Fresh Tomato Tart

Name: Fresh Tomato Tart
Ingredients: pepper; salt; 750 g (1¼ lbs) firm, ripe tomatoes, sliced; 750 g (1¼ lbs) firm, ripe tomatoes, sliced; 6 cloves garlic, peeled and thinly sliced – optional; 75 mls (3 oz) extra-virgin olive oil; 2 tablespoons olive oil – optional; about 150 mls (¼ pint) hand-hot water; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon fast-action easy-blend yeast; 300 g (10 oz) strong plain flour

Preparation info

Serves
4 to 6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Modern Classics

By Frances Bissell

Published 2000

About

This tart gives off one of the most appetizing smells imaginable. A more elaborate tart can be made with courgettes and aubergines, as in the subsequent recipe. Because both tarts are made with bread dough, they have little, if any, fat in them, unlike pastry dough, at least a third of which will be fat.

Ingredients

Dough

300 g (10 oz) strong plain flour
1 teaspoon fast-action easy-ble

Starter
Vegan

Method

Sift the dry ingredients together, and then stir in the water. You may not require it all, or you may need a little more, to produce a soft, but not sticky, dough.

Knead for 10 minutes on a floured worktop until you have a smooth, elastic dough.

Put the dough in an oiled bowl, cover with a damp cloth and put it somewhere to rise. When the dough has doubled in volume, knock it ba