s more, fiber facilitates the absorption of nutrients from food and helps maintain the proper level of cholesterol in the blood.
- They are rich in B vitamins (especially B1, B2 and niacin), which have a positive effect on the condition of the nervous, digestive and cardiovascular systems. In addition, they stimulate the renewal of skin cells, by supporting skin and hair regeneration.
- They fight free radicals. There are valuable antioxidants in the peel of a pear that help protect our body from infection and damage caused by free radicals.
- They contain glutathione, an antioxidant that naturally reduces high blood pressure and reduces the risk of brain injury.
- They are a real treasury of nutrients valuable to the body. They contain, among others, vitamins A and C. Moreover, they are rich in minerals such as magnesium, calcium, potassium, phosphorus and copper.
Rice flour – an option for people allergic to gluten
An important ingredient in our today’s pear tart is also rice flour. Did you know that you can prepare it yourself at home with a blender or coffee grinder? It is enough to grind grains of white or brown rice to coarse or fine dust.
The great advantage of rice flour is that it does not cause allergies or allergies. In addition, it is much less caloric than wheat flour, and also has a lower glycemic index.
It is also a good source of B vitamins, which are primarily responsible for the proper functioning of the nervous system and metabolic changes in the body.
Pear tart – get to know the recipe
Tart with pears is a very simple baking, the basis of which is a delicate and fluffy cake. Although today we present a version with a pear in the lead role, you might as well use apples or any other seasonal fruit.
The recipe for the following cake is a proposal for a classic “pear” or apple pie. The bottom is a fluffy cake and the top is fruit. If you want, you can prepare a fruit mix, combining, for example, pear with apple, pomegranate, pumpkin, cranberry, wild fruit, etc.
From the recipe presented below, there are about four large portions of dough. If you want, you can double the ingredients and bake a large tart. Take a look at your plate and calculate the appropriate proportions.
Skladná iki
- 2 large ripe pears
- 2 eggs (60 g)
- ½ cup of applesauce (100 g)
- ½ glass of natural yoghurt (preferably Greek) (100 g)
- 2 tablespoons of rice flour (30 g)
- ½ cup of brown sugar (100 g)
- 3 tablespoons of ground almonds (45 g)
- Freshly squeezed juice from one lemon
- Ground cinnamon (to taste)
- Pinch of salt
A method of preparing
- First, preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
- Then grease a medium-sized pan or line it with baking paper. You can also use a special form for baking muffins – this way you will get ready-made portions and you will not have to cut the dough.
- The next step is to wash and cut the pears into thin slices. To do this, cut the fruit in half, remove the seed nests and slice. Put them in a bowl, drizzle with lemon juice to keep them from darkening, and set aside for a while.
- Now take care of the eggs. Separate the whites from the yolks.
- In a bowl, mix yogurt, egg yolks, sugar and applesauce. Keep mixing until you get a homogeneous mass.
- Then add ground almonds, rice flour, cinnamon and a pinch of salt to it. Stir well so that all lumps are gone.
- In another dish, beat the egg whites until stiff.
- Slowly add the foam to the prepared dough, stirring constantly – but gently so that the foam does not fall off.
- Finally, pour the dough onto a greased or baking sheet lined with baking paper. Place the pear, thinly sliced, on top. Press them a little into the dough. Sprinkle lightly with powdered sugar and cinnamon.
- Put in a preheated oven for about 40 minutes. Watch the dough, and when the top is appetizingly golden, insert a stick into it to make sure that the pear tart is well done.
- Cool the dough and serve it to plates!
Pear tart tastes great with green tea or black coffee. Remember that this is a low-calorie dessert and without any remorse you can indulge in it from time to time!
