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  • 375g pack ready-rolled shortcrust pastry
  • 500g onions
    finely sliced
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • few sprigs thyme
    leaves only
  • 3 eggs
  • 300ml milk
  • 100g ready grated emmental

Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal730
  • fat49g
  • saturates21g
  • carbs55g
  • sugars0g
  • fibre4g
  • protein21g
  • salt0.92g
    low
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Method

  • step 1

    Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Slide a baking sheet in to heat. Roll the pastry out enough to line a deep 20cm flan tin or a shallow 23cm one. Chill for 10 mins.

  • step 2

    Put a few balls of crumpled foil in the base of the pastry case and bake on the baking sheet for 10 mins. Remove the foil and bake for 5 mins more, until light golden.

  • step 3

    Meanwhile, cook the onions in the oil until starting to soften, then add thyme, pepper, and salt if you want to. Cook slowly for about 15 mins until the onions are soft and tinged brown.

  • step 4

    Beat the eggs, beat in the milk and half the cheese and some pepper. Spread the onions over the flan case and pour in the egg mix. Sprinkle the remaining cheese on top and bake the tart on the baking sheet for 30-40 mins until the filling is firm and golden, and the pastry crisp. Serve warm or cold.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2005

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A star rating of 4.2 out of 5.12 ratings

Brianmaxwell

A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Tasted fine but the amounts are wildly off. Used the exact amounts of every ingredient and the correct size tin suggested. The amount of egg/milk mixture is too much to fill the flan tin even if there was no pastry/onion in it. If you’re doing this I’d recommend using 2/3 or maybe even half the…

RumTruffles

Habdabs, the courgettes need to be salted as they are a water vegetable. I found this out the hard way when I couldn't get leeks for my usual leek tart recipe. The courgettes turned it to mush.

habdabs

A star rating of 3 out of 5.

It's certainly quick and easy but I found that the 300ml milk / 3 eggs combo gave far too much liquid and flooded the tart. I like to pack my tarts with veg so had added some courgettes with the onions and found 200/2 works better.

mariabryce

question

The recipe states that it is freezable. At what point can i freeze it and how long can it be frozen for? Do i need to cook from frozen or simply defrost and serve?

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Gluten Free Spirit

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

I made this for a buffet and it was lovely. A couple of alterations: used ready made gluten free pastry to make it suitable for coeliacs; changed the emmental to a strong cheddar for zing; added a dash of sherry vinegar and a sprinkle of sugar to the onions to really caramelize them. It was gorgeous…

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