Picnic-perfect: Georgina Hayden’s Greek Salad Tart

Everything astir this tart screams summer, from nan cheery lines of sliced herb to nan ribbons of lemony cucumber. Eat a slice, unopen your eyes and you will instantly beryllium transported to nan Aegean. Bake nan tart up of time, because it’s cleanable served astatine room temperature. If I americium taking it connected a picnic, I for illustration to tub up nan cucumber ribbons separately, past compression complete nan citrus and crumble successful nan feta conscionable earlier serving.

Greek crockery tart

Prep 10 min
Cook 50 min
Serves 6-8

If you person immoderate plant-based eaters successful nan mix, usage a non-dairy puff pastry and omit nan feta.

400g ripe vine tomatoes
Sea brackish and black pepper
500g puff pastry
1 ample egg, beaten
1 reddish onion, peeled and finely sliced
3 tbsp capers
50g achromatic olives, pitted and chopped
1 tsp dried oregano
Olive oil
½ cucumber, trimmed
½ lemon, juiced
75g feta

Heat nan oven to 210C (190C fan)/410F/gas 6½ and statement a baking expanse pinch greaseproof paper.

Finely portion nan tomatoes pinch a crisp knife, truthful they are little than 5mm thick. Put them successful a ample colander, flip pinch a half-teaspoon of oversea salt, and time off successful nan sink.

Roll nan puff pastry into a astir 32cm × 25cm rectangle and people a separator 2cm from nan edge. Transfer to nan lined baking expanse and brushwood nan separator pinch nan beaten egg. Lay 3 aliases 4 rows of nan sliced tomatoes wrong nan pastry border, and nestle successful nan slices of bulb arsenic you go. Scatter complete nan capers and chopped olives, sprinkle complete half nan dried oregano and drizzle pinch 2 tablespoons of oliva oil. Bake for 25–30 minutes, until nan separator is aureate each complete and nicely risen, past region and time off to cool.

To make nan topping, peel nan cucumber into ribbons pinch a rootlike peeler and put successful a bowl. Season generously, compression complete nan citrus juice, past sprinkle successful nan remaining half-teaspoon of dried oregano, crumble successful nan feta, adhd a tablespoonful of oliva lipid and flip well. Scatter nan cucumber operation complete nan apical of nan cooled tart conscionable earlier serving.