Pear – Gorgonzola – Pie

Summary

Ingredients

• 4 tablespoon clarified butter
• 100 g flour
• 4 tablespoon walnuts, ground (or other nuts)
• 2 pear (s)
• 2 tablespoon lemon juice
• 100 g Goronzola
• 100 g quark
• 1 egg (s)
• salt and pepper
• 1 tablespoon chives
• nutmeg

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Instructions

1. Dough: boil clarified butter with 100 ml water, allow to cool. Mix the flour, salt and nuts in a mixing bowl and work in with the larded water with the dough hook or by hand, knead well. Brush a round springform pan (or tart pan) with a little oil and dust with flour. Roll out the dough thinly, line the bottom of the pan with it and form an approx. 2 cm high edge. I always put the dough in the mold and take a small pizza roll with which I can roll out the dough directly in the mold. Let it rest in the refrigerator for about 45 minutes.
2. In the meantime, halve the pears, remove the core, cut into small cubes (approx. 1 cm in size), drizzle with the lemon juice.
3. Preheat the oven to 200 ° and prebake the dough for five minutes.
4. Dice cheese, two tablespoon. keep back, mix with quark and egg. Season the cream with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Finally mix the pear cubes into the cream and distribute everything on the pre-baked cake. Scatter the retained cheese cubes on top.
5. Bake on the bottom shelf of the oven for about 20-25 minutes and / or until the surface is lightly brown. Sprinkle with chives before serving. This spicy cake is well suited as a starter or for the party buffet. If you prepare it for the main course, it is enough for a maximum of four people.