Recipe: Perfect Sig's Olive, Pesto and Tomato Tartlet

Sig's Olive, Pesto and Tomato Tartlet.

You can cook Sig's Olive, Pesto and Tomato Tartlet using 5 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Sig's Olive, Pesto and Tomato Tartlet

1. Prepare 1 of jar of best olives, garlic and chillies in oil, 250 to 275 grams.
2. You need 1 1/2 tsp of good green pesto to taste, homemade or bought for ease.
3. Prepare 275 grams of homemade or readymade puff pastry (flakey pastry).
4. Prepare 375 grams of ripe garden tomatoes, not cherry.
5. It's 1 small of bunch spring onions, chopped.

Sig's Olive, Pesto and Tomato Tartlet step by step

1. Flour your worktop evenly and lightly. Roll out the pastry not to thin, into one circle that measures about 24 cm in diameter or four smaller ones that measure about 6 cm each. Put onto prepared baking tin and chill in the fridge for about 30 to 45 minutes.
2. Drain the olives very well into a cup, use oil for other purpose if you like.
3. Add the pesto to the olives , puree until you get a very fine paste..
4. Preheat your oven to about 200 °C (400 °F) or gas mark 6.
5. Rinse the tomatoes, dry and slice evenly into thin slices of no more than about half a centimeter thickness.
6. Remove the pastry in the tin from fridge and spread not to thick with the olive and pesto mix..
7. Slice the spring onions thinly and sprinkle over the olive and pesto mix..
8. Arrange the tomato slices on top of the pesto and spring onions , overlapping each one of them a little.
9. When your oven is ready bake the cake for about 35 minutes., depending on size of cakes. After about 35 minutes reduce the temperature to about 150°C (300°C) or gas 2 . Bake for another 45 minutes but check in between this time however depends on how thick you rolled the pastry,and/ or until the cake is golden brown and the tomatoes are cooked ..
10. When slightly cooled sprinkle with torn basil. I enjoyed this at room temperature.
11. Add cheese if you want to or any other ingredient that you like , I just wanted the taste of tomato and olives, and not another pizza type recipe..