Blue Mosque Goat’s Cheese Tart

Name: Blue Mosque Goat’s Cheese Tart
Prep time: 25 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 100 g/3½ oz/heaped ⅓ cup yogurt; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 lemon; ¼ tsp paprika; 3 sheets of filo pastry, defrosted if frozen; 2 tbsp olive oil; 55 g/2 oz/scant ⅓ cup pitted green olives; 55 g/2 oz/scant ½ cup walnuts; 1 large handful of tarragon leaves; 125 g/4½ oz soft goat’s cheese; 1 green chilli; 3 spring onions

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
25 min

Appears in

Mighty Spice Express Cookbook

By John Gregory-Smith

Published 2013

About

My goat’s cheese tart is a twist on the classic Turkish snack borek. I have made one large tart instead of fiddly individual portions, and stuffed it with chilli, spring onions, olives, walnuts, tarragon, goat’s cheese and paprika.

Ingredients

1 green chilli
3 spring onions
55 g/2 oz<

Asia
Turkey
Pastry
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
Snacks
Street Food
Spring
Spicy
Mediterranean

Method

PREHEAT THE OVEN to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Cut the top off the chilli and roll the chilli between your hands to deseed it. Trim the spring onions. Put the chilli and spring onions into a food processor, and add the olives, walnuts and tarragon. Blend until coarsely chopped, then add the go