Taleggio, bacon & spring onion tart

Name: Taleggio, bacon & spring onion tart
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 230 grams pack ready rolled all-butter shortcrust pastry (Sara Lee, from Sainsburys, is exceptionally good); 4 rashers unsmoked back bacon (total weight about 140g 5oz), cut into lardons (small cubes); 6 spring onions, chopped; 284 milliliters carton double cream; 150 milliliters milk; 2 larges eggs and 2 egg yolks; 140 grams taleggio cheese, cut into 1cm cubes

The recipe Taleggio, bacon & spring onion tart can be made in roughly 1 hour and 30 minutes. One serving contains 383 calories, 10g of protein, and 28g of fat. This recipe serves 6. This recipe covers 10% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe from BBC Good Food requires pack ready rolled all-butter shortcrust pastry, rashers unsmoked back bacon, taleggio cheese, and carton double cream. It works well as a hor d'oeuvre. It is perfect for Spring. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as A Spring Onion Tart, Pea & spring onion tart, and Asparagus and Spring Onion Tart.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to fan 180C/ conventional 200C/gas

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Line a 4cm deep, 22cm loose-bottomed tart tin with the pastry, letting the excess hang over the top edge. Prick the base, fill with crumpled foil and bake blind for 15 minutes.

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Base

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Aluminum Foil

Meanwhile, cook the bacon in a non-stick pan over a fairly high heat for 5 minutes until browned and quite crisp.

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Bacon

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Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen paper. Cook the spring onions in the fat over a moderate heat for 1 minute until softened.

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Spring Onions

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Remove with slotted spoon and tip over the bacon.

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Bacon

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Take the pastry case out of the oven and remove the foil. Reduce the heat to fan 160C/conventional 180C/gas

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Beat the cream, milk, eggs and egg yolks. Stir in the bacon, spring onions and a little salt, then pour into the case. Scatter with the cheese and black pepper, then bake for 30 minutes until pale golden and just firm to the touch.

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Spring Onions

Black Pepper

Egg Yolk

Cheese

Bacon

Cream

Egg

Milk

Salt

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Remove from the oven and trim excess pastry with a knife. Leave in the tin to cool a little, then slide on to a wire rack and leave until cold.

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For a picnic, make the tart up to 6 hours ahead and return it to the clean tin once its cold. Wrap the whole thing in cling film or foil and keep in a cool place (not the fridge or it will get soggy).

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Wrap

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Servings:

230grams

pack ready rolled all-butter shortcrust pastry (Sara Lee, from Sainsbury's, is exceptionally good)4

rashers unsmoked back bacon (total weight about 140g 5oz), cut into lardons (small cubes)6

spring onions, chopped 284milliliters

carton double cream 150milliliters

milk 2larges

eggs and 2 egg yolks 140grams

taleggio cheese, cut into 1cm cubes

Recommended wine: Sparkling Rose, Sparkling Wine

Sparkling rosé and Sparkling Wine are great choices for Onion Tart. If you're serving a selection of appetizers, you can't go wrong with these. Both are very food friendly and complement a variety of flavors. You could try LVE by John Legend Sparkling rosé. Reviewers quite like it with a 4.2 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 20 dollars per bottle.