Goats Cheese & Onion Pastries

Use a hearty shortcrust base then top with creamy cheese and crunchy walnuts and contrast with watercress salad

• Cooking Time Prep 50 mins
  Cook 10 mins
• Skill Level Easy
• Servings Serves 8

Nutrition per serving

• Kcalories

  546

• Protein

  14g

• Carbs

  27g

• Fat

  43g

• Saturates

  20g

• Fibre

  3g

• Sugar

  5g

• Salt

  1.8g

Ingredients

• For the onions
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• 3 large onions, halved and thinly sliced
• 1 tsp caster sugar
• 2 tbsp chopped walnuts
• 12 pitted Kalamata olives, halved
• 2 tsp chopped rosemary
• For the pastry & topping
• 500g pack all-butter shortcrust pastry
• 4 Capricorn goat's cheese, halved (keep the rind on)
• 8 walnuts halves
• For the dressed watercress
• generous handfuls watercress
• 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
• 3 tbsp walnut oil

Directions

1. For the onions, heat the oil in a non-stick pan. Add the onions, stir well, then cover and cook for 15 mins, stirring every now and then. Stir really well and add the sugar, lots of seasoning and the walnuts, olives and rosemary. Cook for 5 mins more, until soft and very golden.
2. Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Thinly roll out the pastry, then stamp out 8 fluted rounds with a 10cm cutter. Prick with a fork, then bake for 10 mins. Mix the dressing ingredients together. This can all be prepared a few days ahead.
3. Pile the onions onto the pastry rounds, top with goat?s cheese and place a walnut half on top of the cheese. Bake for 10 mins until the cheese is melty. Toss the watercress with the dressing, pile onto plates and serve the pastry on top.

Categories: All Christmas