Oven-dried tomato and taleggio tart with pesto
- Published: 24 Apr 15
- Updated: 18 Mar 24
This taleggio tart recipe showcases the intense flavour of the British tomato. Serve it with a side salad for dinner or serve small slices as a starter.
And we’ve got plenty more puff pastry recipes where that came from.
- Serves 6
- Takes 15 minutes to make, 35 minutes to cook, plus 20 minutes chilling
Ingredients
- 500g chilled block puff pastry
- Plain flour for dusting
- 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra to grease
- 250g taleggio cheese, thinly sliced
- 24 oven-dried tomatoes
- Small fresh basil leaves to garnish
For the pesto
- 40g fresh basil leaves
- 25g pine nuts
- 1 small garlic clove, crushed
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 25g finely grated parmesan
Method
- For the pesto, put the basil, pine nuts, garlic and oil into a mini food processor or pestle and mortar and blend/grind until smooth. Transfer to a small bowl, then stir in the parmesan and a little salt.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan180°C/gas 6. For the tart, roll out the puff pastry on a lightly floured surface into a 23cm x 33cm rectangle. Lift it onto a lightly greased baking sheet, prick here and there with a fork and chill for 20 minutes, then blind bake for 18-20 minutes until crisp and golden. Remove from the oven, carefully turn over and bake for 5 minutes more, then remove and carefully flip back over once more.
- Spread 3 tbsp of the pesto over the pastry, leaving a 2.5cm border all around. Arrange the taleggio slices and oven-dried tomatoes on top. Drizzle over 1 tbsp oil and bake for another 5-7 minutes until the cheese has just melted.
- Remove from the oven and cut into 8 pieces. Scatter with a few small basil leaves and serve warm.
- Recipe from August 2012 Issue
Nutrition
- Calories
- 621kcals
- Fat
- 46.9g (20.3g saturated)
- Protein
- 17.8g
- Carbohydrates
- 34.1g (2.9g sugars)
- Fibre
- 0.6g
- Salt
- 1.8g
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