Goat Cheese and Tomato Tart in a Cornmeal Crust
- 1 1/2 sticks (3/4 cup) cold unsalted butter
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup yellow cornmeal
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons ice water
- pie weights or raw rice for weighting crust
- 1/2 cup packed fresh basil leaves
- 7 ounces mild soft goat cheese, softened
- 3/4 stick (6 tablespoons) unsalted butter, well softened
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 2 large eggs
- 3/4 pound vine-ripened cherry tomatoes (preferably red)
- Cut butter into pieces.
- In a food processor pulse together flour, cornmeal, and salt.
- Add butter and pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal.
- Add ice water and pulse until incorporated and mixture just forms a dough.
- Press dough evenly into bottom and up sides of a 10 1/2- by 7- by 1-inch rectangular tart pan with a removable fluted rim (see note, above) and roll a rolling pin over rim of pan to trim dough flush with rim.
- Chill crust about 20 minutes, or until firm.
- While crust is chilling, preheat oven to 375F.
- Line crust with foil and fill with pie weights or raw rice.
- Bake crust in lower third of oven until edge is set, 10 minutes.
- Carefully remove foil and weights or rice and bake crust 5 minutes more, or until just dry.
- Leave oven on and cool crust in pan on a rack (crust may crack slightly).
- Crust may be made 1 day ahead and kept, loosely covered with plastic wrap, at room temperature.
- Chop basil.
- In a bowl whisk together basil and remaining custard ingredients and season with salt and pepper.
- Pour custard into crust, spreading evenly.
- Halve tomatoes and arrange, cut sides up, in one layer on custard, pressing lightly into custard.
- Season tomatoes with salt and pepper and bake tart in lower third of oven until custard is just set, about 25 minutes.
- Cool tart to warm in pan on rack.
- Tart may be made 1 day ahead and cooled completely before being chilled, covered, in pan.
- Reheat tart, uncovered, in a 350F.
- oven or bring to room temperature before serving.
- Carefully remove rim from pan.
- Cut tart into roughly 2-inch pieces and serve warm or at room temperature.
butter, flour, yellow cornmeal, salt, water, rice, basil, goat cheese, unsalted butter, sour cream, eggs, tomatoes
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/goat-cheese-and-tomato-tart-in-a-cornmeal-crust-15278 (may not work)