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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Wednesday, 26 August '09: Easy Tomato Tart for Leona

Leona, my South African friend of over 30 years, now resident in Linz, Austria has asked me for the recipe for my quick and easy tomato tart which I baked for my birthday in July. Here it is:

Mom Hammond's shortcrust pastry
1 cup flour
1 egg yolk
100g margerine or unsalted butter
One Tablespoon lemon juice

Rub margerine into flour until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add egg yolk and lemon juice and a little cold water if necessary to make a pliable dough.

Filling
50 ml olive oil
20ml crushed garlic
4 baby leeks finely chopped
800g Rosa tomatoes halved
50 ml fresh basil torn
30 ml white balsamic vinegar
salt and freshly ground pepper
50 ml grated mozzarella cheese

1 Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Roll out the dough and line loose-bottomed tart pan. Prick the bottom with a fork.
2 Spread the bottom of the unbaked pastry case with the basil leaves, leeks and mozarella in that order. Cover as evenly as possible with tomato halves.
3 Season and drizzle with olive oil and balsamic.
4 Bake for about 30 minutes.

There you go, Leona. Hope Franz enjoys! (You can also mix in a can of tuna for a more substantial tart. Or add olives and/or anchovies to the tomato filling. Black olives look lovely among the red tomatoes.)

9 comments:

Raph G. Neckmann said...

Ooh Eleanor, this looks very yummy! I shall tell Girth about it, he's in our kitchen now, so he'll probably bake one straight away, with the olives in too!

Kat Mortensen said...

OMG! This looks scrumptious, Eleanor! I love those flavours and I am a fiend for tomatoes. I will have to try this definitely.

Kat

Gaelyn said...

This sounds scrumptious Eleanor. I'll give it a try and add olives and artichokes. Thanks.

Vicki Lane said...

Gotta try this one for sure! Many thanks!

SAPhotographs (Joan) said...

Thanks Eleanor!! Looks great. I can almost smell it. :)

Janet said...

Oh Yum! That looks really good! I'm going to give it a try! Thank you for sharing! :)

Carol Murdock said...

Eleanor, it sounds so good! Thanks for sharing!
xoxo....Carol

Tracy said...

Sooo delicious...thank you, Eleanor! :o)

Avril said...

Ooh yumm!! Hubby would like this too!