Tiny Tomato and Goat's Cheese Tarts
PREP TIME: 20 minutes
COOK TIME: 10 minutes and 5 minutes
Ingredients
This is a Lauraine Jacobs recipe from Cuisine, 05/99) but
I love it... and they're great with bubbles..
- Submitted by Helen
2 sheets short savoury pastry
4 ripe red tomatoes
200g soft white goats' cheese
4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
salt and freshly ground pepper
8 fresh basil leaves
Directions
With a pastry cutter, cut out 24x6cm circles from the pastry
sheets. Turn 2 baby muffin tins, with 12 moulds each, upside down.
Place the circles over the outside of the cups, so they fall down
the edges, shaping the tarts as they cook. Bake in a 180deg C over
for about 10 minutes until the pastry is crisp and golden. Cool,
remove and place on a baking tray ready to fill.
Chop the tomatoes into fine dice, discarding most of the seeds.
Place a spoonful of the tomato dice in each tartlet shell. Chop the
goats' cheese into tiny cubes and place 3-4 cubes on top of the
tomato in each tartlet. Drizzle over a little olive oil on each and
sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake a further 5 minutes in the oven
at 180degC to warm the goats' cheese through. Finally, top with
shreds of fresh basil on each tartlet and serve immediately.
Makes 24.