Mediterranean cheesy tarts
These tarts are a combination of western short crust pasty tarts and the cheesy sauce with Mediterranean style vegetables. These tarts are served with variety Salads like Cheese shots in Sweet potato cylinder and Cucumber rolls.
The vegetables for filling mainly consists of Sun dried tomatoes, Spinach, peas, spring onions, garlic, onions and flavored with dash of Zatar. Zatar is a unique Mediterranean spice used for making breads, dressing etc.
For Short Crust Tart: 1/2 cup All purpose flour3 tbspn butter, 4 tbspn milk
For presentation : one half boiled Sweet potatoeone thin sliced cucumber sheet
For Cheese Sauce : 1/2 cup milk2 tbspn all purpose flour, 1/2 cup goat cheese, 1 tspn butter
Instructions
For Short crust tart
In a bowl add the flour, butter, milk and form a soft dough
Keep the dough in refrigerator for 30 minutes. Then make 2 equal portions of dough, roll that into circle and keep it in the tart mould. Bake them at 200C for 15 min
For Cheese sauce
In a pan , add butter and add the all purpose flour and stir well for about 2 minutes
Then add milk to it and add the grated goat cheese. Stir continuously for about 5 min. Till the sauce becomes dense
Now assemble the tarts by adding the filling in the tarts and bake them again fro about 10 min at 250C
In a plate arrange the tarts. Now make the salads and other dressings using cylinder cut sweet potato. Fill it with cheese sauce.
Apply sauce on the slice of cucumber and roll it up
Arrange the platter as per the image
This kind of platter is a real eye catcher for parties, kids fun etc.