You know how sometimes you have a Costco bag of Texas sweet onions in your pantry and you really need to do something to get rid of them? Oh, maybe it’s just me? Well, I did find myself in such a predicament recently and I decided that I would make a sweet onion tart. Because you know…I have tart pans and I want to use them. And I had an excessive number of onions sitting in my pantry.
Tada! This one obviously is a baked tart and it doesn’t use a crumb tart shell like the previous fruit tarts I’ve been making.
I made the crust from this French Onion Tarte recipe because I was too lazy to find the one I normally use. It’s not a bad crust. It bakes up very nice and crisp. It isn’t terribly flaky, but then again, it’s not a pie crust either. It is VERY buttery though. I probably won’t be using this crust recipe again. Also, remember to dock and weight when you blind bake. I…may have forgotten.
For the filling, I decided to sauté two onions, thinly sliced, and threw in the remaining bacon pieces I had from something else. I also ended up throwing in about 1.5 tbsp of dried thyme in an effort to get rid of some thyme. Salt and pepper per usual.
For a little more flavor, I did end up spreading a thin layer of whole grain mustard on the bottom of the crust before dumping the onion mixture in. And then as I was looking at it, I decided that I needed something to bind the filling together, so I whisked up two eggs and poured that over the onion mixture. And then I remembered I had some sheep’s milk feta still in the fridge and that would go well with everything already in the tart, so I crumbled up about 2oz of that and sprinkled it over the top. And then I finally put it in the oven at 425degF for about 30min before I ended up throwing half the contents of my fridge on top of the tart.
End result was very good. I think I’d made this again. I’ve had it both as a light dinner paired with a salad and also for breakfast. It would work really well for brunch too.
I do not much feel like writing this into a recipe format.
Oh and here’s a bonus fruit tart that I made with the other tart pan that I have. Fruit tarts just look so nice.
Random moosages as I see fit. 