Apple Walnut Gorgonzola Rustic Tart

Name: Apple Walnut Gorgonzola Rustic Tart
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 Pâte Brisée (tart dough) for a 10-inch tart (see all butter crust recipe) or 1 packaged, flat pie crust; 118 milliliters walnuts, chopped; 59 milliliters crumbled gorgonzola cheese (or blue cheese); 1 Tbsp fresh thyme, chopped, or 1/2 teaspoon dried; 2 Tbsps maple syrup; 2 larges granny smith apples (or other good cooking apples such as jonagold or fuji), peeled, cored, chopped; 1 teaspoon lemon juice (optional)

Apple Walnut Gorgonzola Rustic Tart is a lacto ovo vegetarian dessert. This recipe makes 8 servings with 117 calories, 3g of protein, and 6g of fat each. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have maple syrup, lemon juice, gorgonzola cheese, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour. Rustic Plum-Walnut Tart, Rustic Apple Tart, and Rustic Apple Tart are very similar to this recipe.

Instructions

Toss the walnuts, gorgonzola, thyme, chopped apples, and maple syrup together in a medium size bowl. As you are working with the apples (chopping them, mixing them in with the other ingredients), if you want, you can squeeze a little lemon juice on them to help keep them from discoloring.

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Lemon Juice

Maple Syrup

Gorgonzola

Walnuts

Apple

Thyme

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Bowl

Cover the mixture with plastic wrap while you prepare the crust.

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Crust

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Roll out the dough: Preheat oven to 350°F.

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Dough

Roll

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Oven

Roll out pastry dough to 13-inches, at an 1/8 of an inch thickness.

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Pastry Dough

Roll

Place pastry dough on a rimmed baking sheet. (Rimmed because the pastry will leak butter during the cooking process.)

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Pastry Dough

Butter

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Add filling, pleat dough around edge: Mound the filling in the middle of the rolled out dough, and spread out evenly to 1 1/2 inches to 2 inches from the edge of the dough.

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Spread

Dough

Pleat the edges of the dough over the filling.

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Bake at 350°F for 45 minutes to an hour, until crust is nicely browned. If at any time it looks like the walnuts are getting a little burnt, you can lightly tent a piece of aluminum foil over the center.

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Walnuts

Crust

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Aluminum Foil

Oven

Remove from oven and let cool for 10 minutes before serving. A pizza wheel works great for slicing up the tart.

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Servings:

Pâte Brisée (tart dough) for a 10-inch tart (see all butter crust recipe) or 1 packaged, flat pie crust 118milliliters

walnuts, chopped 59milliliters

crumbled gorgonzola cheese (or blue cheese)1Tbsp

fresh thyme, chopped, or 1/2 teaspoon dried 2Tbsps

maple syrup 2larges

granny smith apples (or other good cooking apples such as jonagold or fuji), peeled, cored, chopped 1teaspoon

lemon juice (optional)

Recommended wine: Cream Sherry, Moscato Dasti, Port

Tart can be paired with Cream Sherry, Moscato d'Asti, and Port. A common wine pairing rule is to make sure your wine is sweeter than your food. Delicate desserts go well with Moscato d'Asti, nutty desserts with cream sherry, and caramel or chocolate desserts pair well with port. You could try NV Solera Cream Sherry. Reviewers quite like it with a 4.5 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 17 dollars per bottle.