Portobello Tart with Spring Greens and Lime Balsamic Vinaigrette

Name: Portobello Tart with Spring Greens and Lime Balsamic Vinaigrette
Prep time: 3 h
Cook time: 3 h
Total time: 3 h
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 454 grams mixed baby greens (such as watercress, baby Arugula, garden sorrel, lambs lettuce), soaked to remove sand, rinsed and dried with a salad spinner or paper towels; 2 Tbsps balsamic vinegar; 118 milliliters freshly chopped chives; 2 Tbsps clarified butter; 1 shallot clove, very finely minced; 2 Tbsps light corn syrup; 1 egg, beaten for egg wash; 177 milliliters grapeseed oil; 1 lime, microwaved to release essential oils (allow lime to cool); 177 milliliters freshly grated Parmesan; 59 milliliters freshly chopped parsley leaves; 2 portobello mushrooms, cleaned, gills removed, quartered, and cut into slices 1/8-inch to 1/4-inch thick; 2 sheets puff pastry dough (often sold in 17 or 18-ounce packages containing 2 (9 or 10-inch) square sheets puff pastry); 1 red onion, sliced; 1 teaspoon very finely minced fresh rosemary leaves; 4 servings Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 tomatoes, insides removed and finely diced; 237 milliliters cleaned and sliced white mushrooms

Portobello Tart with Spring Greens and Lime Balsamic Vinaigrette

Portobello Tart with Spring Greens and Lime Balsamic Vinaigrette requires around 3 hours from start to finish. This recipe serves 4. One portion of this dish contains around 21g of protein, 101g of fat, and a total of 1292 calories. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Spring. A mixture of shallot clove, onion, portobello mushrooms, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful.

Instructions

Squeeze the lime juice (from the now cooled lime) through the feed opening of a running blender. With the blender still running, add the vinegar, corn syrup, shallot and rosemary, 1 at a time, and pour the oil in a slow steady stream into the vinegar mixture very slowly to emulsify.

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Corn Syrup

Lime Juice

Rosemary

Shallot

Vinegar

Lime

Cooking Oil

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Blender

Remove to a container and season with salt and pepper, to taste.

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Salt And Pepper

Tear the greens into bite-sized pieces, and remove the stems if using arugula. (Make sure greens are no longer wet from being rinsed.) Toss greens with Parmesan, season with salt and pepper, to taste, and set aside.

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Salt And Pepper

Parmesan

Arugula

Greens

Heat the clarified butter over medium heat in a large saute pan.

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Clarified Butter

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Frying Pan

Add the onion and cook for about 15 minutes until translucent and beginning to caramelize, then add the portobellos and white mushrooms to the onions. Cook for another 10 minutes then reduce heat to low and add the tomatoes, chives, salt, and pepper, and allow flavors to integrate.

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White Button Mushrooms

Portobello Mushrooms

Tomato

Chives

Onion

Pepper

Salt

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

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Oven

Roll out puff pastry dough, and using a 4-inch circle cutter (aka biscuit cutter), cut out 8 dough rounds.

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Puff Pastry Dough

Biscuits

Dough

Roll

Place 4 of the dough rounds on a lightly greased baking sheet. Using a 3-inch circle or biscuit cutter, cut a concentric circle in the middle of the remaining 4-inch dough rounds to create a 1/2-inch wide circle of dough. These 1/2-inch wide circles of dough are to be used without the 3-inch pieces from the center.

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Biscuits

Dough

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Baking Sheet

Place 1 of these 1/2-inch wide circles of dough on top of each of the rounds already on the baking sheet, matching up the edges.

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Dough

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Baking Sheet

Brush egg wash over the surface of each of the paired dough circles and rounds. Then use a fork to prick through the dough around the perimeter (that is, through each dough circle and into the accompanying round beneath it).

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Dough

Egg

Place in the oven and bake until golden brown, about 6 to 8 minutes. The center of each will rise.

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Oven

Remove pastry shells from oven and allow to cool slightly.

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Pastry Shells

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Oven

Using the tip of a butter knife, break through the risen center part of each pastry shell to make a crater. Spoon some of the mushroom mixture into each of these craters.

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Pastry Shells

Mushrooms