Goat Cheese And Tomato Tart

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup cold unsalted butter
• 1 cup flour
• 3/4 cup cornmeal
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons ice water
• 1/2 cup packed fresh basil
• 7 ounces room temp goat cheese
• 6 tablespoons room temp unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 3/4 lb cherry tomatoes or 3/4 lb yellow cherry tomato, cut in half

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• 2 for crust cut butter into small pieces.
• 3 in a food processor pulse together flour, cornmeal and salt.
• 4 add butter and pulse until mixture looks like coarse meal.
• 5 add ice water 1 t.
• 6 at a time, pulsing after each addition.
• 7 press dough evenly into bottom and up the sides of a 10x7x1 inch rectangular tart pan-removeable sides are helpful.
• 8 trim dough flush with top of tart pan.
• 9 chill crust for 15 minutes, then cover with foil and weights and bake for 10 minutes.
• 10 remove weights and foil and cook for another 5 minutes.
• 11 remove and place on a rack to cool while preparing filling.
• 12 chop basil well.
• 13 in a large bowl whisk together the cheese, butter, sour cream, eggs, and pepper.
• 14 stir in basil.
• 15 pour into prepared crust and arrange halved tomatoes, cut side up over custard.
• 16 lightly press tomatoes into custard.
• 17 lightly season with salt and pepper.
• 18 bake in the lower third of your oven for 25 minutes.
• 19 remove to cooling rack.
• 20 cut and serve warm or freeze.