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Cheese and Piccolo Tomato Biscuits

  • Time preparation 10 minutes, plus resting
  • cook time 1 hour 40 minutes
  • Serve Serves 24

Piccolo's are our favourite, most flavourful tomato, and they taste delicious in these crumbly parmesan biscuits

Recipe provided by British Piccolos
  • 130g Piccolo cherry tomatoes
  • 1 tbsp chopped thyme
  • 150g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
  • 80g soft butter, in pieces
  • 50g Parmesan cheese, grated
  • 1 tsp thyme leaves
  • 1 medium free-range egg yolk, plus egg white for glazing
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preheat the oven to 120C/100C Fan/Gas ½. Halve the tomatoes and place on a baking tray, cut sides up. Sprinkle with thyme, season with salt and pepper and bake for one and a half hours. Set aside to cool.

Add a pinch of salt to the flour in a bowl. Using your fingers, crumble the pieces of butter into the flour and then stir in the Parmesan cheese and thyme leaves. Add the egg yolk to the mixture.

Bring everything together to make a dough. Tip it out and flatten it into a ball and press down into a disc. Wrap in cling film or beeswax wrap and leave in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Set the oven temperature to 170C/150C Fan/Gas 3.

On a floured surface, roll the dough out to about 4mm thick and cut out 24 stars using an 8cm star cutter. Brush with egg white, push a Piccolo cherry tomato half into each star and bake for 10-12 minutes.

Remove from the oven and leave to cool slightly, before transferring to a wire rack to cool.

Ingredients

  • 130g Piccolo cherry tomatoes
  • 1 tbsp chopped thyme
  • 150g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
  • 80g soft butter, in pieces
  • 50g Parmesan cheese, grated
  • 1 tsp thyme leaves
  • 1 medium free-range egg yolk, plus egg white for glazing
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method

Preheat the oven to 120C/100C Fan/Gas ½. Halve the tomatoes and place on a baking tray, cut sides up. Sprinkle with thyme, season with salt and pepper and bake for one and a half hours. Set aside to cool.

Add a pinch of salt to the flour in a bowl. Using your fingers, crumble the pieces of butter into the flour and then stir in the Parmesan cheese and thyme leaves. Add the egg yolk to the mixture.

Bring everything together to make a dough. Tip it out and flatten it into a ball and press down into a disc. Wrap in cling film or beeswax wrap and leave in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Set the oven temperature to 170C/150C Fan/Gas 3.

On a floured surface, roll the dough out to about 4mm thick and cut out 24 stars using an 8cm star cutter. Brush with egg white, push a Piccolo cherry tomato half into each star and bake for 10-12 minutes.

Remove from the oven and leave to cool slightly, before transferring to a wire rack to cool.

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