Roasted peppers goat cheese tart

Name: Roasted peppers goat cheese tart
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 3 h
Yield: 8 Servings
Ingredients: red bell pepper: 5 medium-big; Olive oil: 2 tbsp; : 150 grams of any aged goat cheese, i used Saint Maure; all purpose flour: 200g/ 1¾ cups; Butter: 100g/ ½Cup; Salt: 1 tsp; Egg: 1 medium; : 3 tbsp. water; : 250ml/ 1 cup heavy cream; Eggs: 2 medium; Salt: 1 tsp; Ground Nutmeg: 1tsp; Gouda cheese: ½ Cup

A savory Tarte to be remembered!

Features:

Cuisine:

International

3 hours
Serves 8
Medium

Ingredients

5 medium-big red bell pepper
2 tbsp Olive oil
for drizzling on the peppers
150 grams of any aged goat cheese, i used Saint Maure
Tart Dough
200g/ 1¾ cups all purpose flour
100g/ ½Cup Butter
almost frozen
1 tsp Salt
1 medium Egg
3 tbsp. water
Cream Royal
250ml/ 1 cup heavy cream
2 medium Eggs
1 tsp Salt
1tsp Ground Nutmeg
½ Cup Gouda cheese

Directions

The combination between roasted peppers with goat cheese is brilliant, the spicy deep flavors of the goat cheese along with the smoky Bell peppers creates an amazing combination, so this roasted peppers goat cheese tart is indeed a winner.

making the roasted pepper goat cheese tart takes some time and effort but the result will create a tart that with strong flavors that is definitely worth it.

Roasted peppers goat cheese tart – Starting with the dough

a good tart is first measured by the dough, it needs to be light and crispy, should support the tart filling but shouldn’t be thick and take the focus out of the filling.

There are a few tart doughs main key point that needs to be kept in order for the dough to succeed.

The butter should be extra cold, I usually put it in the freezer 10 minutes prior to the dough making
Sift the flour, it helps evenly distribution of all ingredients.
In summer time, all dough materials are kept in the fridge just until used; eggs, flour, water (we use ice water).
I found that dough is best made in a food processor in short pulses, do not overwork the dough, we are not looking to extract the gluten (elastic dough), just the opposite, we want the dough to be crispy.
Refrigerate the dough in a disk shape, it will be easier to open it later

Roasted peppers goat cheese tart

Making the Roasted peppers goat cheese tart filling

The method is simple, we layer the goat cheese on the bottom of the tart, spread over it the roasted peppers and add the “royal cream” which is a combination of eggs heavy cream, salt pepper and nutmeg.

Roasted peppers goat cheese tart

A not about the peppers

The flavor of the peppers is extremely important, in order to achieve maximum taste from them we need to roast them in the oven on highest temperature up until they are close to burnt (don’t worry about burnt skin, we will soon take it off).

Roasted peppers goat cheese tart

In order to get the skin off easily, place the peppers in a sealed bag or sealed container right after they are out of the oven, this will make them sweat up hence the skin will come off easily.

Roasted peppers goat cheese tart

When cleaning, the peppers do not use water under any circumstance, water will wash out flavor as well, clean it by hand, I’d rather have a seed or two in the tart and to keep all the flavors.

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Steps

1 Done 45 minutes	Roast the Bell peppers preheat the oven to 225°c/475°F. drizzle olive oil on the red peppers and place in the oven roast for about 45 minutes, flip the peppers on the other side in the middle so they will be grilled evenly. Don't discard the pepper fluids, we will add them later on for the Royal cream. immediately after out of the oven put in a sealed container (yes, whole hot) and let the sweat for 30 minutes. take out of the container, peel and clean the seeds and put back in the container.
2 Done 2 hours 30 minutes	making the dough In a bowl of a food processor, sift the flour, salt and the frozen butter. mix on pulses just until mixture is getting grainy. add the egg and mix for 10 more seconds, slow drizzle up to 3 spoons of water just until the dough is forming small bowls. Gather the dough on a work surface and flatten into a disk shape. Cover with a plastic wrap and cool for a minimum of 2 hours.
3 Done 1 hour 10 minutes	Shaping the dough Butter a 26cm round pie pan or spring (10 inch). Take the dough out of the freezer and flatten it with the rolling pin to cover the pan in size, use a bit of flour if necessary for it not to stick. Roll the dough on the rolling pin and place on the baking pan. Tighten the dough on the sides of the pan and remove excess dough. Place in the fridge for another hour (or 20 minutes in the freezer if in a hurry).
4 Done 5 minutes	Making the Cream Royal In a bowl, combine, heavy cream, eggs, nutmeg, salt, Pepper fluids and gouda cheese. Whisk for a minute until fully incorporated
5 Done 1 hour	Assembling the tart and baking Preheat the oven to 180°c/ 350°F. Distribute the goat cheese and the red bell peppers on the tart dough. Pour the royal cream on top and bake on 2nd from the bottom shelf for 45-50 minutes. Cool for 30 minutes and serve.