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Stanley Tucci shared a simple three-ingredient onion tart recipe perfect for easy, flavorful cooking.
Tucci’s recipe uses Tropea onions, goat cheese and pastry dough for a sweet and savory appetizer.
Inspired by Instagram, Tucci’s tarts are proof that delicious food doesn’t need to look perfect.
Stanley Tucci has a different idea of what a sick day entails than we do. “I was a little under the weather today. I didn’t do much,” the actor starts off a recent video on his Instagram. “But I did make these little things,” he continues, before showing off his latest culinary creation: upside-down onion tarts.
We shouldn’t be surprised. Whether he’s whipping up anchovy pasta or a mouthwatering frittata, you can expect Tucci to be in the kitchen when he’s not starring in films like the upcoming TheDevil Wears Prada 2. The actor frequently shares his culinary adventures on social media, in his cookbooks and on his various food and travel shows.
“Not your standard sick day, I know, but don’t they say feed a cold, starve a fever,” Tucci writes in the video’s caption.
The three-ingredient appetizer is so easy, the actor could even make it while under the weather. As Tucci explains in the reel, all you need is onion (of course), goat cheese, olive oil and salt. He uses Tropea onion specifically, which he says is “really good and sweet.” In relatable fashion, he says he got the recipe from scrolling Instagram, calling the tartlets “absolutely delicious and delicate.”
While Tucci’s character in TheDevil Wears Prada, the art director of a cutthroat fashion magazine, is one to scrutinize appearances, the actor does things differently. He admits that the tarts aren’t “particularly attractive.” “Who cares?” he says.
While Tucci doesn’t provide detailed instructions for the tarts, you can follow our recipe for Pear & Goat Cheese Upside-Down Puff Pastries as a guide, placing sections of caramelized onions and goat cheese on a baking sheet, covering them with rectangles of puff pastry, brushing the tops with a touch of olive oil (instead of egg wash, as our recipe uses) and baking for 20 minutes at 400°F.
You could also, of course, include ingredients from our original recipe, like Anjou pear and fig jam. Alternatively, you can try our Apple & Brie Upside-Down Tarts, which use Honeycrisp apples, Brie cheese and spicy brown mustard. Each option has a salty cheese, a sweet fruit or veggie and crunchy, buttery puff pastry. Your taste buds will dance with excitement.
If you want to incorporate more onions into your spring cooking, we have a few for you to fall in love with. Here’s what we’ll be adding to our menus this spring—we think Stanley would approve.
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