Ready-made puff pastry and sun-dried tomato pesto pair with fresh mozzarella cheese for a quick & easy midweek supper or after-school snack ready in under 20 minutes. In collaboration with Sacla.
The kids go back to school tomorrow! Not that I’m counting down the hours or anything, but it’s tomorrow!! It’s been a rather fantastic (long) summer – this year the kids have had 7.5 weeks off from school, and even they are itching to get back to their friends and old routines.
Heading back to school means all the after school clubs start up again, and it’s back to the hectic schedule of getting everyone to where they need to be. No more leisurely mornings and evenings for us!
Sometimes, quick and easy mid-week supper recipes are needed; recipes like this sun-dried tomato pesto and mozzarella tarts recipe made with ready-made puff pastry and store-cupboard pesto.
INGREDIENTS NEEDED FOR THIS SUN-DRIED TOMATO PESTO & MOZZARELLA TART RECIPE
- ready-made puff pastry – life’s just too short to make this by hand. Look out for it in the chilled food section of your local supermarket.
- sun-dried tomato pesto – I use Sacla
- fresh mozzarella cheese – the proper stuff, not the hard mozzarella
- fresh basil leaves, to serve
- assorted toppings, if desired – optional, but we used black olives and diced chorizo, finishing off with a slice of tomato
HOW TO MAKE SUN-DRIED TOMATO PESTO & MOZZARELLA TARTS
Step 1: Preheat a baking tray in the oven and roll out your ready made puff pastry to 1/4 inch thick.
Step 2: Cut the puff pastry into 12 pieces.
Step 3: With a sharp knife, cut a line 1 cm away from the pastry edges, taking care not to cut through. Brush the edges with milk.
Step 4: Spoon a little sun-dried tomato pesto onto the centre of each pastry.
Step 5: top with your desired toppings.
Step 6: Bake in the centre of the oven for 12 minutes, or until golden. Serve with fresh basil leaves.
SUN-DRIED TOMATO PESTO & MOZZARELLA TARTS RECIPE VIDEO
The key ingredients in this recipe are ready-made sun-dried tomato pesto and ready-made puff pastry. You could go through all the bother of making your own pesto and puff pastry, but honestly, with the kids back at school and so much to do during the day – sometimes we want something quick and easy to make.
You could even use roasted aubergine pesto or roasted vegetable pesto for something a bit different. Jazz it up with your favourite toppings – we’ve added sliced black olives, chopped chorizo and a slice of yellow or red cherry tomatoes.
Italians love tomatoes so much that they affectionately call them ‘red gold’. The juicy ones used in this pesto have been dried for around seven days under the warm Italian sun to intensify their flavour. Did you know it takes 20 kg of fresh, ripe tomatoes to produce 1 kg of sun-dried tomatoes? The sun-dried tomatoes are then blended with fragrant Italian basil, Grana Padano cheese and pine nuts to make this delicious, versatile pesto that will lift your homemade pizza, fish fillets and Mediterranean vegetable tarts with the rich flavours and sunshine of Italy.
Look out for the Sacla range in your local supermarket, and don’t forget to enter our giveaway below!
Sun-dried Tomato Pesto & Mozzarella Tarts Recipe
Ingredients
- 425 grams ready made puff pastry
- 100 grams mozzarella cheese
- 12 tsp sun-dried tomato pesto
- milk to brush pastry edges
- fresh basil leaves to garnish
- assorted toppings optional (if desired)
Instructions
- Preheat a baking tray in the centre of your oven at 220 C/ 200 C fan/ gas mark 7.
- Roll out your ready made puff pastry to a thickness of 1/4 inch and cut into 12 squares.
- Arrange the squares, evenly spaced, on a sheet of baking paper or a silicone baking mat.
- Using a sharp knife, carefully score a line 1 cm around the edge of each pastry square, taking care not to cut all the way through. Brush the edges with a little milk.
