Mushroom and artichoke tart
From The New Vegetarian (The Telegraph newspaper)
Puff Pastry:
From Better Homes and Gardens
125g butter, diced
1 C AP flour
125g cream cheese, diced
- Sprinkle butter over flour in a food processor, and pulse until just sandy.
- Add cream cheese and pulse a few times, until cream cheese begins to get incorporated.
- Turn out onto a clean surface, and use palms to push the dough out (at this stage it will be very sandy and not really a dough - you are basically pushing it together using your palm). There should still be streaks of cream cheese visible - this is what will make the pastry flaky.
- Flatten into a disk, wrap with cling wrap, and refrigerate for 2 hours.
- After chilling, lightly flour a clean surface and roll out the dough to ~0.5 cm thickness. Lay on a tray and trace out a circle. Dot the inside of the circle with a knife, then refrigerate while you make the filing.
750g mixed mushrooms, quartered if large
1 jar marinated artichokes, chopped
4 Tbs sour cream
100g shredded mild cheese - Gruyere or Colby, but not mozzarella
1 leek, sliced thinly
25g Butter
2 Tbs Oil
1 egg
Good pinch nutmeg and sage
Salt and pepper
- Preheat the oven to 200C.
- Melt half of butter and oil in a saucepan over high, then add the mushrooms and fry briskly, stirring occasionally, until golden and no liquid remaining. Put aside in a large bowl.
- Reduce the heat to low and add remaining butter and oil. Add leek and cover with a lid, allowing leeks to sweat until soft but not coloured. Add to the mushrooms, along with the artichokes and three-quarters of the cheese. Season lightly.
- Beat sour cream, eggs, nutmeg and sage in a separate bowl, then add to the vegetables and fold together.
- Spread over the pastry, making sure that the edge is free of filling, then brush the border of the pastry sparingly with egg yolk.
- Bake for 30 minutes, or until golden brown and crisp.
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