Nonna's Crostata Recipe (Italian Jam Tart)

Nonna's Crostata Recipe (Italian Jam Tart)

Crostata is one of the most classic and iconic Italian desserts. This recipe makes the perfect dough (pasta frolla) just like nonna would make, and it's filled with beautiful strawberry jam. It's Italy in a dessert! You can even make it ahead of time, freeze it, and enjoy whenever you'd like!

Course Dessert

Cuisine Italian

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 30

Resting Time 1

Total Time 1

Servings people

Calories 583kcal

Author Pina Bresciani

Ingredients

3 ½ cups all purpose flour
1 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
2 egg yolks
1 ¼ cup butter at room temperature
zest of one lemon about 1 tbsp
1 ¼ cup strawberry jam

Instructions

In bowl of a KitcheAid mixer, stir together flour, sugar, and baking powder.
Fit the mixer with the paddle attachment, and add the eggs, egg yolk, butter and lemon zest.
Beat the ingredients together in the mixer until the dough starts to come together, until it almost forms a ball.
On a smooth surface, very gently form the dough into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and place in the fridge for one hour.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Remove dough from the fridge, remove ¼ of the dough, and roll the rest of the dough out with a rolling pin on a well floured surface until it's ⅛" thick.
Roll the dough on to the rolling pin, and transfer it to a tart pan.
Top dough with jam and spread it out evenly.
Cut strips from remaining dough, and make a lattice pattern on the crostata. Fold in the edges of the crostata over the lattices.
Bake crostata in the oven for about 30 minutes, or until dough is golden.
Remove from oven, let crostata cool completely (a few hours), slice and serve!

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Notes

This recipe uses quite a large tart pan - an 11 inch tart pan.
This recipe will produce a lot of extra dough. You can use the dough to make another crostata, a pastiera, or jam cookies.
If you are using a smaller tart pan than 11 inches, you could also halve the dough recipe.

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