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Tomato tart

Tomato tart

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It's amazing what you can turn ready-rolled pastry and sweet tomatoes into. We've also added a touch of homemade pesto to our tart for extra flavour!

Serves: 6
Skill level: Easy peasy
Costs: Cheap as chips

Ingredients

Woman's Weekly cookery editor Sue McMahon says: If you’re unable to get ready-rolled puff pastry, use a 375g packet of all-butter puff pastry and roll it out to a large rectangle to fit your baking sheet.

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375gpacket ready-rolled puff pastry
Beaten egg, for glazing
2-3tbsp green pesto (we used our home-made rocket pesto)
500g (1lb) cherry tomatoes, red and yellow, halved
1-2 tablespoons olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Salad, to serve

Method

Set the oven to 220°C or gas mark 7.
Unroll the pastry and trim around the edges, discarding the trimmings. With a knife, score a line through the pastry, but not cutting all the way through, about 1-2cm (½-¾in) inside the edge of the rectangle. Score the rim around the pastry edge in a criss-cross pattern, again, taking care not to cut all the way through. Slide the pastry on to a baking sheet.
Brush egg glaze around the edge of the pastry, taking care that the glaze doesn't run down over the sides, otherwise the pastry won't rise properly.
Spread the pesto over the pastry, inside the scored line. Arrange the tomatoes on top, cut-side up. Drizzle olive oil over and season with salt and pepper.
Bake the tart, at the top of the oven, for 20-30 mins, until the pastry is a golden colour and crisp at the edges, and the tomatoes have started to soften.
Remove tart from the oven and serve hot or warm with a green salad. (Not suitable for freezing).

Nutritional information is for the maximum number of servings

By Sue McMahon. Photos: Simon Pask. Props stylist: Sue Radcliffe

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Nutritional information per portion

Calories 300(kcal)
Fat 20.0g
Saturates 8.0g

This nutritional information is only a guide and is based on 2,000 calories per day. For more information on eating a healthy diet, please visit the Food Standards Agency website.

Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.