Saturday evening and my wife is out on a hen do...that is not the reason it has been a fabulous Saturday night! Tonight I was spending the evening with my brother-in-law and we decided to cook up something special.
So to start with we cooked up a blue cheese and caramelised onion tart with a few salad leaves and for main tonight we tackled a Rick Stein recipe of Moroccan Tagine with cous-cous.
A really straight forward meal even though it sounds complicated. For now I am going to focus on the starter and tomorrow I will add the pics and recipe for the Moroccan Tagine...
Starter:
1 x pack of ready made puff pastry
250 grams blue cheese cut into chunks (you will not need all of it)
1 x jar of caramalised onion chutney
half a teaspoon of dried thyme
Method:
1) Preheat oven to 200 dgrees (180 if fan oven)
2) Using a cookie cutter cut the pastry into circles (about 10cm) 1 per personn will be enough
3) Score around the edge of the pastry (about 2cm inside the edge)
4) Place on a lightly oiled baking tray
5) Put 1 x teaspoon of the chutney in the middle of the tart base and spread it around
6) Put some of the blue cheese chunks over the chutney and sprinkle over the thyme
7) Pop in the oven for about 15mins
8) Take out the tarts and add a few chopped sqaures of the blue cheese on the top
9) Put back in the oven for one minute
10) Serve with a light salad
Pleae don't take my words for how great this starter is...In the words of Andy, my brother-in-law, "now that's bloody lovely" need i say any more?
This is such an easy starter but it's very tasty and looks great, so is bound to impress your dinner guests next time round! Would love to know how you get on if you decide to try it!
See you soon
Dave
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