Asparagus puff pastry tart with goats cheese Recipe
A flaky puff pastry tart filled with tender new potatoes and fresh garden asparagus, topped with rosemary and goat cheese. It’s served alongside a green salad drizzled with mustard dressing.
Ingredients
Pastry
- 10 grams plain flour
- 500 grams puff pastry
Tart
- 1 bunch asparagus
- black pepper (to taste)
- 1 sprig fresh rosemary
- 1 whole goats cheese log
- 200 grams potatoes(new)
- salt (to taste)
- 1 whole egg
Salad
- 100 grams cherry tomatoes
- 0.5 whole cucumber
- 40 grams Salad leaves
Dressing
- black pepper (to taste)
- 1 tsp wholegrain mustard
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- salt (to taste)
- 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 0.5 tsp Clear honey
Instructions
- remove the pastry from the freezer
- wash the new potatoes, half fill a medium pan with water and boil, add the potatoes, boil the potatoes till soft, Drain and rinse, slice the potatoes
- half fill a medium pan with water and boil, wash and remove the asparagus ends, add to the pan, boil the asparagus till soft, Drain and set a side
- slice the goats cheese log(s) into 2 cm width slices., wash and finely chop the fresh rosemary
- line a baking tray with greaseproof paper, roll out the pastry into a square 3 mm thick, cut the pastry into 4 squares, score a 2 cm border around each square, prick the pastry inside the square only, place on a baking tray
- set the oven to 200C 400F or gas mark 6, spread the potatoes and the aspargus over the pastry, sprinkle with rosemary, add the cheese, season with salt and pepper
- break the egg(s) into the shallow bowl and beat with a fork, Egg wash the border of the pastry, place in the oven, cook for 10 mins, until golden brown
- wash mixed leaves and place in a serving bowl. place a cross on the top of the cucumber, then slice the cucumber to form quarters, sprinkle over the salad leaves, wash the cherry tomatoes and then slice in half, sprinkle over the salad leaves
- while the pastry is cooking
- mix the dressing ingredients together in a bowl
- remove the tarts from the oven, place the tart on a serving plate, serve immediately
- add the salad
- add the dressing
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