Best Balsamic Onion Mushroom Blue Cheese Tarts Recipes

Blue Cheese Tart image

Provided by CindiJ

Categories Cheese

Time 1h7m

Yield 16 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 11

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cold land o lakes butter, cut into chunks
4 -5 tablespoons ice water
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup crumbled blue cheese
1/4 cup whipping cream
1 egg, slightly beaten
1/4 teaspoon fresh coarse ground black pepper
1/3 cup chopped roasted red pepper
3 tablespoons lightly toasted pine nuts or 3 tablespoons your favorite chopped nuts
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley

Steps:

Heat oven to 375°F Place flour in large bowl; cut in butter with pastry blender or fork until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Mix in water with fork until flour is just moistened. Shape into a ball. Roll out pastry on lightly floured surface into 12-inch circle.
Place into 9 or 10-inch tart pan with removable bottom or pie pan; press firmly on bottom and up sides of pan. Cut away excess pastry; prick all over with fork. Bake for 17 to 22 minutes or until very lightly browned.
Meanwhile, combine cream cheese and blue cheese in large bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy. Continue beating, gradually adding whipping cream, egg and ground pepper until blended. Spread into baked pastry. Sprinkle with roasted red pepper, pine nuts and parsley.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until filling is set. Let stand 20 minutes before serving. Cut into wedges. Cover; store refrigerated.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 181.8, Fat 14.4, SaturatedFat 8.3, Cholesterol 51.3, Sodium 168.3, Carbohydrate 9.9, Fiber 0.4, Sugar 0.2, Protein 3.7

French Onion and Blue Cheese Tart image

Provided by Nadiya Hussain

Time 45m

Number Of Ingredients 11

2 tablespoons butter
2 large sprigs of lemon thyme
1 clove of garlic, grated
5 onions, thinly sliced (you will need about 2 pounds 2 oz/1kg)
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons granulated sugar
1 sheet of pre-rolled puff pastry
1 egg, lightly beaten
5¼ oz/150g blue cheese
A small handful of chopped fresh chives, to serve

Steps:

Start by cooking the onions. They need to be cooked slowly on low heat, so it's best to begin with those.
Melt the butter in a large nonstick frying pan-we have a load of onions to cook. When the butter has melted, pick off the thyme leaves and add, then add the garlic and onions. Mix everything together.
Now add the pepper, salt, and sugar and mix. Cook on medium heat for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally, until you have onions that look like the kind you would only eat with a burger in a Sunday market at 6 a.m.!
While that cooks, start on the pastry. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Line a baking sheet with some parchment paper or use the paper the pastry comes in and roll out the pastry onto the sheet.
Using a knife, score a smaller rectangle ½ inch/1cm inside the pastry rectangle, making sure not to cut all the way through. Pierce the inner rectangle with a fork all over to allow the steam to escape when it bakes.
Brush the edges with the egg and bake for 20 minutes, until golden all over.
Take out and, using the back of a spoon, push down all the puffed-up pastry of the inner rectangle, creating a nice neat border.
Take the blue cheese and crumble all over the inner rectangle of the pastry. Add the onions and scatter them all over till you have an even layer. Now bake for 15 minutes.
Take out and let cool for 10 minutes before eating, sprinkled with the chives.