- Spoon 1 teaspoonful of sun-dried tomato pesto onto the entre of each tart, top with your desired toppings and finish off with some mozzarella cheese.
- Bake for 12 minutes or so on the pre-heated baking tray until the pastry is golden.
- Garnish with fresh basil leaves and serve.
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Alexandra says
This looks incredible! I love all of the ingredients, and this is perfect when you’re entertaining! Thank you for sharing such a mouth-watering recipe!
xx Alex
stephanie says
i use bazil pesto
Nancy Bradford says
I love green pesto spread on gluten free seeded toast with avocado x
natalie Crossan says
We love it just put into pasta – delicious and simple 🙂
Adrian Bold says
I love tomato pesto on a lot of things, but mainly pasta dishes and spaghetti.
Simone Griffin says
I love red pesto and it’s so easy and yummy just stirred through pasta with chicken x
Dawn Samples says
I usually use the green pesto in pasta x
Amy Jo McLellan says
I always use sacla and it’s got to be green!
Kim Neville says
Green pesto with chicken, mushroom and pasta
Jacqueline Mcloughlin says
Red pesto sired into orzo pasta with cherry tomatoes, my kids love it in their sandwich boxes
Tracy Gladman says
I like red pesto just stirred into pasta. Delicious.
Kirsteen Mackay says
I love red pesto with spaghetti, cherry tomatoes and some fresh basil. So easy and delicious.
Ali gill says
I love red pesto! So easy and fresh and makes a really tasty pasta dish
Cassandra D says
Fresh basil pesto used on pasta.
Melissa Lee says
I love a basil pesto, and it works perfectly across the top of lasagne
Helen Jones says
I add original pesto to mayonnaise and use in a potato salad
paula cheadle says
we love green pesto on either chicken or salmon
Jeanette Leighton says
Simple pasta with pesto and parmesan I love it could eat buckets
Sarah Parker says
basil 🙂
Angela Macdonald says
I love basil pesto just in a bowl with breadsticks and chorizo
frances hopkins says
I love chilli pesto with pasta
Jenny Jones says
Just basil pesto which I use quite often with pasta and chicken
Alison says
I like basil pesto in a salad
Sheri Darby says
Green Pesto on salmon fillets, wrapped in puff pastry is delicious
Laura Pritchard says
I like classic green Pesto from Tesco and I use it with pasta, chicken & peas
Miss Tracy Hanson says
We love the CLASSIC BASIL PESTO and FILLET STEAK WITH A PESTO PINE NUT CRUST AND BALSAMIC ONIONS is our favourite way to use it at the moment.
Romana Richards says
I love basil pesto and stir it through fresh linguine, sprikle some parmesan on top and stir through some left over roast veg. It makes a quick snack for lunch.
sue leake says
sun dried tomato and I have used it as a base to a tomato and mozzarella flan
jo liddement says
I like to add a spoonful of basil pesto into my homemade vegetable pilaf rice dish. It really adds a tasty kick.
Diana says
I like to add my tomato pesto to our lasagne 🙂 x
Derek Wilson says
I usually prefer green pesto to red, but for this recipe, the red wins hands down!
Catherine Bullas says
Sacla green pesto mixed with pasta, cheese, lardons and pine nuts
Alison Bayne says
I find pesto livens up loads of dishes. I really like some sundried tomatoes, chopped olives and red pesto stirred in to spaghetti.
Iris says
Green basil pesto spaghetti or baked chicken with mozzarella and tomato
Fiona jk42 says
This year we had a bumper crop of basil so we have made lots of pesto and have frozen some in ice cube tray, and put the rest in jars. I plan to use it over the winter with pasta.
Cara Lavery says
Red pepper pesto. I love it on pasta especially penne pasta
Steph Bent says
Gotta be Salcla Green Pesto just mixed simply with pasta, you can’t get better than that!
Carole Nott says
I use a tomato based pesto – lovely with pasta and cheese dish
Victoria Prince says
I like green pesto mixed with any kind of pasta!
