Recipes-not-recipes #26

The easiest shallot tarte tatin you've never made

It’s very rare I buy pastry to cook with, even though I do aspire to roll dough and turn it into a croissant like Meryl Streep in It’s Complicated. But when I picked up my veg box and found myself with more shallots than I knew what to do with, I kept thinking about a shallot tart spiked with tart, sweet balsamic vinegar and coloured with roasted beets. I had friends coming over for dinner and very little time, so… puff pastry. The key here is a liberal amount of oil and butter to make sure the flip goes as seamlessly as possible. And to make some tart sides to cut through.