Lemongrass Bars With Coconut Shortbread Crust Recipes

LEMON BARS WITH COCONUT SHORTBREAD CRUST

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 (second-lowest rack).
• Butter an 8 x 8-inch glass baking dish.
• To make the crust: combine flour, sugar and salt in a small processor; blend for about 5 seconds.
• Add in flaked coconut and cold butter; process until mixture resembles fine meal and clumps together.
• Press the dough over the bottom of prepared pan (do not pack to tightly).
• Bake for about 20 minutes or until crust is golden around the edges.
• In a medium bowl whisk together all the filling ingredients (except the powdered sugar) until smooth.
• Remove the crust from the oven and pour the filling over the hot crust.
• Return to the oven and bake until the filling begins to brown around the edges, and is JUST set and springy to the touch (around 25-30 minutes).
• Cool the lemon bars completely before slicing.
• Sift with powdered sugar.
• **NOTE** if you want to remove the bars from the baking dish before slicing them, place a piece of buttered foil on the bottom of the dish (leaving an overhang of foil) before patting in the crust mixture. When the bars are COMPLETELY cool, remove them with the foil overhang, my advise would be to place the bars in the fridge before removing them with the foil to avoid breakage of the crust.

LEMONGRASS BARS WITH COCONUT SHORTBREAD CRUST

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• CRUST:.
• Butter 13x9x2 inch metal baking pan.
• Using electric mixer, beat flour, coconut, powdered sugar and salt in large bowl until well blended.
• Add butter and beat on low until moist clumps form.
• Press dough onto bottom and 1/2 inch up the sides of the pan.
• Bake crust until golden (edges may be darker) -- about 25 minutes.
• FILLING:.
• Place sugar and lemongrass in processor and pulse until lemongrass is finely ground. Add lemon juice and process until well blended.
• Add eggs and process to blend.
• Add flour and pinch of salt -- pulse until smooth.
• Reduce oven to 325.
• Pour filling over hot crust and bake until filling is firm -- 22-23 minutes.
• Cool in pan on rack.
• Cut.
• Sprinkle with powdered sugar.