I have been thinking about making a vegetable tart, similar to one I had made about 25 years ago for my parents. I don't know why I had been thinking about it but I suppose it is like going through old cookery magazines of the mind. I thought that I would make the paté brisé a bit different and I remembered that a couple of months previous I had come across a packet of gofio on a supermarket shelf and bought it because I was curious to know what it was. Well, it is a toasted wheatgerm that comes from the Canary Islands. In appearance it looks like light brown cornflour but its smell resembles wheatgerm. Another thing that I use to eat in my 20's when I was a cycling fanatic, it was an ingredient in my power breakfast drink, which now I suppose would be called a smoothie. So in a way this pie is a bit of a trip down memory taste lane.
Rate this recipe:- 40 minutes
- 40 - 45 minutes
- 6
- for the pastry
- 150g plain flour
- 50g gofio
- 100g butter
- pinch of salt
- 1 egg yolk
- filling
- 250g butter beans, soaked overnight
- small bunch of swiss chard or spinach
- 1 onion
- 1 clove of garlic
- grated nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon of ground cumin
- small bunch of fresh coriander
- 2 tablespoons of cream
- 1 egg
- tomato frito
- salt and pepper
- 25g roasted hazelnuts, chopped
- 2 carrots
- 2 courgettes
Firstly, make the pastry by rubbing the butter into the two flours, add salt and yolk and bind with a little cool water.� Knead for a few seconds and wrap in cling film and let it rest in the fridge.�
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Drain butter beans and put in pressure cooker and cover with water and cook for 15 minutes under pressure, drain but reserve the cooking liquid.
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Wash all the vegetables and separate the swiss chard stalks and chop stalks along with the onion, garlic and carrots.� Gentle fry this in olive oil for a few minutes, add cumin and fry for a couple of minutes longer.� Add the beans and about a cup of tomato frito and a little of the cooking liquid.� Let cook gentle for five minutes adding more liquid if needed.� Add chopped coriander and turn off heat.
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Cook green part of swiss chard in a little water for five minutes, cool and drain, making sure you squeeze out excess moisture.� Liquidize with cream and a little nutmeg, let cool.
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Slice courgettes thinly and parboil for two minutes, refresh in cold water, drain�and pat dry.
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Grease a 23cm flan dish, roll out pastry and line flan dish.� Prick base with a fork and line with foil, put in baking beans and cook for 10 minutes in a� preheated oven of 180�c, remove foil and baking beans and cook for a further�5 minutes.� Remove from oven.
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Fill pastry lined dish with butter bean mixture, then mix in beaten egg to chard pur�e add hazelnuts then spread out on top of beans.� Top with courgettes overlapping in an ever decreasing circle,�brush with olive oil and cook for 35 minutes� or until golden on top.
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