MUSHROOM TARTLET

Easy Mushroom Tartlet.  Make small ones for pre-dinner snacks or serve as a starter or vegetarian meal with a light tossed vegetable salad.

YOU NEED
Ready made puff pastry
2 onions - sliced
2 leeks - sliced
olive oil, salt & pepper
20 ml dried thyme
2 punnet mushrooms - sliced
10 ml fresh thyme
one round of feta cheese - crumbled
100 g of cream cheese

Cut even size round or square shapes out of the puff pastry dough.
Place the cold dough in a pre-heated oven of 180 degrees and bake until
crisp, puffy and golden brown.
Fry onions and leeks in the olive oil, salt and pepper until translucent and cooked through.
Add in dried thyme and mushroom and cook over a slow heat until all the water of the
mushrooms has evaporated
Remove from stove and cool.
Add in fresh thyme, feta cheese and cream cheese and mix well.
Scoop spoon ful of the mushroom mixture optop of the ready bake pastry
Topped with more fresh thyme and freshly grounded black pepper  and serve.

TIPS

• This filling keep well for up to two days in the refrigerator.  It can be serve cold or at room temperature.
• For a meatier version - add 250g of bacon with the onions and leeks.
• Use the same filling for a savoury tart of quiche.  Mix three egg yolks, one egg and 100 g grated cheddar with the cream cheese before adding it to the mushroom mixture (u can also add in two cups of chopped spinach) pour in a prepared quiche base and bake until just set.  Sprinkle with more cheese and paprika and bake for 2 more minute. 
• Drizzle a  few drops of black truffle oil over the tartlet before serving it (truffles are a type of mushroom/fungi that grows under the ground and get sniffled out by pigs - originally found in Italy.  It's an extremely expensive product, but the oil - locally available in deli or specialty stores - are a great substitute and a little really goes a long way.  Make sure you buy a bottle that have a few pieces of truffles in it.  - it look like small black pieces of dirt.  To stretch your oil, add one unit of a good quality extra virgin olive oil to one unit truffle oil.