Beverley Glock, founder of the Splat!Cooking website and cookery school offers some great child-friendly recipes to get kids cooking what they pick.
Makes 12 Tarts
500g ready made or home made puff pastry
200g string beans, cut into 2 crossways and blanched
100g broad beans or fresh Peas (or mixture) blanched
3 x courgettes, diced
2 x red onions, diced
12 x cherry tomatoes
1 block of feta cheese, drained and crumbled.
Olive oil spray
A little salt and freshly ground pepper
A little plain flour for rolling out the pastry
You will need....... Chopping board, sharp knife, saucepan, baking tray, large bowl, 12 Mini tartlet pans, wire rack, rolling pill, an adult.
First - Wash Your Hands!
1. GET AN ADULT to dice the courgettes and onions and turn the oven onto 200oc/400oF/Gas Mark 6 and put a shelf onto the centre runner. (Aga Roasting oven - middle shelf)
2. Spread out the vegetables onto the baking tray, squirt with a little olive oil spray and sprinkle with a little salt and freshly ground black pepper. GET AN ADULT to put the tray in the oven for 20 minutes until the edges of the vegetables start to go brown. GET AN ADULT to bring a saucepan of water to the boil and blanch the beans and peas for 2 minutes, drain and rinse with cold water.
3. Remove the Pastry from the fridge, Sprinkle a clean flat surface with the flour and roll out the pastry until it is approximately 2-3mm thick.
4. Place one of the mini tartlet pans onto the pastry and press down, GET AN ADULT to help you as you want to use the tartlet pan to cut a circle of pastry out. If it doesn’t cut through the pastry GET AN ADULT to carefully cut round it with the sharp knife. Continue until you have 12 circles, you may have to reroll the pastry a couple of times.
5. GET AN ADULT to remove the roast vegetables from the oven and place in a large bowl, add the beans, peas and feta cheese, stir gently to mix. Spoon the mixture between the tartlet pans and place a tomato in the middle then a circle of pastry over the top, pressing down at the edges to seal the pastry to the sides like you’re tucking the vegetables into bed.
6. GET AN ADULT to put the tartlet pans onto a baking tray and put them into the centre of the oven. Bake for 15-20 minutes until they are golden brown.
7. GET AN ADULT to take the tarts out of the oven and lift them onto the wire rack to cool in the pans for a few minutes. Very carefully, as the pans will be hot, tip the tarts upside down so the pastry is on the bottom and the veg is on the top.
