In Spain, Christmas Eve is celebrated with a large family feast, eaten late in the evening and sometimes lasting several hours. It normally consists of several different courses, starting off with some tapas and then moving on to a first course (primer plato), a main course (plato principal), and ending with a dessert. This dish is ideal for a one of your tapas to kick off your feasting. It’s both different and special with a surprising blend of both sweet and savoury flavours.
PrintSheep’s Cheese & Black Grape Salsa Tart with Salted Caramel
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 45 mins
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Cuisine: Tapas
Ingredients
- 3 sheets of brick pastry (available in specialist North African stores or online, alternatively use filo pastry)
- 250g aged sheep’s cheese
- 115g black grape jam or another jam that you like
- 100g wallnuts
- butter (for greasing)
- 100g organic sugar
- 150ml whipped cream
- 20g butter (melted)
- 1/4 tsp cooking salt
Instructions
- First grease a cake tin with some butter. Then take your 3 sheets of brick pastry, wet one to make it more malleable and then shape around the inside of the tin. Repeat with the 2 other sheets so that you have 3 layers of pastry in your tin.
- Grate your cheese and add about half to your tin, sprinkling evenly.
- Next add the jam in a layer on top of the cheese. Just make sure the jam you use is not too sweet.
- Sprinkle the remaining cheese over the layer of jam and then add your walnuts and set to one side.
- Now to prepare the salted caramel sauce. In a saucepan, on a low heat, heat your sugar whilst stirring constantly with a wooden spoon.
- Once the sugar has melted, with a deep dark brown colour, add the whipped cream, melted butter and salt. Do be careful whilst doing this. The caramel is very sticky and if you get it on you it will stick to you and you can burn yourself badly.
- Continue to stir, over a low heat until all the ingredients have come together and the mixture has a smooth texture.
- Once your caramel is ready, pour over the top of your cheese tart and serve.
