a very delicious cheese and apple tart

another Belinda Jeffrey recipe adaptation...and yes that is the actual name of the recipe. My pastry shrunk a little so there wasn't quite enough filling to pastry for my liking, and a deeper tin is needed for the amount of liquid in the filling. I had no cheddar in the fridge so used cumin seed gouda instead which was a little mild, this tart needs a salty strong cheese to balance out the sweetness from the apples. We ate it with a salad of baby spinach, crisp gala apple and toasted pumpkin seeds.

a very delicious cheese and apple tart

pastry

1 1/2 c flour

125g butter

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 c iced water

Combine flour, salt and butter in the food processor and combine until fine crumbs form. Add the water and pulse until a rough dough forms. Gently bring dough together with your hands, wrap in plastic wrap, flatten into disk and chill for half an hour. Roll out to fit a deep sided flan tin. Bake blind.

filling

20g butter

4 apples, peeled and diced

4 spring onions, pale ends only, sliced

350g strong flavoured cheese, grated

1/2 tsp curry powder

1/2 tsp nutmeg, ground

4 eggs

250ml cream

S&P to taste

Melt butter in a frying pan, add onions and apples and cook until soft. Add curry powder and nutmeg. Cool. Beat eggs with cream. Place apple and onion mix and cheese into the cooked pastry case. Pour over eggs and cream and bake for 30 minutes or so at 170c.