Leek, cheese & bacon tart
Cooking time
Prep: 15 mins Cook: 20 minsSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 4This tart looks as impressive as it tastes. Leftovers are great for lunchboxes too
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition
- kcalories
- 637
- protein
- 19g
- carbs
- 31g
- fat
- 49g
- saturates
- 22g
- fibre
- 3g
- sugar
- 5g
- salt
- 2.2g
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 3 leeks, thinly sliced
- 375g pack ready-rolled puff pastry
- 150g pack soft cheese with garlic and herbs
- 4 rashers streaky bacon, snipped
- 100g grated emmental
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Method
- Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Heat the oil in a frying pan, then gently fry the leeks until soft, about 5 mins. Cool. Unroll the pastry onto a baking sheet. Spread the soft cheese over the pastry to within 3cm of the edges. Scatter over the leeks, bacon and grated Emmental.
- Flip the edges of the pastry over the filling. Bake for 20 mins until golden.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2009
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
A big success! I used boursin having read the other comments, but it was very difficult to spread on the pastry, so would use cream cheese next time. I also rather foolishly put all the leeks on, followed by the bacon and topped with all the emmenthal and would mix half the cheese in with the leeks next time, because it formed a bit of a crust and the cheese with the leeks would make it a bit more unctious. A definite keeper.
This was a hit with my husband & son. My daughter carefully separated the bacon and pastry and ate that before discarding the rest of the filling but for her, that's pretty good. I used half the quantity of supermarket brand low-fat cream cheese with garlic & herbs, and added a dash of cayenne into the leeks to give it a bit of a kick. It cut into 6 generous portions, so I am looking forward to having a slice cold for lunch today.
This was great - easy to do, pretty quick for a mid-week supper and looked fab, even managed to save some for packed lunches today (although it was hard not to eat it all last night) we both went back for seconds! Will definately make this again. I made just a couple of changes - used Boursin cheese (was on offer at Sainsburys) and used more like 100g of it. Also topped with cheddar as that is what I had in the fridge. Well done Good food - you have done it again - excellent!
