Foods From Spain

• Apple and Plum Pudding
• Sticky plums
• Upside Down Plum Pudding
• Lamb with Sweet & Sour Plums with Runner Beans
• Plums on toast
• Caramelised Plums
• Brie and Plum Tart with Basil Pastry
• Fresh Fruit Kebabs
• Roasted Plum Flan
• Vanilla Rice Pudding with Plum Coulis
• Cheese on toast with Plum and Cranberry Chutney
• Sweet Plums in Spanish Red Wine

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Brie and Plum Tart with Basil Pastry

Ingredients

For the pastry:

200g Flour
100g Butter
1 Large Egg
1 tbsp Olive Oil
Basil Leaves
Pinch Salt

For the topping:
2 Plums
55g Brie

Method

• Preheat the oven to Gas mark 6/200c
• Take the flour, butter and salt and mix together until the mixture starts to look like breadcrumbs.
• Then place this mixture into a food processor and add the egg and also basil leaves.
• Mix this together until dough is formed.
• Then remove the dough from the processor and roll out to make a circle disc, which is around 15cm wide.
• Place the disc into a small frying pan and place over a small heat frying each side for 2 minutes.
• Meanwhile wash the plums, cut them into halves and remove the stones.
• Also cut the Brie into slices.
• Place both the plums and Brie over the pastry disc and then place on a tray and put in the oven for 10 minutes.
• Remove the tart from the oven and serve warm.