Tomato Tatin

Name: Tomato Tatin
Yield: For 6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 packet good ready-rolled puff pastry; 25 g semolina flour; a pinch of salt; 50 g butter; 8 nice medium tomatoes, halved and seeds removed; 1 tablespoon olive oil; 80 g caster sugar

Preparation info

For
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Trish's French Kitchen

By Trish Deseine

Published 2008

About

There are so many versions of the tarte Tatin, and with this one I am challenging you to see tomatoes not as a vegetable, but as a fruit. Ever since master pâtissier Pierre Hermé introduced his celebrated tomato and strawberry salad, the French have taken to doing just that.

Ingredients

80 g caster sugar
50 g butter
a pinch

Europe
France
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas mark 6. Place the sugar in a baking dish or a heavy-based ovenproof pan with 2 tablespoons of water and heat slowly. Once the sugar has dissolved, bring it to a lively bubble and leave it for about 5 minutes, without stirring, until it caramelises. I