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in Sides· Vegetables

Roasted Tomato Cheese Tart

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As soon as summer tomatoes grace nearby farmer markets or our own backyard, we serve them at every meal.  This scrumptious Tomato Cheese Tart recipe, and the mouth watering pictures, are from my dear friend Lizzy at That Skinny Chick Can Bake Blog.

Lizzy and I are both ‘from scratch’ bakers.  But if time is short, using refrigerated pie crusts (from the diary section of your supermarket), will still produce a gorgeous and delicious tomato tart!

Roasted Tomato Tart with Gruyère…adapted from Once Upon a Tart

Crust:

  • 1 1/4 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons semolina flour (1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon plus 1/2 teaspoon)
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 6 tablespoons cold butter, cut into small cubes
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons cold shortening (1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon plus 1/2 teaspoon)
  • 2+ tablespoons ice cold water

Filling:

  • 12 plum tomatoes, cut into 1/4 inch slices, and allowed to drain in colander
  • 1 cup grated Gruyère
  • 1 teaspoon herbes de Provence
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/4 cup half and half
  • 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper to taste
  1. To prepare crust, put flours and salt in food processor and pulse to combine.  Add butter and shortening and pulse till mixture looks like cornmeal.  Remove to bowl and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons ice water.  Mix to combine, and gather together to form ball. If not holding together, slowly add more ice water…avoiding adding too much and forming a sticky dough.  Flatten dough ball into a disk, wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate at least 30 minutes.
  2. Roll out dough to 1/4 inch thickness and fit into a 9 inch square tart pan (or another tart pan of comparable size), then trimming excess dough.  Chill another 30 minutes.
  3. Preheat oven to 400º.  Prick bottom of tart with fork, then line with parchment and cover parchment with  pie weights or dried beans.  Bake for 10 minutes.  Remove from oven, remove paper and weights,  and allow to cool as filling is prepared.
  4. Decrease oven temperature to 375º.  Sprinkle bottom of tart shell with Gruyère, then herbs de Provence.  Top with tomato slices arranged artfully.
  5. Whisk together eggs, half and half, mustard, salt and pepper.  Pour over tart, adding more cream if needed.
  6. Bake for 1 hour or longer, till custard is set.  Cool on wire rack slightly before serving.

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Filed Under: Sides, Vegetables Tagged With: heirloom tomatoes recipe, roasted tomato tart, tomato basil tart, tomato cheese tart, tomato tart, tomato tart recipe

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Comments

  1. Debra says

    August 19, 2012 at 7:34 am

    The tart pan had a removable bottom so you just push the tart up and out!

  2. Gail says

    August 18, 2012 at 5:21 pm

    Don’t you think the roasted tomato tart would go well with the cold avocado chicken soup? Your finished dish looks great, but when/how did you get it out of the tart pan & manage to make it look perfect?! Wow! =)) thanks.

  3. Liz says

    July 23, 2012 at 5:58 am

    Thanks for sharing, Deb!!! Have a lovely week~~~

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