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Nanou's tuna tart

Crisp puff pastry topped with tuna, mushrooms and cooked shallots.

91,0284.1/5 for 21 ratings

Last modified on: September 11^th 2011

For 1 tart, you will need:

1 250 g Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée)
2 200 g mushrooms
3 2 tablespoons lemon juice
4 2 shallots
5 3 tablespoons olive oil
6 1 tablespoon flour
7 100 g tuna in oil
8 200 g cream
9 salt
10 pepper
Total weight: 898 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
27 min.	1 hour 9 min.	1 hour 36 min.

Keeping: When cooked, 1 or 2 days in the fridge.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Roll out the puff pastry and line the mould or tin. Prick the bottom all over and leave to wait in the fridge.

Preheat the oven to 200°C (390°F).

Stage 2 - 10 min.

Peel 200 g mushrooms and chop. Sprinkle with 2 tablespoons lemon juice.

>Set aside.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Prepare 2 shallots, chop and set aside.

Stage 4 - 2 min.

Heat 3 tablespoons olive oil in a pan over medium heat, then add the chopped shallot, salt and pepper. Cook for 1 or 2 minutes.

Note: if you are using tinned tuna in oil, use the oil from the tin.

Stage 5 - 30 min.

Add the chopped mushrooms, stir well and cook until the liquid released by the mushrooms has almost all evaporated.

Stage 6 - 2 min.

Add 1 tablespoon flour and stir well. Cook while stirring for 1 or 2 minutes.

Stage 7 - 2 min.

Add 100 g tuna in oil and stir well.

Stage 8 - 5 min.

Add 200 g cream, stir well and cook over low heat for a further 5 minutes.

Stage 9 - 5 min.

Pour the mixture into the pastry case.

Stage 10 - 30 min.

Bake for about 30 minutes...

Stage 11

...until the tart is nicely browned.

Eat hot or warm, preferably with a green salad.

Remarks

You can also make this tart using shortcrust pastry.

You might like to try adding herbs of your choice to the mixture before it is cooked.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,530 Kcal or 10,593 Kj	50 gr	127 gr	203 gr
127 %	19 %	12 %	31 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
282 Kcal or 1,181 Kj	6 gr	14 gr	23 gr
14 %	2 %	1 %	3 %

Per tart
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,530 Kcal or 10,593 Kj	50 gr	127 gr	203 gr
127 %	19 %	12 %	31 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 1 tart : 3.93 €

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Source

One of Nanou's recipe's, of course.

More recipes?

This recipe uses (among others)

	Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Little caramelized peach tarts, Mirlitons, Icelandic-style fish and vegetable pie, Two-cheese quiche, Strawberry feuilleté, ... All
	Mushrooms: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Sauce Normande (for fish), Beef Wellington, Celeriac and mushroom gratin, Crispy potato and mushroom brik rolls, Coq au vin, ... All
	Cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Grapefruit moelleux, Coconut-vanilla cream for Elsa , Green bean purée, Nicholas's fish, New tiramisu, ... All
	Tuna in oil: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Baker's pizza, Cretan salad, Baker's tuna and mushroom tart, Crunchy courgette and mushroom salad, Springtime mixed salad, ... All

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