"This is beyond good"
Burrata, caramelised leek & bacon tart
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Cook time: 20mins
Serves or Makes: 6
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ingredients
- 112 gram plain flour
- a pinch salt
- 140 milliliter water
- 125 gram unsalted butter
- 250 gram smoked bacon
- 150 gram fresh burrata
- 375 gram raw, chopped leeks
Method
Step 1
This essentially two recipes, so will try and simplify the puff pastry as best as I can. You begin by literally putting the flour, salt and water into a bowl and mixing it. If you're doing it in a machine, it's pretty straight forward - you'll just need a dough hook attachment which will bring the ingredients together beautifully and in good time. However, for those making this by hand - it's a slightly less glamourous process! You'll need to get your hands stuck in, massaging the ingredients together until there's a resemblance of dough. You then set this aside to sit for 15 minutes.
Step 2
In the meantime, unwrap you butter and roll it out a bit so it becomes about 1.5cm thick and is more of a rectangle than a cube. You can then flour the surface you'll roll out on!
Step 3
Flop the dough out of the bowl and onto the floured surface. You then grab your rolling pin and roll it out a bit so that the shape created is big enough to parcel up the butter, which is what you then dough. Making sure it's wrapped up tightly, you then begin to roll vertically to create an elongated rectangle. Using lots of flour as you go to prevent sticking!
Step 4
Once it's roughly as long as the length from your elbow to the end of your fingers (completely random suggestion, but seemed like a good one though:) you then fold up the bottom third and fold the remaining top third over the bottom two. You rotate this parcel 90c clockwise and repeat the process of rolling & folding again. This now has to be done twice more so you have 3 folds in total and then place the pastry in the fridge to firm up.
Step 5
Half an hour or so later, take out the pastry and repeat the R&Fs three times more to give you a total of six. You have then completed the only vaguely difficult bit of this recipe! However, if you don't have the luxury of time on your hands, you can alternatively just by ready-made.
Step 6
Next, you need to slice up the leeks if you haven't already done so, keeping them chunky. You then transfer them into a pan with a generous tbsp of butter and saute over high heat. Once softened, turn down to a lower heat and if necessary add a bit more butter, then just leave them to caramelize.
Step 7
For the bacon, I say smoked but it's whatever kind you have kicking around in your fridge as it all tastes great! Slice it up and pan fry until it's cooked but not crispy yet.
Step 8
You then roll out the pastry to whatever shape takes your fancy. Mine was a rectangle as I did it to fit my baking tray. Best to roll it out onto some baking paper to avoid any sticking.
Step 9
First, you base it up with the caramelised leeks, which should be beautifully golden by now. Sprinkle them around the pastry leaving an edge which you'll then fold over at the end. On top of that goes the burrata, which you just rip up and spread around equally. Then lastly, scatter over the bacon. Fold over the edges to give a rough enclosure.
Step 10
Put into a 180c oven and cook until the bacon has crisped and the pastry is golden! Roughly 20 minutes but oven dependent of course. ENJOY