Saffron and Honey

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Roasted strawberry and goat cheese tart

An easily delicious summer dessert – or creative hors d’oeuvre – with strawberries gone savory (with a little help from goat cheese)!

(adapted from this recipe)

You’ll need:

  • 1 sheet puff pastry
  • 16 oz strawberries, washed and hulled
  • 1 T maple syrup
  • 1T balsamic vinegar
  • 1 T extra virgin olive oil
  • 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
  • pinch of  black pepper
  • 2 T chestnut honey (or buckwheat honey, for nuttiness)
  • 1 T balsamic glaze
  • 4 oz goat cheese, at room temp

1. Preheat oven to 350F. Halve the strawberries  and mix them with maple syrup, 1 T honey, vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper. Turn out onto a foil-lined baking sheet and roast until fragrant and syrupy, about half an hour. Remember that the sugars in the honey will brown quicker, so watch the berries and give them a little shake every now and again.

2. In the meantime, prep the pastry: cut it into squares of various sizes (no need to be precise here) and then score another smaller square on each piece – this is where you will put the filling.

3. Mix goat cheese with lemon zest, remaining honey, and balsamic glaze. Place a dollop of the goat cheese mixture in the middle of each scored square of pastry. Bake in same 350F oven for 20-25 minutes until pastry is golden. Keep the strawberries covered and slightly warm in the meantime.

4. Top baked goat cheese tart-lets with the strawberries and the strawberry syrup. Serve immediately.

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  5. Just A Smidgen says

    Wow, this is a really pretty one.. and I can imagine a lot of other modifications that could be made.. this is so versatile and very pretty.. I love strawberries!!! xoxo Smidge

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  7. Karen says

    I love the combination of the goat cheese with the strawberries. Sweet and savory with the little bit of black pepper and vinegar. Nice.

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