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The Flexitarian » Recipe » Comté, Banana & Vanilla Tatin [flexitarian]

Comté, Banana & Vanilla Tatin [flexitarian]

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Comté, Banana & Vanilla Tatin [flexitarian] by The Flexitarian

A sweet-savoury dessert – the bananas ooze as they cook and become caramelised, combining beautifully with the melted Comté.

This recipe for created by Laura Pope for Comté Cheese.

Comté, Banana & Vanilla Tatin [flexitarian] by The Flexitarian

Comté, Banana & Vanilla Tatin [flexitarian]

A sweet-savoury dessert – the bananas ooze as they cook and become caramelised, combining beautifully with the melted Comté.
5 from 1 vote
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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 45 minutes mins
Total Time 55 minutes mins
Course Entertaining, Vegan Desserts
Cuisine French
Servings 4 people
Calories 654 kcal

Equipment

ovenproof frying pan

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Ingredients
 
 

  • Plain flour – for dusting
  • 200 g all-butter puff pastry
  • 3 ripe but not black, medium bananas (approximately 300g / 10.5 oz peeled weight)
  • 100 g golden caster sugar
  • 100 ml brandy or Marc du Jura for extra authenticity, if you can get hold of some!
  • 1 vanilla pod – halved lengthways, seeds scraped out
  • 25 g unsalted butter
  • 100 g Comté – sliced very finely (a younger Comté would be best, eg 8 to 12 months)
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Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 200˚C (180˚C fan).
  • Dust a clean surface and a rolling pin with flour and roll out your puff pastry until it’s just over 0.5cm thick (to fit an ovenproof frying pan, about 20 to 25cm in diameter, leaving a little extra around the edge). Put the pastry to one side.
  • Peel bananas, then slice on the diagonal, about 2cm thick.
  • Put the pan on a medium heat and add the sugar, brandy, vanilla seeds and pod. Let the sugar dissolve and cook until the mixture goes foamy and then forms a light caramel. Once the caramel looks and smells delicious (it should be a rich chestnut brown colour at this stage), add the butter, swirl until melted, then add the bananas. Carefully push the bananas down in the pan so they are surrounded by caramel and cook for about 5 minutes or until the bananas start to become caramelised.
  • Remove from the heat, lay the slices of Comté over the bananas and then the pastry on top. Quickly and carefully tuck the pastry down right into the edges – you can use a wooden spoon so you don’t touch the caramel.
  • Bake the tarte tatin for about 30 minutes, or until the pastry is golden, with crispy caramel bubbling up from under the edges. Take it out of the oven and turn out onto a serving plate or board. Put it to one side for a few minutes, so the caramel can cool down, then divide it up and serve with a spoonful of crème fraîche or vanilla ice cream.

Nutrition

Serving: 250gCalories: 654kcalCarbohydrates: 68gProtein: 11gFat: 33gSaturated Fat: 13gPolyunsaturated Fat: 3gMonounsaturated Fat: 14gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 40mgSodium: 282mgPotassium: 374mgFiber: 3gSugar: 36gVitamin A: 464IUVitamin C: 8mgCalcium: 191mgIron: 2mg

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