William Lander, Daniel Morgenthau, Shaun Searley

Isle of Wight Tomato Tart, Ticklemore, Basil

Name: Isle of Wight Tomato Tart, Ticklemore, Basil
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 50 g Ticklemore cheese; salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste; 10 basil leaves; olive oil, for drizzling; handful of salad leaves; 200 g mixed tomatoes, thinly sliced; 20 g Lyonnaise onions; 2 x 12 cm puff pastry discs; 1 free-range organic egg yolk, lightly beaten

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Quality Chop House

By William Lander , Shaun Searley and Daniel Morgenthau

Published 2019

About

This is almost effortless to prepare and makes for great summer lunch. Buy perfectly ripe tomatoes for their natural sweetness and flavour. We particularly like colourful, flavoursome Isle of Wight tomatoes. Good-quality puff pastry is easy to come by in shops; look for ‘all butter’ pastry.

Ingredients

2 x 12 cm puff pastry discs
1 free-range organic egg yolk, lightly beaten
20 g

Main course
Summer
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 220°C and line a baking tray with baking parchment.

Put the pastry discs on the tray, brush with egg yolk and score a circle 2cm in from the edge with the back of a knife – don’t cut all the way through the pastry. Spread a thin layer of Lyonnaise onions ins