Tomato Basil Tart


Photo: Kait Nolan
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Ingredients

2/3 rds of a sheet of puff pastry
handful of fresh basil
1 cup of fresh cherry tomatoes
4 ounces ⅓ less fat cream cheese, softened
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 egg white
fresh ground black pepper

Preparation

1
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2
On a floured surface, roll out your puff pastry until it makes a nice large square.
3
Transfer the flattened pastry to a pizza pan (you can use some other kind of pan but the pizza pan is so nice and uniformly round).
4
Take your cream cheese and if it’s already softened, add the garlic powder and mix well. If you’re like me and don’t have the patience to wait, put it in a bowl and microwave for 15 seconds, then add the garlic powder and mix well.
5
Spread the cream cheese mixture over the center of the puff pastry, leaving about a one inch edge uncovered.
6
Crank a bit of black pepper over the whole thing.
7
Slice the cherry tomatoes in half.
8
Layer the basil leaves (I like them whole, but you can certainly cut them) over the cream cheese mixture.
9
Layer the tomatoes between the basil.
10
Fold up the edges of your tart (we all know I always do rustic here).
11
Brush the top of the pastry with egg white.
12
Bake for 18 minutes.

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I put a savory twist on things using some fresh tomatoes and basil from my garden to make this fabulous appetizer. I really wanted to do this with goat cheese, but they were out when I went to the grocery (for shame!), so I used cream cheese instead. And the results were–OMG AWESOME! There was so much NOM NOM NOMING going on at the dinner I took these to that conversation simply stopped for the 3 minutes it took us to inhale it.

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4.0

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Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 5:30pm

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