British Food Fortnight - Warm Goat's Cheese and Hazelnut Tart

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Warm Goat's Cheese and Hazelnut Tart

Serve with saute ' leeks and a tasty locally grown jacket potato.

Goat's cheese has become extremely popular and we are lucky to have some of the best goat's cheese makers in the West Country. This recipe, by Stephen Ross of the Queensberry Hotel in Bath, captures the essence of the Autumn countryside from our hedgerows and woodlands. Recipe supplied by Taste of the West

Ingredients
Butter for greasing
220g good shortcrust pastry
6 free range eggs and 3 yolks
300ml double cream
150ml milk
220g fresh goat's cheese
salt, pepper and grated nutmeg
50g chopped, toasted hazelnuts

Method
Grease a deep-sided flan dish (25cm).

Roll out pastry very finely and line dish.

Chill thoroughly.

Preheat the oven to 180c, gas mark 4.

Bake pastry case blind for 15 minutes and cool.

Blend remaining ingredients bar the nuts, pour into the part-cooked flan case and bake for 30 minutes.

Check the top which shouldn't be too brown.

Cover with foil if it is.

Continue baking till set.

Sprinkle with the nuts over the top.

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