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Serves: 4
Time to prepare: 20 mins
Time to cook: 35 mins
Dietary requirements: Halal, Kosher, Vegan (with substitutions)
Ingredients
For the walnut pastry:
200g flour
½ tsp salt
8 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tbsp water
50g walnuts, roughly chopped
For the filling:
2–3 tbsp olive oil
2 large onions, finely sliced
3 tbsp vegetarian or vegan* pesto
600g ripe tomatoes, thinly sliced
Salt and black pepper
A few basil leaves to garnish
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas mark 6.
Make the pastry: put the flour and salt into a bowl, pour in the oil and water, mix gently with a fork until it holds together, then stir in walnuts. Using your fingers press the mixture into a flan dish, covering the base as evenly as you can, and pushing up the sides a bit (high crust not needed). Put into the oven – no need to weigh down – and bake for 6–8 minutes. Remove from oven.
Meanwhile heat 1 tbsp of the olive oil in a pan, add the onions, cover and cook gently for 10–15 minutes until tender.
Drizzle the pesto over the pastry, then put the onions in an even layer. Arrange the sliced tomatoes on top, slightly overlapping, to cover the tart completely. Sprinkle with some salt, grind some black pepper over and drizzle with the remaining olive oil.
Put the tart back in the oven and bake for 8–10 minutes to cook the tomatoes a little. Scatter with torn basil leaves and serve.
This might be a silly question, but here goes. Any chance you have a photo of this recipe? When I try I new recipe it helps me to know what the finish product looks like. 😊
Tom
07 February, 2023
Many thanks for your feedback C.
We’ve now added a photo to the recipe, I hope this helps!
sherrill
14 July, 2016
I cannot find the vegetarian pesto ingredients mentioned in the above recipe.
I searched for it in the 30-minute book and was always referred to pg.8, but could not find it there or anywhere.
Please email it to me.
Thanks.
Amanda
18 July, 2016
Hi Sherrill
It’s not the pesto mentioned in the book, but a simple vegetarian/vegan pesto recipe can be found here: http://www.vegan.com/recipes/pesto/
And you can read more about ready-made pesto here: http://www.veganrecipeclub.org.uk/recipes/tony’s-sundried-tomato-and-asparagus-pasta-pesto
I hope that this helps.
C Mac
06 February, 2023
This might be a silly question, but here goes. Any chance you have a photo of this recipe? When I try I new recipe it helps me to know what the finish product looks like. 😊
Tom
07 February, 2023
Many thanks for your feedback C.
We’ve now added a photo to the recipe, I hope this helps!
Tom
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