How to Bake Roasted Veggie-Cheese Tart

Serves: 3

Preparation time: 20 mins

Cooking time: 1 hour 40 mins

Ingredients needed to make Roasted Veggie-Cheese Tart:

For the beetroot:

• 4 small fresh beetroot, trimmed
• 2 egg whites
• 1 lb table salt

For the tart:

• 12 oz ready-made puff pastry sheet
• 5 oz soft goat cheese
• 10 cherry tomatoes
• 1 courgette, trimmed and cut into bite-sized chunks
• 2 garlic cloves, peeled
• 3-4 fresh thyme sprigs
• 1 head fennel, fronds chopped of and sliced into bite-sized chunks
• 1 egg yolk, beaten
• 2 tbsp olive oil, plus more for drizzling
• Plain flour, for dusting
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Cooking instructions for Roasted Veggie-Cheese Tart:

• To roast the beetroot, warm up your oven to 350 degrees f.
• Place the salt in a large mixing bowl and whisk in the egg white gradually, until it becomes thick enough to resemble a cement mixture.
• Spread it all over the beetroot until well coated and place them on a baking dish.
• Bake the veggie for an hour or until the salt-egg white mixture makes a hard crust around it and the beet is cooked through.
• Break the crust open using the edge of a spoon; peel the beetroot and cut it into thin slices; keep them aside.
• Arrange the courgette and fennel across a roasting pan and drop in the garlic cloves.
• Add a lashing of olive oil over them and toss them together to coat well.
• Throw in the thyme sprigs and roast the veggies in the hot oven for about 20 minutes or until they are just cooked.
• Remove from oven and get rid of the garlic cloves plus thyme sprigs; allow the mixture to cool to some extent.
• Reset the temperature setting of oven to 400 degrees F and preheat it further.
• Whisk the egg yolk until it breaks down completely and set aside.
• Spread the sheet of puff pastry across a baking tray, dusted earlier with small amount of flour and paint its edges with the beaten egg yolk.
• Spread the roasted veggies across the sheet, followed by slices of salt-roasted beetroot and top it up with cherry tomatoes.
• Finish it off with crumbled goat cheese and drizzle olive oil all over them, followed by a dash of seasonings to taste.
• Bake it for about 20 minutes or until the pastry puffs up to become crispy golden.
• Serve right away.

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Last Updated on March 1, 2013 by