Easy Recipes – Blue Cheese and Pear Tart
Blue Cheese and Pear Tart
Serves 4
Prep time : 12 minutes
Cooking time : 20 minutes
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Ingredients
2 tablespoons butter.
3 pears, sliced thinly.
2 sheets frozen ready-rolled puff pastry, partially thawed.
1 egg, beaten lightly.
2/3 cup roasted hazelnuts.
80 grams blue cheese.
Method
Preheat oven to 200 C. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
Place a frying pan over medium heat and add butter.
Once butter has melted, cook pear slices in batches for 2 minutes each side, until golden.
Transfer to a plate.
Place one pastry sheet on a board and cut in half.
Place one piece of pastry on each prepared tray, and brush the edges with egg.
Cut 8 1cm wide strips from the piece of pastry that remains, and lay a strip on each edge to form a border.
Trim the ends to fit.
Chop the hazelnuts roughly and set 2 tablespoons aside.
Sprinkle 1/4 cup hazelnuts over each pastry centre and top with slices of pear.
Crumble cheese over pears.
Sprinkle with reserved hazelnuts and bake for 20 minutes, until golden.
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