Community Kitchen: Savoury Tart

veriterc
veriterc Online Community Member Posts: 247 Empowering
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Savoury Tart

This tart is ideal for a special occasion, but doesn’t cost much to make,  Basic ingredients are a pack of Filo pastry, cheese, cream to bind it and a vegetable of your choice:  tomatoes, leeks, broccoli, spinach etc., anything that is cheap or going spare.
Ingredients (for 3 – 4)
  • 1½ tbsp olive oil, plus extra for greasing
  • 4 sheets filo pastry, roughly half a pack
  • 100g/3½oz mature cheddar, or similar hard cheese, finely grated
  • 5 tbsp single cream
  • 1 large leek, trimmed and very thinly sliced Or/ 1/2 lb sliced tomatoes Or/ 1/2 lb softish veg. of your choice/
  • salt and black pepper
  • baking dish

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6. Lightly oil a 20cm/8in cake tin. Oil a baking tin – If it has a removable base you can add excitement by turning it out, but a basic baking dish will do,

  2. To make the tart. One at a time, lightly brush a filo pastry sheet with a little of the oil and place in the tin, pressing gently into the base and up the sides of the tin. Arrange the next lightly oiled pastry sheet at right angles to the first. Repeat with two more layers, leaving a flat base and frilly edges.

  3. Mix the cheese with the cream to make a soft paste. Drop teaspoonfuls of the paste over the pastry case and spread lightly with the back of a spoon, taking care not to tear the pastry.

  4. Top the cheese mixture with the sliced veg and season with a little black pepper. If the pastry edges hang over the tin too much (this will depend on the size of the sheets), roll loosely back towards the filling. Bake the tart for about 25 minutes, or until the pastry is crisp and golden brown and the veg are softened. Remove from the oven to cool slightly.

  5. And enjoy!

Comments

  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,452 Championing
    Thank you for sharing another recipe with us @veriterc! :) 
  • L_Volunteer
    L_Volunteer Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 7,922 Championing
    Mmmm this looks delicious @veriterc! I agree with @Tori_Scope, thank you for sharing it with us.

    Is this something you have made or tested? I am intrigued  :)
  • veriterc
    veriterc Online Community Member Posts: 247 Empowering
    This came about because I had some cream going spare, and some Filo pastry, and all the other things were in my fridge, incluIding some veg. that definitely needed to be used up.  So it was all spare 'stuff'!  I don't imagine I will have similar spare stuff next time, so will throw other things together.   
  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 13,127 Championing
    Thank you for sharing 
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    *Drools all over keyboard* This one is being saved and tried, thank you @veriterc

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