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Home > Recipes > Sweet Red Onion and Edam Tart

Sweet Red Onion and Edam Tart

This delicious tart combines sweet caramelised red onions, with thyme and Edam. Serve warm with new potatoes and a green salad.

  • Preparation time: 10 minutes
  • Cooking time: 1 hour 10 minutes
  • Serves: 6

Ingredients:

  • 25g butter
  • 3 large red onions, thinly sliced
  • 2tbsp freshly chopped thyme
  • 350g ready-made shortcrust pastry
  • 330ml reduced fat crème fraîche
  • 3 medium eggs
  • Pinch nutmeg
  • 150g Edam cheese, grated
  • Extra thyme sprigs to garnish

Method:

  • Melt the butter in a large pan, add the onions and thyme and cover and cook for 30-35 minutes. Stir occasionally, until the onions start to caramelise. Allow to cool.
  • Preheat oven to 190ºC, 375ºF, gas mark 6.
  • Roll out the pastry and use to line a 23cm (9in) loose-bottomed quiche tin. Cover the base with baking paper, and fill with ceramic baking beans. Bake for 15 minutes, then remove the paper and beans, return to the oven for a further five minutes until golden.
  • Place the crème fraîche, eggs and nutmeg in a bowl and beat together. Stir in the onions and half the cheese and pour into the bottom of the pastry base. Sprinkle with the remaining cheese and some small thyme sprigs.
  • Bake for 30 minutes until the top is golden and the filling set. Cool for five minutes, then cut into slices.

Nutrition file: Edam cheese

A mild, delicately flavoured cheese, Edam is named after a Dutch port town that's just outside Amsterdam. It's a naturally made and matured cheese that's ripened for four weeks to give it that creamy, mild taste. Here are some other facts about Edam you might not know…

  1. Edam contains 24 percent fat, which is 25 percent less fat than cheddar. If you're watching your fat intake, however, Edam light contains just 12 percent fat.
  2. Edam is not only lower in fat than cheddar but it's higher in calcium too (14 percent more calcium than cheddar, to be precise).
  3. Salt is essential for the taste of Edam, as well as its shelf life. There is 2.7g of salt in 100g of Edam, which works out as 0.8g of salt in a 30g portion (about the size of a matchbox). The recommended amount of salt you should eat in a day is 6g.
  4. Like other cheeses, Edam is an important source of vitamins A, B and D. It's also provides protein (70g of cheese produces the same amount of protein as 100g of meat).

To find out more, visit: www.edam.co.uk

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