Smoked Mackerel Tarts

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 210 g frozen ready-rolled puff pastry sheets, thawed
• 150 g french soft spreadable cheese with garlic and herbs
• 280 g peppered smoked mackerel
• 8 baby plum tomatoes, halved
• 4 spring onions, trimmed and sliced
• 1 tablespoon flat leaf parsley, chopped

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 180°c.
• 2 line two backing trays, with baking paper.
• 3 cut the pastry into quarters and trim the edges. mark a rim all around each piece by cutting halfway through the pastry, about 1 cm in from the edge.
• 4 bake for 10 minutes.
• 5 on each piece, press the centre down, leaving the raised rim.
• 6 carefully spread the centres with half the cheese.
• 7 skin and flake the mackerel and divide between the pastry cases with the tomatoes and spring onions.
• 8 put the rest of the cheese on top (in splodges).
• 9 bake for 10 minutes.
• 10 serve warm or cold, sprinkled with parsley if desired.