What makes a dessert totally irresistible" Well, if you ask me, it is a lot of things put together in perfect harmony. Taste, colour, flavour, texture and so on. When we think of desserts, we automatically think of sweet sensations in our mouth but did you ever wonder why a lot of recipes often include a pinch of salt" Salt is supposed to not only enhance the sweetness and uplift the experience but it brings out the existing flavours in the most delicious way. Just like salted caramel tastes better than caramel!

A few months ago I created a few salted dessert recipes for a magazine that I thought were too delicious not to share over here. This one is my favourite because it involves rosewater (obviously) with lots of crunchy surprises from the fresh pomegranate arils and the pistachios and it looks pretty too. As a little twist to the already amazing tasting dessert, I added salted pistachios instead of the plain ones. Sometimes a tiny little addition or substitute in a recipe can become a game changer. You really need to taste this one. It’s something very, very special.
If you want to make one single tart instead smaller tartlets, you can of course do that. It will yield an 8 inch round tart. The pastry or base here is baked while the filling is not. By all means you can use a no-bake crust using cookies or even a store bought pastry shell if that makes things easier for you.

Rosewater Tartlets With Pomegranate And Salted Pistachios

Makes 6 tartlets
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