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Roasted tomato tart with double-cheese crust
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- plus chilling
- Easy
- Serves 8
Skip to ingredients
- 3-4 onionssliced
- 1 tbsp butter
- olive oilfor drizzling
- 2 tsp sugarplus a pinch
- 2 thyme sprigsleaves stripped, plus an extra sprig
- 5 sageleaves, shredded then finely chopped
- 85g fresh breadcrumb
- 25g fresh parmesan(or vegetarian alternative), grated
- 500g tomato(a mix of varieties looks great), thickly sliced
For the pastry
- 300g plain flourplus extra for dusting
- 100g cold buttercubed
- 85g mature cheddarcubed
- ½ tsp salt
- 25g parmesan(or vegetarian alternative), grated
- green saladto serve (optional)
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal380
- fat19g
- saturates11g
- carbs42g
- sugars7g
- fibre4g
- protein11g
- salt1.1g
Method
step 1
Make the pastry first. Put the flour, butter, cheddar and salt in a food processor. Pulse a few times, just until the butter and cheese are in smaller pieces. Measure 150ml of very cold water into a jug. Drizzle the water into the pastry, little by little, pulsing between additions, until it comes together into a rough ball – it will feel quite doughy. Wrap in cling film and chill for 1 hr.
step 2
Meanwhile, in a pan over a low heat, very gently soften the onions in the butter and a drizzle of olive oil. Stir in the sugar, thyme and sage, turn up the heat and cook for a few mins more until golden and sticky. Season and set aside to cool a little.
step 3
Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Dust a big baking sheet with more flour, then roll out the pastry on it to a rough circle, a little more than 0.5cm thick. Mix the onions with the breadcrumbs and Parmesan.
step 4
Leaving a good 5cm border all the way round, spread the onion mixture over the base, then arrange the tomatoes on top. Hand-roll and pinch the pastry edges up around the filling, pressing firmly to hold. Scatter over more thyme, plenty of seasoning and a pinch of sugar. Can now be covered and chilled for up to 12 hrs.
step 5
Drizzle with a little olive oil and bake for 25 mins until the pastry is crisp and golden. Serve warm or at room temperature, with a big salad, if you like.
