COOKING COMPANION


CHORIZO AND SHALLOT GALETTE


This quick and easy galette with shallots and chorizo serves as an impressive starter for 6 people, or as a light lunch for 4.


Serves 6


100g cooking chorizo, sliced 8 shallots, quartered 1 sheet of ready-rolled puff pastry


2 roast peppers, sliced (from a jar is fine) 125g mozzarella, torn into pieces 1 egg, beaten Fresh basil leaves, to serve


1 Preheat the oven to 220C/gas 7. Cook the chorizo in a frying pan until crisp on each side. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside. Reduce the heat and cook the shallots gently while you put together the rest of the tart. Don’t over brown the chorizo and


shallots as they will continue to cook in the oven.


2 Unroll the pastry and gently pull out the long sides and trim off the corners so it becomes more circular. Lay the pastry on a non- stick baking tray.


3 Leaving a 3cm border of pastry clear, fork lots of small holes in the centre area of the pastry, then scatter with the chorizo, pepper, chunks of mozzarella and finally the shallots. Carefully fold the edges of the pastry up to slightly overlap the edges of the filling.


4 Brush the crust with egg wash and bake in the oven for 30–35 mins until the pastry is crisp and puffed up, and the filling is dry and browned.


5 When ready to serve, scatter with the fresh basil leaves.


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