Summer Vegetable Filo Tart

This summer vegetable filo tart is packed with fabulous flavour and super quick and easy to make in less than 15 minutes with just a few seasonal ingredients.

Why you’ll love this recipe

• Everyone loves a quick and easy recipe, especially in summer when the weather is good and you want to get food on the table and enjoy that sunshine.
• This summer vegetable filo tart is packed with healthy veggies plus hummus and eggs so it’s filling but not too heavy on the calorie front.
• My veggie tart looks so pretty so it’s perfect for a party or when you have friends round.

I love my veggies, whether cooked or in a salad, and this summer veggie filo tart is essentially a salad, but encased in a delicate filo pastry case with a lovely creamy hummus base.

You can be as creative as you like with this simple recipe and really make it your own using whatever you have in the fridge or growing in your garden.

Ingredients for this vegetable tart

This is all a matter of choice really, you can use whatever lovely fresh veggies you have to hand to fill your summer vegetable filo tart.

Veggies – I’ve opted for carrots, cucumber, red onion, baby tomatoes, radish, fresh peas and olives.

You will also need a few other ingredients.

Filo pastry – available from almost every supermarket nowadays. This freezes really well so it is always something I have in the freezer.

Cheese – I use a little grated parmesan cheese within my filo layers of this veggie tart to give extra flavour. You can use any of the hard Italian cheeses here.

Hummus – either make your own homemade hummus or buy it in the shops. You can get all sorts of different types of hummus nowadays or you can add flavour to plain hummus.

Eggs – I like to add some protein to my vegetable tart so have added some hard boiled eggs. This is purely optional if you don’t like eggs but it really looks and tastes great.

The complete list of ingredients and full instructions for making this recipe can be found on the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post.

How to make summer vegetable filo tart

This is such a simple recipe with only a tiny bit of cooking. However, you have to prepare the filo pastry tart case so let’s get started with that.

I only used half a pack of filo pastry to make my summer veggie tart so I rewrapped the remainder and popped it into the freezer to use on another recipe another day.

Divide the sheets of filo pastry and keep the ones you are not actually working on under a damp clean tea towel to stop them drying out.

Brush each sheet with melted butter and sprinkle with a little grated parmesan cheese then put the next one on top and repeat the process.

Press your filo sheets into a greased tart tin (I use a 23cm tin with removable base) and pierce all over with a fork to stop the base puffing up and bake for 10 minutes till golden.

Set the tart case aside to cool and remove from the tin.

While the tart case was baking you should have been hard boiling your eggs at 10 minutes. They will cool at the same time as your filo tart case.

Once the tart case has cooled place it onto your serving plate and spread the hummus generously all over the base of the tart.

Preparing your veggies; I like to do my carrots in ribbons so use my potato peeler to make long strips of carrot and then I roll them up when I put them into my tart case. You’ll find that the little rolls will stay together when you gently press then unto the hummus base.

Finely slice the cucumber, onion (I’ve used a red onion for the colour and fabulous flavour) and radishes and place them on the hummus base.

Add halved baby tomatoes, fresh peas and olives and the hard boiled eggs cut into quarters or sliced.

Finish off with a little salt and pepper seasoning and a sprinkling of sesame seeds or a little more of the grated parmesan cheese and enjoy.

Serving suggestions

You can also add a drizzle of pesto (I have lots of great recipes for homemade pesto here) on top of your summer vegetable filo tart for extra flavour.

Or add a drizzle of your favourite balsamic vinegar for an extra hit of flavour.

Want to make your summer veggie tart more of a feast? Then add some smoked salmon, parma ham or cooked prawns. Don’t just chuck them on, place them carefully to keep that nice casual yet arty look.

Add fresh herbs.

How many does this serve?

This vegetable filo tart will serve four people as a light lunch just as it is. Add some extras like smoked salmon, prawns and the like and you will have a more substantial meal.

Looking for more delicious and easy summery recipes? Then check these out before you go;

French style celeraic remoulade

Watermelon and feta salad

Carrot Rapee (French grated carrot salad)

Strawberry and salmon salad

And for even more sunshine inspiration, check my Summer Recipes section and you’ll have lots of choice.

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