Check out Chef Ashley Simone's appearance on WCIU's "You and Me This Morning" making these tasty vegan treats.
Tomato and Zucchini Tartlets are perfect this time of year and especially for your Labor Day BBQ. There's still lots of great fresh tomatoes and zucchinis at farmer's markets, or maybe in your own garden. This recipes has several parts. It's a great appetizer and one that's fun to make. In fact, if you have kids, get them to help make these.
Tomato and Zucchini Tartlets are perfect this time of year and especially for your Labor Day BBQ. There's still lots of great fresh tomatoes and zucchinis at farmer's markets, or maybe in your own garden. This recipes has several parts. It's a great appetizer and one that's fun to make. In fact, if you have kids, get them to help make these.
Recipes
HUMMUS
15 oz can of garbanzo beans,
drained, reserve water
¼ cup olive oil
¼ cup lemon juice (juice of one lemon)
2 TB tahini
2 cloves of garlic, chopped
½ ts ground coriander
½ ts cumin
1/8 ts cayenne
¼ ts ground white pepper
¼ ts salt
Drain one can of garbanzo, reserving the liquid in another
bowl. Using a food processor or a blender, blend garbanzo beans, olive oil,
lemon juice, tahini, garlic, and some of the reserved liquid from the garbanzo
beans (possibly ¼ cup).
Put in blender. Stop regularly and push
down the mixture in the sides. Add liquid as needed. Once it’s running smoothly,
add in spices. Add salt and pepper as needed. Set aside.
GRILLED VEGETABLES
1 roma tomato
1 zucchini
1 TB olive oil
salt and pepper
¼ ts French thyme
Slice both tomato and zucchini into
rounds 1/8 inch thick. Put in a bowl and toss with olive oil, salt and pepper,
and thyme.
Grill the vegetables either on an
outdoor grill or on a searing hot grill pan. Make sure that the grill/grill pan
is clean and well oiled before putting on the vegetables. Grill the vegetables
until you get dark grill marks on either side a minute or two. This is just to get the nice grill
marks.
Take off the grill and set aide to
cool.
The assembly
2 sheets of puff pastry
olive oil
hummus
grilled roma tomato
grilled
zucchini
½ cup finely chopped (chiffonade) fresh basil
Take out the puff pastry and allow to
thaw. About an hour. Make sure you don’t leave out too long or it will be hard
to work with.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Flour your surface. Take out puff
pastry and unfold it. Flour a rolling pin and smooth it out, evening it out. Use cookie cutters. Flour them and cut
out rounds (shapes) and put onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or silpats.
If using parchment paper, use a little cooking spray. Place on sheet with room
in between.
Poke holes in the pastry with a fork
(to ensure it doesn’t rise too much. This is called docking the dough.) Brush with olive oil.
Take hummus and spread over rounds up
to 1/8 inch from edge, medium layer maybe 1/8 inch deep (or more if you’d like).
Then place one piece of the grilled tomato or zucchini on each of the rounds.
Bake in oven for 18-20 minutes.
Serve tartlets hot or room temperature
with the chiffonade of fresh basil on top.
And, you can watch a segment from WCIU and see how to make these.
And, you can watch a segment from WCIU and see how to make these.
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