A super easy organic vegetarian tart filled with seasonal vegetables, beetroot, and courgettes (zucchini). Made with a puff pastry crust that’s crispy on the outside and topped with salty crumbly feta cheese. This simple vegetable tart recipe makes a great starter at a dinner party or a light lunch served with salad and some of your favourite sides.
I absolutely love vegetables and always enjoy discovering new ways to use them and bring out the flavours. For me, the best way to eat them is by treating them simply with just a few herbs or spices to really allow the natural flavours of the vegetables to shine. One of my favourite ways to cook vegetables, which really helps to bring out the flavours, is roasting them. Give me a massive bowl of roasted vegetables and I promise you that I could polish off the entire lot. Roasting them intensifies their flavour and you also get those crispy bits where they have caught slightly.
This tart contains some of my most favourite foods. Puff pastry is one of my guilty pleasure, I think it’s that deliciously buttery flavour flaky texture, digging your fork in and seeing all those layers is satisfying. Now, feta cheese…no explanation needed really. Feta with everything, please!
A simple organic vegetarian tart filled with beetroot, and courgettes. This makes a great starter or a light lunch served with your favourite sides.
- 1 packet of organic ready roll puff pastry
- 2 organic courgettes (zucchini) sliced
- 2 organic beetroots peeled and sliced
- sprigs of fresh thyme
- 3-4 tbsp crumbled organic feta cheese
- 1 beaten egg
- Salt and pepper to taste
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Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and line a sheet pan with greaseproof paper.
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Place the ready roll puff pastry on the sheet pan and start to layer the thinly sliced beetroots and courgettes in straight lines on top. Leave an inch of puff pastry around the vegetables. Season to taste.
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Fold over the edges of the puff pastry to create a border/crust. Brush the exposed pastry with the beaten egg.
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Sprinkle with the fresh thyme and bake in the oven for 20 minutes or until the pastry has turned a golden brown.
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Once baked, sprinkle with the feta cheese and drizzle with extra virgin olive oil before serving.
Courgettes and beetroot are in season at the moment and what’s great is the ones I used in this recipe are organic. I absolutely love learning where my food comes from and with organic produce; you know that it’s literally come straight from the ground and onto your plate. I’ve teamed up with the Organic Trade Board on their #FeedYourHappy campaign to share my favourite food that makes me happy, using organic ingredients.
There are many advantages of buying organic produce such as fewer pesticides are used during the farming process, no use of artificial colours or preservatives, always free range, no routine use of antibiotics or GM ingredients.
#FeedYourHappy ambassador Sarah Cox, explains why she enjoys eating organic food:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybBvHt5_xIw&feature=youtu.be
With only 5 main ingredients, this simple tart couldn’t be any easier to whip up – fuss free cooking at it’s best. Since only a few ingredients are used it means that the flavours of the courgette a and beetroot are the stars of the show. The salty feta really complements the natural sweetness of the vegetables too. Now I’m off to make another one of these for lunch!
*This recipe was commissioned by Organic Trade Board, but all opinions are my own.
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Ooooh, anything with puff pastry is gorgeous! Does the beetroot actually cook or does it still have a crunch to it?
Indeed. They become tender with a slight crunch. You have to slice them pretty thinly.
I am loving the vibrant colours in this recipe!!! And that it is organic of course! We are growing a lot of our own produce at the minute and only using natural pesticides etc as it’s so important not to add nasties to our food.
Thank you. Yes, I think it’s important that people become more aware about what is used when their food is grown.
Oh wow what a delicious looking meal idea, I love how colourful it is. I could definitely see myself trying this.
Thanks Sarah! I hope you like it.
The colours are just so wonderful here! I’d love a slice! And a big shout out for using Organic veggies too!
Thank you! The colours do make it look pretty.
Wow, the colours in this dish are so gorgeous – and it looks really delicious too!
Thank you! I love the jewel colour of the beetroot.
I love vegetables too! And I love finding new recipes for them. This looks so easy to make. It would be a lovely lunch entree to serve to friends or family
Thank you! It’s incredible simple.
It is sure pretty to look at,I’m sure many readers will love to try this out.
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This sounds delicious. Courgette and beetroot are two of my favoruite vegetables! I don’t think that I have paired them together before though!
Thank you! They’re so nice together.
Take out the beetroot and that would be my perfect dish!! I love feta cheese, and courgette too, but beetroot is a no go for me!
It looks great! I have no doubt if I attempted it, it would not look anywhere near as good. I’m rubbish at presentation!
Oh I’m sure your version would look great!
Love the look of that tart – feta and beetroot are two of my favs. This would make for a great Sunday lunch with new potatoes 🙂 x
Yes and maybe a nice salad on the sidez
You really just cannot go wrong with chucking veggies on some puff pastry!
Hahaha! Not at all.
I haven’t made a tart in ages even though I love them, although I think I’d swap out the beetroot as I just can’t get into loving them x
Tarts are so easy to make!
I love the sound of this. Beetroot and feta are a match made in heaven!
Feta with everything just works.
oh wow these look and sound amazing that I am going to have to try them out for myself and what amazing pictures
Thank you! Let me know how you get on.
The colours and way the vegetables are arranged is so pretty! The flavours sound awesome together too!
Thanks Emily!
I can already tell you that my OH would be drooling at the sight of there! She loves courgettes and feta, so it would be a great little surprise for her
Wow how fresh and vibrant does this tart look? I hadn’t thought of combining courgette with beetroot but it looks the perfect combination and feta is always good too!
They works so well together. Thanks for commenting!
They work so well together. Thank you.
oh my gosh this looks amazing! They are such a great combo! x
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Oh this looks absolutely delicious! I love beetroot, its always so warming and comforting xxx
Oh wow, this looks delicious! I’m going to make this for my grandma as she would love it! xo
I really hope you grandma likes it!