Goats Cheese and Red Onion Jam Pastries

In my fridge I had some soft goats cheese and baby plum tomatoes and in my freezer I had some ready made puff pastry. And in my cupboard I had a jar of red onion jam; so wondering what to do with all these nice things, I came up with this.

Very easy to make and perfect as a light lunch.

Yield: 2Author: Jan Bennett

Goats Cheese and Red Onion Jam Pastries

Quick and easy lunch idea!

prep time: 5 minscook time: 20 minstotal time: 25 mins

ingredients:

250g of Ready Made Puff Pastry - divided into two

1 Jar of Red Onion Jam

100g of Soft Goats Cheese

6 x Baby Plum Tomatoes

Some Fresh Thyme Leaves, chopped

Rocket Leaves and a Few Olives to Serve - if you like them

instructions

Preheat the even to 190C or 375F Gas 5

I rolled the pastry till into two oblongs until they were about a quarter of an inch thick - or slightly more.

Then I lightly scored (being careful not to go right the way through) a border of just over half an inch all the way round.

Taking a fork, lightly prick the pastry inside the border all over to prevent pastry on the inside part from rising as much as the rest of the pastry then place them on a non stick baking tray.

Bake in the heated oven for about 10 minutes, remove and very carefully retrace the line you made that formed the border.

Normally, you see in recipes where you would remove the top layer of pastry and either discard or use it as a lid. I didn't remove it, after re-tracing the scored line, I just pushed it to the bottom to make the base thicker and more yummy.

Now spread a good amount (to your liking) of the red onion jam all over the bottom and top with some goats cheese.

Now, add some halved cherry tomatoes. Sprinkle with some freshly chopped thyme leaves.

Return to the oven for (approx) a further 10 minutes until the cheese begins to melt and the pastry takes on a light golden brown colour.

Remove from the oven and top with some black olives and rocket and serve immediately.

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