🇧🇿 How to Make Coconut Tart

Craving Coconut Tart? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Coconut Tart at home, in about 1 hr, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• Pastry: 2 cups plain flour
• 120g cold butter, cubed
• 2 tbsp sugar + ½ tsp salt
• 4 tbsp iced water
• Filling: 2 cups freshly grated coconut
• ¾ cup sugar
• ½ cup coconut milk
• 1 tsp vanilla + ½ tsp grated nutmeg
• 1 tbsp butter

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Rub the butter into the flour, sugar and salt, add the iced water and bring together without kneading. Chill 30 min.
2. Cook the grated coconut with the sugar, coconut milk, nutmeg and butter over a low heat for 12–15 min, stirring, until thick and sticky and pulling away from the pan.
3. Stir the vanilla in off the heat and let the filling cool completely. Hot filling melts the pastry and you get a soggy base.
4. Roll the pastry thin and cut discs. Put a spoon of filling on each, fold into a half-moon and crimp the edge.
5. Cut a small vent in the top of each so steam escapes.
6. Bake at 190°C for 20–25 min until golden. Also sold as 'tableta' in some places; the folded turnover version is the Belize City one.