Mushroom & Caramelised Onion Tartlets
These are not your average retro mushroom vol-au-vents, but rather bite-sized canapes, with bread as the base and topped with tasty chestnut mushrooms, fresh thyme, crème fraîche and gruyère cheese. The Caramelised Onion Marmalade from Tracklements adds a delicious layer of flavour to the tarts…
Makes: 12
Cooking time: 20min
Ingredients:
- 1tbsp butter
- 250g chestnut mushrooms, cleaned and thinly sliced
- 1tbsp crème fraîche
- 3-4tbsp fresh thyme leaves, finely chopped
- 12 slices of thin sliced white sandwich bread
- Butter, for spreading
- 4tbsp Tracklements Caramelised Onion Marmalade
- 100g grated gruyère or Cheddar
To Make:
- Preheat the oven to 220°C, Fan Oven 200°C, Gas Mark 7.
- In a frying pan, heat 1tbsp of butter, add the mushrooms and stir until the moisture has evaporated and the mushrooms are golden. Turn off the heat, stir in the crème fraiche.
- Add all but a sprinkling of thyme and chill the mixture in the fridge.
- Cut twelve 8cm circles out of the bread with a biscuit cutter (or a glass or a jam jar). Spread butter on one side of the circle and put it, butter side down, in a tartlet tin so that the bread creates a base and sides of the tartlet.
- Add a small teaspoon of Caramelised Onion Marmalade to each tartlet, top with the mushroom mixture and a sprinkling of grated cheese.
- Bake for 10-15min until golden and bubbling. Sprinkle over the rest of the thyme and serve hot or cold.
A store cupboard hero for both celebrity chefs and home cooks, the Tracklements range is handmade in Wiltshire using the best quality ingredients sourced locally wherever possible to ensure the products taste as good as, if not better than, homemade.
Tracklements Caramelised Onion Marmalade (RRP £4.20 for 345g) is available from fine food delis and farm shops nationwide and online at www.tracklements.co.uk.
