Tomato Mozzarella Flan

I am going Italian today. Got this recipe from a book I borrowed from a friend like an year ago, and is still with me !! I hate it when people borrow books from me and never return.  Grrr......

Nothing complicated.  Familiar ingredients and I somehow know how the final product would taste like when they come together in harmony. So here is the recipe..lets do something different today :)

Ingredients:  (Serves 4)

1 cup All-purpose flour
4 tbsp butter chopped (cold butter ..not room temp.)
1 egg
1 tbsp cold water
salt to taste
5 tomatoes
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp rosemary leaves
spring onion or regular onion as required

Now the steps:

Preheat oven to 350 deg.F. Grease a tart pan and keep it ready.

In a food processor, add flour and butter. Pulse for a few seconds until it looks like bread crumbs.

In a bowl, beat the egg with cold water and add slowly to flour mixture. Process till the dough comes together.

Transfer to a floored surface and kneed into a smooth dough. Cover with a plastic wrap and chill for 20 min.

In the meantime,  cut the tomatoes. Arrange it on a baking pan, sprinkle salt and drizzle olive oil on top and bake for 15 min. Remove from the oven and keep it aside.

Increase the oven temperature to 415 deg.F.

Take out the dough from the refrigerator, and roll it into a 9" circle on a floored surface.

Wrap the pastry sheet around the roller and slowly transfer  to a tart pan and trim the edges or fold it in.

Dock the bottom of the pastry sheet with a fork so the crust doesn't puff up while baking. Bake for 15-20 min. until the crust is golden brown. Allow to cool.

Now arrange the baked tomatoes, mozzarella slice and thinly sliced onion on the crust. Top it with rosemary leaves and season with salt. Drizzle 1 tbsp olive oil.

Bake for 10 min. Cool before you slice it. Buon appetito!