30 min prep time
40 min cook time
Serves 8 people
18g NUTS PER SERVE

Ingredients

Pastry

  • 2 cups plain flour
  • 125g cold butter, diced
  • ½ teaspoon cooking salt
  • 1 cup raw macadamias, chopped
  • 2-3 tablespoons iced water

Filling

  • 4 eggs
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 375ml pure cream
  • ½ cup parsley leaves, finely chopped
  • 12 sage leaves, finely chopped
  • 3 sprigs thyme, finely chopped
  • 120g soft goats’ cheese or marinated goats feta (drained)

Method

  1. Put the flour, butter, salt and macadamias into a food processor and process until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
  2. With the machine still running, add the iced water one tablespoon at a time, until the mixture just comes together, do not overwork.
  3. Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface and form into a disc, wrap in cling film. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
  4. Pre-heat the oven to 180°C. Put the dough between two sheets of baking paper and roll out until 3-4mm thick. Line a tart tin and trim.
  5. Once pressed into the tin, line the dough with a sheet of baking paper or foil and fill with uncooked rice, dried beans or baking weights.
  6. Bake for 8 minutes, then remove the paper and baking weights and return to the oven for a further 12 minutes or until it begins to turn golden.
  7. While the crust is in the oven, prepare the filling by whisking together the eggs, cream and herbs, season to taste with cracked black pepper and sea salt.
  8. When the crust is ready, pour in the egg mixture.
  9. Roughly break up the goats’ cheese and scatter it evenly across the tart.
  10. Reduce the oven temperature to 170°C and bake for 15-20 minutes or until just set.

Tips

Shortcrust pastry can be a little tricky to manage. An easy way of transferring the dough into the tart tin is to peel back the top layer of baking paper and invert the rolled dough over the tin, peeling the remaining paper off once the dough is in the tin.

Credit

Recipe courtesy of Australian Macadamias
Nutrients per serve
Energy 2,697kJ
Protein 12.6g
Fat 53g
Saturated fat 26.4g
Carbohydrate 28.9g
Sugars 2.6g
Dietary fibre 4.5g
Sodium 370mg
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