Avo Pastry Tart
Whatever is on your plate – always add an avo!
Recipe by: SAAGA
Serves: 8
Preparation time: 30 minutes + resting
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- For the avo pastry:
- 125 ml (½ cup) mashed avocado
- 330 ml (1⅓ cups) cake flour + extra
- 7.5 ml (½ tbsp) baking powder
- 2.5 ml (½ tsp) salt
- ±60 ml (¼ cup) cold water
- For the filling:
- 6 eggs
- 500 ml (2 cups) frozen peas, defrosted
- 125 ml (½ cup) crumbled feta
- Salt and pepper
- 1 firm-ripe avocado, halved, stoned and peeled
- Handful basil
How To Make Avo Pastry Tart
- For the pastry, blitz the avo until smooth.
- Mix through the flour, baking powder, salt and just enough water until it comes together in a ball.
- Dust a surface with extra flour and knead until smooth. Cover in plastic wrap and rest for 20 minutes.
- Roll the dough out into a circle of 5 mm thickness. Line a greased 23 cm x 4 cm deep quiche tin with the dough, trimming any overhang. Prick the base with a fork. Top with scrunched baking paper and baking weights (like dry beans). Refrigerate for 10 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 200° C. Bake the tart case for 10 minutes. Remove the baking paper and weights and bake for about 5 minutes or until light golden.
- For the filling, blitz the eggs, 375 ml (1½ cups) of the peas and 80 ml (⅓ cup) of the feta. Season with salt and pepper.
- Pour into the tart case and bake for about 30 minutes or until just set. Cool to room temperature.
- Make avo roses by placing 1 avocado half cut side down on a cutting board. Slice through the width into very thin slices.
Fan out the avocado slices into a straight line. Begin at one end and gently roll up into a spiral rose shape. Repeat with the remaining avo half. - Place the avocado roses on the tart with remaining 125 ml (½ cup) peas and 45 ml (3 tbsp) feta. Top with basil.