Sam Parkes says
Green pesto with Gnocchi. Also use it with chicken creme fraiche and tomato’s
emily fraser says
I love red pesto with spaghetti 🙂
Annie L says
I love Sacla Pesto, it’s the best one.
James Travis says
Chilli pesto on pasta for me
Rich Tyler says
I love red pesto with fresh pasta
Katy Hacket says
Chilli pesto on pasta, not imaginative, but delicious all the same!
Maxine G says
basil classic pesto is lovely stirred through a rice salad with the tastes of summer, tomatoes and asparagus
Jo F says
I like a basil pesto tart with goats cheese and a touch of balsamic dressing
Maureen M says
tomato pesto with pasta
Azra Dediic says
Chilli pesto on chicken breast stuffed with mozerella, tomato and basil!
Laura Banks says
tomato pesto stirred into my pasta
Richard Eldred Hawes says
I love the Sun-dried Tomato Pesto just stirred into freshly cooked pasta
Julie Edwards says
I have never been lucky enough to try pesto yet. My family aren’t very adventurous when it comes to food.
Kay Broomfield says
I love green pesto and put it with parpadelle pasta and feta cubes and black olives.
Bruce says
Old school green originl
Sarah Fielding says
Tomato pesto with some yummy pasta and lots of veg is my favourite!
Ruth Harwood says
Green pesto with a nice pasata sauce xx
Sheena Batey says
Green pesto over a variety of pasta
Elizabeth Gaskell says
Tomato pesto with fresh noodles and chopped stir fry veg. Really quick and easy nutritional tea when I get in from work goes down a treat every time.
Michelle Smith says
Red pesto
Vanessa Cox says
Green pesto with mozzarella balls and spinach served with pappardelle!
pete c says
mine is green pesto, enjoyed with a baked potato
Judith Allen says
The tomatoey one sturred into penne or fusilli, served with homemade coleslaw and green salad.
Maggie Norvell says
Tomato pesto for a classic taste – but it’s hard to call. They’re all delicious !
iain maciver says
green pesto with chicken and pasta
Susan B says
Just ordinary basil pesto which I mainly use with plain pasta or jacket potatoes.
Kim M says
Just found one with lemon – love it with pasta or put a layer on the bottom of a homemade roasted vegetable quiche x
Emma C says
Basil pesto in pasta with some veggies
cheryl hadfield says
I love chicken and pesto pasta
Laura Chapman says
I like any pesto! I grow my own basil and usually make my own though. I stir it into pasta, have it with bread, on toast, bake vegetables in the oven smothered in pesto and have it on pizzas to give additional flavour.
Helen Tovell says
Sundried tomato pesto in a lovely light pasta dish
Ali Thorpe says
I love most pestos although I usually reach for green basil on pasta with mixed mushrooms, and I like to add extra lemon.
Kate Knight says
I love green pesto with chicken and pasta
Chloe Davies says
I love chilli pesto stirred into pasta with a sprinkling of grated mozzarella on top. Simple, yet delicious x
Margaret Gallagher says
Classic pesto on spaghetti
Sarah Morris says
I like to use Fiery Chilli pesto, mixed with chicken, mushrooms, onions and fusilli pasta.
Helen says
I love tomato pesto with pasta and mozzarella – simple and tasty!
Solange says
I love tomato pesto with pasta dishes.
PAULINE HILL says
i love tomato pesto on spaggetti
Charlotte Everett says
I put green pesto in a summer casserole for something a bit different or my husband has red pesto in meat sandwiches
Laura Jeffs says
I love classic pesto, and use it on pasta
Debbie Finnerty says
I make my own pesto pesto and use it to make chicken kievs delish!
Fiona K says
Tomato pesto with pasta dishes
amy bondoc says
i love tomato pesto added to lasagne its so yummy
Suzanne says
I put pesto with tomato, and courgettes.
Tracy Nixon says
I use pesto for a pinenut pasta salad or a chicken pesto pasta dish.