Creamy Caramelized Onion and Babaganoush Tart
Servings
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup pine nuts
- 1/4 cup tapioca flour or 2 tablespoons potato starch
- 1 3/4 cups almond flour**
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 2 tablespoons cold margarine or coconut oil
- 1 egg
- 2-4 tablespoons. olive oil
- 3 medium onions thinly sliced
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- 1/2 cup Sabra Babaganoush one 8 oz. container
- 1 teaspoon plus more to taste kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon plus more to taste freshly ground black pepper
- 3 tablespoons pomegranate molasses*
- 1-2 sprigs thyme leaves removed plus more for garnish
- 1/4 cup pitted kalamata olives chopped
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 2 eggs plus 1 yolk
- 1/4 cup coconut milk or almond milk
- 1 onion
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- Cooking Spray
Instructions
- Tart:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Process the pine nuts and tapioca flour in a food processor until you have fine flour. Add the almond flour, salt and margarine or coconut oil and pulse to combine. With the motor running add the egg through the shoot and process until a dough starts to form.
- Gather the dough with your hands and place it in the center of a lightly greased 9-inch tart pan pressing it out evenly to the edges and up the rim of the tart pan using your fingers and the palm of your hand. Prick the dough all over with the tins of a fork and refrigerate to firm for at least 20 to 30 minutes or place in the freezer for 10 minutes before baking.
- Bake for 15 to 18 minutes until lightly golden and set.
- Remove from oven and cool on wire rack while making the filling. Keep the oven on to bake the filling.
- Filling:
- Heat the oil in a large saucepan over a medium-low flame.
- Add the onions in to the pan and caramelize them for 35-45 minutes until they become a deep caramel color. Stir every few minutes to ensure they do not burn. (Do not do this over a high flame. It will burn the onions.)
- During the last ten minutes of caramelizing add the garlic and allow it to soften and brown. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Remove the onions from the heat.
- Mix together with the Sabra Babganoush, 1 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. pepper, pomegranate molasses, olives, thyme, lemon zest, eggs and “milk”.
- Pour the onion mixture over the baked tart shell and spread so that the filling is even.
- Add the onion topping, if using, in a pretty circle or in your preferred design on the surface of the tart.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes at 350 degrees F or until the filling no longer jiggles.
- Cool for 10-15 minutes before removing from the tart shell. Sprinkle with fresh thyme leaves and salt and pepper, if desired. Serve warm.
- Topping:
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
- Slice the onion in half but do not slice the ends so that the layers stay together. Then, slice the onion very thinly into semi circles.
- Lay the onions on a cookie sheet, spray with cooking spray and then sprinkle with the brown sugar
- Bake for 15 minutes or until the onion slices start to brown.
- Remove from the oven and allow the onions to cool before topping the tart. Handle with care as they are very delicate.
- *To make your own pomegranate molasses, boil 4 cups pomegranate juice, 1/2 cup sugar, and 1 tbsp. lemon juice until the sugar is dissolved. Then, simmer for about an hour or until the mixture is reduced to 1 cup. The remaining molasses can be stored in the fridge for 6 months.
- **If you cannot find Kosher for Passover almond flour, pulse the necessary amount of blanched almonds in a food processor until it becomes a powder/flour.
I can’t do eggplant or dairy..Trying to think of what other spread I could use instead of baba ghanoush. Any ideas? I might try it with an herbed pareve cream cheese sauce..I’ll experiment 🙂