tomato-and-pesto-tarts-recipe

Tomato and Pesto Tarts

These Tomato and Pesto Tarts are the perfect nibbles, ideal for entertaining, or enjoying at home with the family.

Bon Appetit!

Recipe adapted from Fisher & Paykel. 

Ingredients

2 punnets Strawberry Tomatoes
1 tbsp Billingtons Demerara Sugar
1 tbsp Giocabazzi Balsamic Vinegar
1 tbsp olive oil
salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 sheets, Careme Butter Puff Pastry
Don Antonio Basil Pesto

Method

  • Preheat the oven to 160 degrees and line an oven tray with baking paper.
  • Cut the tomatoes in half and arrange on the oven tray, bake side down. Sprinkle with oil, vinegar and Demerara sugar and then season with salt and pepper.
  • Bake for 30 minutes then remove from the oven and set aside to cool.
  • Meanwhile, cut each piece of pastry into 9+ squares and then using a  sharp knife, score a border about 1cm from the edge of the pastry so it looks like a little frame. Cover the pastry with a tea towel to keep from drying out.
  • Spread about a teaspoon of pesto inside the border you have scored and then place 4 of the baked tomato halved on top of this.
  • Bake for 25 – 30 minutes, or until the pastry puffs up and turns golden brown.
  • Enjoy!