Zucchini & Feta Tart

One of the many amazing recipes from Australia's Gourmet Traveller Magazine website. I was looking for a recipe to use up the last harvest of zucchini and tomatoes from the garden, and what a better way to celebrate the beginning of fall than with this tasty and healthy tart. The colors are amazing and will make your palate happy!

Zucchini and feta tart with roasted cherry tomatoes

Serves 6

250 gm	butter puff pastry (see note)
3	zucchini, thinly sliced on a mandolin
200 gm	Bulgarian sheep feta, coarsely crumbled
¼ cup	coarsely chopped dill
1	lemon, finely grated rind only
1 clove	garlic, crushed
300 gm	truss cherry tomatoes
1 tbsp	extra-virgin olive oil
1 tbsp	red wine vinegar

1	Preheat oven to 200C. Roll out pastry on a floured surface to 5mm thick and use to line a lightly greased 11.5cm x 34cm loose-bottomed, fluted tart tin, folding in any excess pastry. Line pastry-lined tin with baking paper, weight down with pastry weights or rice and bake blind for 15 minutes. Remove paper and weights and bake for 5 minutes or until golden.
2	Combine zucchini, feta, dill, lemon rind and garlic in a bowl and season to taste with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Spoon into prepared pastry case and bake for 15 minutes or until golden.
3	Meanwhile, place tomatoes on a separate oven tray, drizzle with olive oil, red wine vinegar and season to taste. Place in oven with tart and cook for 10 minutes or until tomatoes just split, then remove and keep warm. Stand tart for at least 10 minutes before cutting. Serve tart warm or at room temperature with roasted cherry tomatoes.

RECIPE GOURMET FOOD TEAM PHOTOGRAPHY CHRIS COURT STYLING EMMA KNOWLES