Yorkshire Wensleydale & Leek Tart

Yorkshire Wensleydale & Leek Tart

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Ingredients

100g Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese, ½ grated & ½ crumbled

1 medium leek, washed, halved length-ways & finely sliced

25g butter                                                                          

2 tablespoons flour

175 ml milk                                                                         

½ teaspoon wholegrain mustard

Freshly ground black pepper        

200g puff pastry                               

 Method

1. Melt butter in saucepan, add leeks and sauté over a medium low heat to soften for about 5 minutes.

2. Add flour and stir and cook for a minute or two, then add milk, mustard and a good grinding of pepper. Stir and cook until sauce thickens and boils. Add Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese and stir for another couple of minutes, remove from heat and put aside.

3. Roll out the pastry on a floured surface, to fit a lightly greased baking tray. Place on tray then ‘knock up’ the edges of the pastry with a knife. Gently score a rectangle about 1 inch from the edge of pastry, then place the sauce within the marked area, smoothing as required. Brush pastry edges with milk.

4. Bake for 20/25 minutes at 220 C, until the pastry is puffed & golden.