Cranberry Walnut Tarts - Keto Low Carb Vegetarian Recipes (2024)

Pastry

• ½ cup coconut flour
• ½ cup butter
• ½ cup monk fruit sweetener or other low carb sweetener
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 medium egg

Filling

• 3 oz cranberries fresh
• 5 tablespoons brown monkfruit or other low carb brown sweetener
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ cup water
• ¼ teaspoon xathan gum
• 4 oz walnuts chopped

Make the Pastry

• Place the pastry ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth and a dough appears.

• Remove the dough and shape into a ball. Cover with parchment paper and place in the fridge for 30 minutes to chill.

Make the Filling

• In a small saucepan, add the water, cranberries, brown sweetener and cinnamon. Bring to the boil and simmer for 2-3 minutes until the cranberries are soft.

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• Add the xanthan gum, stir well and cook for a further minute. You want to see the sauce thicken slightly (it will thicken more once cool).

• Remove the cranberry mixture from the heat and set aside to cool.

• Stir in the chopped walnuts.

Assemble

• Preheat the oven to 190C/375F degrees.

• Remove the pastry from the fridge and roll into 20 balls

• Place them in a mini muffin tin (you will need to do 2 batches as most mini muffin tins have 16 spaces)

• Press the pastry balls into the muffin tin making sure that there is a large “well” in the middle and spread the edges out.

• Spoon in the cranberry walnut filling.

• Bake for 20-25 minutes until the tart edges are golden.

• Set aside to cool before removing from the tin.

Makes 20 mini tartlets. You could make 16 to fit a mini muffin tin with a thicker crust.

The net carbs will be the total carb count minus the fibre count. Carb count excludes sugar alcohols.

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