Goat's Cheese Tart Recipe
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 18 minutes
Serves: 6 people
Ingredients Needed
- 3 x 110g/3.9oz goat's cheese logs
- 375g/13.2oz sheet butter puff pastry, thawed
- 260g/9.2oz caramelised onion relish
- 1 egg, beaten (optional)
- Thyme sprigs (optional)
Step-By-Step Instructions
Step 1 SLICE- Place goat's cheese in its packaging in the freezer for 15 minutes. Take a 30cm/12inch length of dental floss and hook it around the log. Bring ends together and "cut" goat's cheese log into 0.5cm/0.2inch slices - you want 15 slices of goat's cheese but you may have extra. Keep in the fridge until needed.
Step 2 PASTRY-Gently roll out puff pastry onto a sheet of parchment. Trim any edges to get a neat rectangle. Trace a border around 1cm/0.4inch around the edge of the puff pastry with a butter knife so that you don't cut all the way through.
Step 3 SPREAD-Spread out caramelised onion relish up to the edge. Place goat's cheese discs on top, 3 to a row making 5 rows. Place a tiny sprig of thyme on each goat's cheese slice. Brush the edges with beaten egg. Place in the fridge for 10 minutes while the oven is preheating.
Step 4 BAKE-Preheat oven to 200C/392F fan forced or 220C/428F conventional. Bake for 18 minutes or until the edges are puffed up and golden.
Personal Note
The two biggest fans of this tart are Teddy and Milo because of all those delicious buttery crumbs that come raining down upon them as they loiter around the kitchen island waiting for their "payment" for guarding the house.
Milo hasn't had a good time lately and the worst thing is that it is through no fault of his own. The first thing that happened was that there was a shortage in Sydney of his dog food. He has allergies to a lot of proteins like beef, turkey and chicken and the only food he could eat was wild boar. But his dog food brand had run out at all stores.
Sometimes allergies go away as the dog gets older so we thought that we'd try some of Teddy's salmon on Milo. He was fine for a few days but then he started having issues with his bottom and Mr NQN had to take him to the vet. It turned out that he is also allergic to salmon. Thankfully we managed to buy some of his food as it came back in stock but he still had to wear the cone of shame which he hates. It's a soft cone but he really loathes it.
Once he got his cone off, he went to the groomers. And for the second time, the groomer clipped another dew claw off so he was bleeding! That meant another trip to the vet and another few days with the cone of shame. If it was Teddy I think we would never get him to go back to the groomers but happy go lucky Milo has taken it in his stride. He doesn't love the cone but he works around it. I'm just hoping that nothing else happens to him!
So tell me Dear Reader, are you a fan of goat's cheese? Would you buy or make the caramelised onions?