Easy summer recipe with sweet cherry tomatoes
Delicious summer lunch ready in under 30min and with only 5 ingredients (+ oil salt and pepper). A buttery tart shell, is topped with a thin layer of salty olive tapenade and sweet cherry tomatoes that burst in the mouth as bite into the warm tart.
Recipe
Serves: 2 (4 with sides) | Filling for a 22cm ø tart | Time: 30 min
Ingredients
- Shortcrust pastry (uses 1/2 a pastry)
- 600g cherry tomatoes (1.3lb)
- 1/4 cup black olive tapenade or vegetarian olive spread
- 1/2 tsp powdered sugar
- Olive oil
- Salt
- Pepper
- Basil (optional)
Method
Blind bake the dough
- Pre-heat oven to 180°C (350°F) – convection oven.
- Roll out the dough on a floured work surface. Place the dough in pie mould. Tuck it in with your fingers, making sure it is completely smooth.
- Line the pie crust with baking paper. Fill with pie weights or dried beans. You can also “dock” the crust by making dents across the base with a fork.
- Bake until golden and fully cooked (about 20 to 25min).
Cook the tomatoes (whilst the dough is baking)
- Rinse tomatoes.
- Heat 1 tbsp of olive oil in a pan over medium heat.
- Add tomatoes and season with a pinch of salt and pepper.
- Slowly cook tomatoes for 15min, stirring them gently to avoid smashing them. It is ok if the skins tears a little bit but it should not brown.
Assemble and finish cooking
- Once the dough is ready, take it out of the oven and layer tapenade evenly across the bottom.
- Top with tightly packed cooked tomatoes (picture 1 below). The tomatoes will have rendered juices during their cooking, do not add those juices to the tart it will dilute the tapenade and make for a sloppy tart.
- Sprinkle the tart with powdered sugar (picture 2 below).
- Cook 4 to 5 min under the broiler/ grill.
- Top with a few basil leaves and enjoy the tart! – Caution if you serve immediately the tomatoes may be quite hot, it is worth letting the tart cool a few minutes.
Substitutions
I highlight here the core of the dish and suggest possible substitutions to adapt the tart to your preferences, diet and ingredients available to you.
Core: Pastry, a salty spread, cherry tomatoes.
Substitutions: You can opt out of the sugar and basil and substitute other ingredients to taste:
| Recipe components | Possible substitutions* |
| Shortcrust pastry | • Puff pastry • Pizza dough |
| Black olive tapenade | • Green olive tapenade • Sundried tomato spread / tomato tapenade • Whole grain mustard |
| Basil | • Thyme |
Country
France
France
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