Ingredients
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1/2 cup slivered almonds
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2 tablespoons grapeseed oil
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4 tablespoons maple syrup
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1 cup brown rice flour or 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
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1/4 teaspoon salt
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14 ounces coconut milk
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1 1/2 cups water
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1 cup raw sugar
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4 tablespoons agar-agar flakes (or nearly 3 tsp agar powder)
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3/4 cup fresh lemon juice
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1 1/2 tablespoons lemons, zest of
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1/8 teaspoon turmeric (don't add more than this as it will affect the taste--it's purely for colour)
Instructions
- Preheat to 350°F Lightly grease a 9" tart pan.
- Mix the ingredients together and press into the bottom of the dish.
- (It is a dryish mixso you can add more oil although it is not necessary).
- If you're using a proper metal tart pan, press the dough up the fluted sides.
- Prick the bottom a few times with a.
- fork.
- Bake for approx 20 min, until brown.
- Let cool before adding filling.
- Dissolve arrowroot in 1/2 cup of water and set aside.
- Filling: Mix coconut milk, 1 cup of the water, sugar, agar& turmeric into a saucepan.
- Simmer until agar dissolves (usually takes between 6-8 minutes for flakes, a. little less time for powder--don't over cook or agar will lose its strength).
- Stir in the lemon juice, zest& vanilla then bring to a boil.
- Add the arrowroot/water mixture and boil for one minute.
- [It'simportant to stir throughout as you don't want the agar to clump up along the bottom of the pan.
- You'll feel it thicken up when you add the arrowroot.
- mix.
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- Pour into the cooled crust and let firm up before serving.