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Savoury & Sweet mini Filo Tarts

These recipes are for 6 tarts, to fit a large muffin tray - but you can adjust size, scale & ingredients to suit taste, mood, seasons, etc. Each variation will use around a quarter of a pack of filo, so upscale or make more than one type if you want to use it all, You can also freeze before baking. Adapted from Emma Sorrell.
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Servings 3

Ingredients
  

  • 1 pack of filo pastry follow instructions to defrost
  • Olive oil

Leek & Garlic Mushroom

  • 1 leek
  • 4-5 mushrooms
  • 1 clove garlic crushed
  • handful fresh herbs

‘Cheez’ & Caramelised Onion

  • 1 onion sliced
  • 6 slices ‘cheez’
  • 3 grapes or chopped dates optional

Date & Cinnamon Apple

  • 1 apple chopped
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp mixed spice
  • 1/4 tsp nutmeg
  • 6 pitted dates
  • handful chopped mixed nuts

Cranberry Orange & Pecan

  • 140 g cranberries
  • 1 orange
  • syrup to taste
  • 6 pecans

Instructions
 

  • Unroll and cut altogether into 3”X3” squares (or just bigger than muffin holes). Oil muffin tin. Layer 6-7 squares into each hole, overlapping at different angles, brushing with oil in between. Fill as desired (suggestions below).Top with a few more squares of pastry (brushing with oil) if you like. Bake 8-10min on 200C or until pastry browns. Enjoy!

Leek & Garlic Mushroom

  • Slice white end of leek into 6 coins. Saute in oil to soft. (To keep in coins, avoid stirring - just flip!) Place a coin in each case. Slice mushrooms and saute to soft, adding crushed garlic near the end. Sprinkle fresh herbs.

‘Cheez’ & Caramelised Onion

  • Caramelise onions over medium heat with 1tbsp oil. Stir every 5min for 20min until onions are brown and sticky-sweet. Layer in filo with 1 slice cheese (try ‘I AM NUT OKAY Crack On’), and half a grape or dates.

Date & Cinnamon Apple

  • Stew apple with 100ml water and spices. Once water has evaporated, fill filo cases. Top with a pitted date in each and nuts.

Cranberry Orange & Pecan

  • Heat cranberries in small pot with a orange juice/water (~50ml). Keep stirring to nice and thick, sweeten to taste (5-7min). Fill cases and top with a nut and orange zest and/or a quarter slice of orange.
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