Recipe - White Asparagus Tart

Ingredients:
For the Dough:
120 g flour
80 g cold butter
30 g grated Emmental cheese
a pinch of salt
¼ tsp grated nutmeg
1 large egg
saran wrap
For the Topping:
12 white asparagus stalks
100 g Emmental cheese
200 g crème fraîche
1 egg
salt and freshly ground black pepper
80 g diced bacon

Preparation:

white asparagus tart

For the Dough: Coarsely cut up butter. Sift flour onto counter top. Form a hollow in the middle, and add butter, cheese, egg, salt, and nutmeg. Knead ingredients with cold hands to form a smooth short pastry. Thoroughly knead dough and form into a ball. Wrap in saran wrap and chill for ca. ½ hour.

For the Topping: Peel asparagus and cut off the tough ends. Heat water in a pot and cook asparagus over medium heat ca. 5 minutes (depending on the thickness). Then immerse in cold water, drain, and lay aside.

Preheat oven to 190° C. Grease a tart pan and dust with flour.

white asparagus tart dough

Roll out dough to ca. 30 cm in diameter and place in tart pan. Press down firmly and pull up edge.

white asparagus tart filling

Mix Emmental cheese, crème fraîche, egg, and salt together. Spread the cheese mixture evenly over the dough and arrange the asparagus stalks in the form of a star on the mixture. Sprinkle on bacon and season with pepper to taste.

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