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Sage and Wild Mushroom Tart

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Sage and Wild Mushroom Tart

Crisp filo pastry is topped with wild mushrooms, plenty of fresh rosemary and sage, and a vibrant parsley pesto in this easy vegan tart.
Serves 2 generously
Total 35 min
Prep 10 min
Cook 25 min
Easy

Introduction from Rukmini Iyer

This is a wonderfully rich, filling dish. It certainly makes more than enough for two, but looks like such an impressive centrepiece and tastes so lovely that it would be perfect for a date night. There is a little bit of work blitzing the nuts and herbs for the vegan base, but it is otherwise an easy dish to accomplish.

Ingredients

200g pine nuts
20g flat-leaf parsley
175ml water
15ml lemon juice
2 tsp sea salt flakes
1 tbsp olive oil, plus more for the tin and the filo
4 sheets of filo pastry (check the packet to ensure it is vegan)
200g chestnut mushrooms, halved
100g wild mushrooms, halved if large
10 sage leaves, finely chopped
2 sprigs of rosemary, leaves finely chopped
To serve:
1 lemon, juice only
sea salt flakes
A little finely chopped flat-leaf parsley leaves
freshly ground black pepper

Essential kit

You will need: a high-speed blender and a 24–25cm pie dish.

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C fan/200°C/gas 6. Blitz the pine nuts, parsley, water, lemon juice and 1 teaspoon of sea salt flakes in a high-speed blender until you have a thick, smooth green paste. It should look like very thick green hummus. Set aside.

Oil and line a 24–25cm pie dish or small roasting tin with baking paper. Lay over a sheet of filo pastry, brush it with oil, then lay another on it at a 90° angle. You’ll have a lot of overhang, but don’t worry about this yet. Repeat, so you have 4 layers of oiled pastry, then fold the overhang back to form the tart edges, scrumpling it a little if you wish.

Spread the pine nut mixture over the pastry base. Toss the mushrooms with the chopped sage, rosemary, oil and another teaspoon of sea salt, then scatter them evenly over the tart. Transfer to the oven and bake for 25 minutes, until the pastry is golden brown.

Squeeze over the lemon juice, scatter over a pinch of sea salt flakes and a little flat-leaf parsley, grind over a generous amount of black pepper, and serve.

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