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Beet Crostata with a Pepper-Parmesan Crust

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Beet Crostata with a Pepper-Parmesan Crust

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  • This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Beets
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    monkeymom's Notes: I love beets, but don’t get around to cooking them often because my husband hates them. Lucky for me, I had two great excuses to bring beets back into the kitchen - this week’s theme and dinner...

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Serves 6

  1. Cut greens from beets. Rinse and dry beets. Then wrap in foil. Wrap garlic in foil after drizzling with olive oil. Bake beets and garlic at 350°F for 1 hour. Unwrap and let cool completely.

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  2. For crust, put flour, salt, pepper, and parmesan in a food processor bowl fitted with a steel blade. Add the butter and pulse until the butter is the size of peas. With the motor running, add the ice water while pulsing until just before the dough becomes a solid mass. Turn dough onto a floured surface and form into a disk. You can wrap with plastic and refrigerate while you prepare the filling.

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  3. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.

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  4. Reduce balsamic vinegar until it becomes syrupy (reduced to about 1/3). This happens pretty quick. Remove to small bowl.

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  5. Remove peel from beets (they should easily slide off. You can peel directly into the foil and discard). Slice beets into rounds and set aside.

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  6. Divide dough into 3 equal portions. Roll out one portion to ¼ in thick round about 6-8 inches in diameter. Transfer to a baking sheet.

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  7. Cut roasted garlic bulbs cross-wise so each clove is halved. Squeeze out roasted garlic onto dough and spread around leaving a 1 in border. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.

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  8. Arrange 1/3 of beets slices in a round on top of garlic. Generously tuck goat cheese and walnuts between slices. Sprinkle with salt.

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  9. Drizzle with 1/3 of reduced balsamic vinegar. Finely grate a little orange rind evenly on top. Turn and pleat edges over toppings. Drizzle with olive oil.

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  10. Brush dough with beaten egg. Bake at 400°F for 20-25 minutes until tops are golden brown. Let cool slightly.

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  11. Drizzle with olive oil and serve. A squeeze of orange and/or a sprinkling of parmesan is nice too.

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Reply

Wow, this looks beautiful! Going to have to try this. I love crispy cheesy crusts.

Img_0828 Reply

these are so pretty, and sound delicious! I am going to tuck this away in my recipe box for entertaining soon.

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Phew, my husband would love this. Adding it to the "must-do" list.

Glutton1 Reply

I'm thinking there's some sort of Y chromosome issue here, because MY husband hates beets, too! And he's not otherwise a picky eater! Next time, he's away, it's beet crostata for me!

Monkeys Reply

When my husband read through this he said "I eat beet greens, but I didn't say I liked them". So I guess I'm in the same boat as mrslarkin. My husband was very happy that he isn't the only beet-hating guy around!

036 Reply

That is hilarious! My husband is a charter member of the beet / feta / goat cheese hating club too ...

Lobster_001 Reply

Include my husband in that club too...

Wedding_pictures_162 Reply

And I thought I was the only one whose husband hated all the foods I like (beets, goat cheese, parmesan, mustard, feta cheese, all greens except spinach, walnuts...the list goes on and on...)

This looks wonderful--I'm spending a few days with my sister next month; maybe I'll make it for her!

Chocolate_peppermint_truffle_cookies_032 Reply

Great idea! My husband can't stand beets either. And it's funny because he likes almost everything else. I make a lot of small individual tarts through the year and will definitely make this one. And so beautiful.

Henrykiss Reply

oh i love this! beautiful!

Kk2 Reply

You've got the beet! These look beautiful. Magazine-worthy...Looking forward to trying them!

Mrs Reply

Your husband sounds like my husband (minus liking the beet greens.) Love your recipe - very inventive! They look like rustic little fruit pies!

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