Wednesday 8 September 2010

Suprise Tatin

This is a very tasty recipe, best to use ready rolled pastry, we used a rectangular baking dish to bake it in and then turn it upside down to serve.

serves 4
200g cherry tomatoes
2 tablespoons olive oil
500g baby potatoes
1 large onion
40g sugar
10g butter
2 tsp oregano
150g hard goats cheese
1 sheet of puff pastry
salt and pepper
parchment paper
oven 130C

First the Tomatoes

Cut them in half on a baking sheet, drizzle with oil and salt and pepper. place in oven for 45mins to dry.

Then potatoes

Boil for 25mins in salted water, cut into 1 to 2cm discs.

Then onions

Fry the onion with the oil and some salt for 10mins until golden brown.

Brush the baking dish with oil (we used a rectangular dish but the recipe says 22cm round cake tin)
cut parchment paper to line the bottom. In a small pan cook the sugar and butter on a high heat stirring constantly with a wooden spoon to get a semi dark caramel. Pour the caramel evenly over the bottom scatter the oregano.

Lay the potato slices close toggehter, cut side down on the bottom of the tin Gently press onion and tomatoes into the gaps and sprinkle gently with salt and pepper. Spread the slice of goats cheese evenly over the potatoes . Cut puff pastry to fit and put on the top, gently tucking the edges in.

Pre heat oven to 200C and bake the tart for 25mins turn it down and bake for 15mins , though we found it took a lot less time say 20 mins.
Turn it upside down to serve, yes you can, be careful its very hot.

2 comments:

zed said...

hard goats cheese? so thats just like normal goats cheese?!

Mollie said...

Well there is a soft cheese in a round shape, for example Cornish Gervik I think,- and there is a rectangular hard cheese , this is the one we used tesco own brand. I got it online, looked at the close up of the product and it said hard, it's very mild ,nice.