These zucchini tartlets with microgreens and goat cheese are a delicious appetizer or a great addition to a brunch menu.
Why You'll Love these Mini Tarts
These delicious zucchini goat cheese tarts are wonderful bites! They make great appetizers or a light lunch. These tartlets are so tasty, the combination of buttery puff pastry with the creamy goat cheese and fresh zucchini is the best.
Ingredients for Zucchini Tarts
Here's what you'll need to make these delicious puff pastry tarts.
- 1 sheet puff pastry, cut into 12 pieces
- 1 egg, beaten
- 4 ounces goat cheese
- 1 medium zucchini, thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- pinch of salt and pepper
- ⅓ cup microgreens
How to Make Zucchini Puff Pastry Tarts
These tarts are easy to make, you just need to make sure to prep the puff pastry!
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Place sheets of parchment paper over two baking trays and lay puff pastry squares on top.
- Using a paring knife, cut ¼ inch borders along the edges of each pastry. Then prick each piece several times with a fork.
- Brush beaten egg across the pastry.
- Cover the interior of each puff square with a layer of cheese crumbles.
- In a mixing bowl, gently toss the zucchini with the olive oil and salt and pepper.
- Add 3 to 4 slices of zucchini on top of the goat cheese.
- Bake tarts for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden and puffed.
- Let cool for 1 to 2 minutes before removing from parchment paper.
- Top with microgreens and serve.
More Puff Pastry Recipes To Enjoy
If you like puff pastry, you'll love these recipes.
- Leek and Onion Puff Pastry Tart - a wonderful, subtle recipe that highlights the complex flavors of the leeks and Camembert cheese.
- Radish Puff Appetizers - these radish appetizer mini puff pastry tarts with goat’s cheese, radishes, and microgreens are delicious, peppery, and delightfully rich recipe.
- Fresh Tomato Puff Pastry Tart - this fresh tomato tart with mustard crème fraîche is a perfect appetizer or light lunch.
- Spinach and Feta Puffs - these spinach puffs pack a salty little feta punch – they make a perfect appetizer!
Tips for Making Zucchini Tarts
The microgreens really complete the tarts, because they give a great peppery kick. If you can't find them, thinly sliced radishes would work perfectly as well.
You can certainly make your own, but I think store-bought, all-butter pastry is just as good - I recommend the Dufour brand. Here's a great article on using store-bought, frozen puff pastry from the Kitchn.
Zucchini Tartlets
These zucchini tartlets with microgreens and goat cheese are a delicious appetizer or a great addition to a brunch menu.
Ingredients
- 1 sheet puff pastry, cut into 12 pieces
- 1 egg, beaten
- 4 ounces goat cheese
- 1 medium zucchini, thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- pinch of salt and pepper
- ⅓ cup microgreens
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Place sheets of parchment paper over two baking trays and lay puff pastry squares on top.
- Using a paring knife, cut ¼ inch borders along the edges of each pastry. Then prick each piece several times with a fork.
- Brush beaten egg across the pastry.
- Cover the interior of each puff square with a layer of cheese crumbles.
- In a mixing bowl, gently toss the zucchini with the olive oil and salt and pepper.
- Add 3 to 4 slices of zucchini on top of the goat cheese.
- Bake tarts for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden and puffed.
- Let cool for 1 to 2 minutes before removing from parchment paper.
- Top with microgreens and serve.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 57Total Fat: 5gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 20mgSodium: 62mgCarbohydrates: 2gFiber: 0gSugar: 0gProtein: 3g
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