serves
8
prep
10 minutes
cook
10 minutes
difficulty
Easy
serves
8
people
preparation
10
minutes
cooking
10
minutes
difficulty
Easy
level
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A Little Bit Fancy
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Ingredients
- 500 ml (2 cups) canola oil
- 1 packet brick pastry or spring roll wrappers
- 200 ml white taramasalata
- Selection of fine herbs that have flavour (e.g. borage, elderflower, lavender flowers, rosemary flowers, nasturtiums, chervil, pea tendrils, grape vine sprouts)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 170˚C.
- Cut the brick pastry into 8.5 cm rounds. Keeping the rounds covered while you work to prevent them drying out, use a paper press (see Note) to cut a lace pattern into the rounds.
- Place the oil in a bowl. Working one at time, dip a lace patterned round into the oil, then carefully remove and place over the underside of a small aluminium tart tin. Sandwich with a second tart tin and place on a baking tray. Repeat with the remaining rounds. Bake for 7 minutes or until crisp. Carefully remove the pastry shells from the tins and cool on a wire rack.
- Spread the tarama into the inside of a large stainless bowl (to increase exposed surface area) and cover with plastic wrap. Poke a hole in the plastic wrap and smoke using the smoking gun.
- To serve, place a tart shell on a serving plate and pipe a generous dollop of taramasalata inside. Top with a selection of herbs and serve immediately.
Note
• Andrew Ballard purchased his hand-rolling machine (called “DIYCUTS”) from Kaiser Craft or there are also versions available at Spotlight or online.
Photography by Kitti Gould.
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Cook's Notes
Oven temperatures are for conventional; if using fan-forced (convection), reduce the temperature by 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are fresh (unless specified) and cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified. | All eggs are 55-60 g, unless specified.
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