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Merrilees Parker

Open Pine Nut Tart with Buffalo Mozzarella, Tomato and Pesto


These gorgeos puff-pastry tarts and filled with Mediterranean flavours such as pesto, basil and mozzarella. They're like posh pizzas.

Serves 4

Ingredients

  • 1 sheet of ready rolled puff pastry
  • 50g / 1 ¾ oz pine-nuts
  • Maldon sea salt
  • 2 tbsp pesto
  • 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 beef tomato, top and tailed and cut into 4 rounds
  • 1 ball of buffalo mozzarella, cut into 4 rounds
  • A few basil leaves
  • Freshly ground black pepper

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 180°C/ 350°F/ Gas 4.
  2. Cut four circles from the pastry, the rim needs to be about a centre-metre bigger than the beef tomatoes.
  3. Take half the pine-nuts and push then gently into the puff pastry. Sprinkle with sea salt and then place on a baking tray. Put in the oven and cook for 8- 10 minutes until golden.
  4. After 5 minutes of cooking time put the remaining pine nuts onto the tray to toast.
  5. Mix some olive oil with the pesto to make it runny.
  6. To serve, place a circle of the cooked pastry onto the centre of each serving plate, top with a slice of beef tomato, follow with a little drizzle of pesto. Next top with a piece of mozzarella and a few of the toasted pine-nuts. Finish with a drizzle of pesto, a few basil leaves, a sprinkling of sea-salt and some cracked black pepper.
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