Vegetable Tart for Two

This is the perfect quick fix dinner for a hungry boyfriend and a health conscience girl :)

Ingredients:

1 pack of ready to roll puff pastry
1 tin of mix beans in chilli sauce (Tesco calls it a Taco sauce)
1 Onion
1 Leek
About 8 Plum Tomatoes
1 Chicken Breast (Optional but keeps the boyfriend happy)
1 Yellow Pepper
Salt & Pepper
Butter (Optional)
Olive Oil
Grease proof paper
Baking beans (Dried Beans)
A baking tray


Recipe:

Take the puff pastry out of the fridge and let it rest until it is room temperature (otherwise it will crack when you roll it out). Preheat the oven at 180 degrees.

Cut the puff pastry into shape (I cut around a 12inch cake tin & made two tarts for this meal but you can make a big rectangle tart for ease). Score 1cm around the edge of the pastry (this area will become your crust). If you want to impress, butter the crust to make the pastry golden.


Blind bake the pastry for 10 minutes (bake without the topping). To do this cut some grease proof paper into the shape of the inside of the tart. Put the paper on the tart and cover with baking beans (This weighs down the tart while allowing the crust to rise).


Whilst the pastry is cooking its time to chop up your vegetables (& chicken). Fry the onion for about 1 minutes then add the leek (and chicken). Fry for 3 minutes (until the chicken in white) and then add the other vegetables. Season the mix with salt & pepper. Fry until the vegetables are completely cooked.


The pastry should be ready during this time. Take it out the oven, remove the baking beans & paper and pour the beans in chilli sauce into the tart. Put back in the oven for another 2 minutes, until the beans are hot.


Take out the pastry, add the vegetables and serve hot. Yum :)