Chicken, goats’ cheese & red onion tarte tatin

Name: Chicken, goats’ cheese & red onion tarte tatin
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 50 min
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 220 g/7¾ oz Rough Puff Pastry or puff pastry, thawed if frozen; 40 g/1½ oz/2½ tbsp unsalted butter; 1 tbsp thyme leaves; 220 g/7¾ oz Rough Puff Pastry or puff pastry, thawed if frozen; a little flour, for dusting; 1 egg; 100 g/3½ oz goats’ cheese; boiled and buttered new potatoes and steamed green vegetables, to serve; 1 tbsp milk; 125 g/4½ oz/heaped ½ cup caster (granulated) sugar; 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar; 2 skinless chicken breasts, finely sliced; 8 small red onions, halved; boiled and buttered new potatoes and steamed green vegetables, to serve; boiled and buttered new potatoes and steamed green vegetables, to serve

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
50 min

Appears in

The Good Chicken Cookbook

By Marcus Bean

Published 2024

About

Tarte tatin is a classic French recipe for an apple tart cooked upside-down, supposedly invented when a pie was dropped on the floor. This is my modern twist as it is a savoury version that combines mellow goats’ cheese and sweet red onions.

Ingredients

220 g/7¾ oz Rough Puff Pastry or puff pastry, thawed if frozen
a li

Europe
France
Pie
Mediterranean

Method

Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured work surface until it is about 5cm/2in larger than a 23cm/9in ovenproof frying pan. Cover with a clean, damp tea towel and leave to one side.

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Melt the butter in the frying pan over a low heat, add t