Ingredients
- Tapenade:
- 1 package frozen puff pastry, 2 sheets thawed
- 1/2 cup green or black olive tapenade
- 5-6 medium tomatoes cut into 1/4" slices
- 12 ounces fresh mozzarella cheese, thinly sliced
- Coarse kosher salt
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Balsamic vinegar
- 18 fresh basil leaves
- 6 green or black olives, pitted, sliced
- 1/2 pound good black olives, such as kalamata,
- pitted and diced
- 3 tablespoons capers, drained
- 8 anchovy fillets
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/2 cup good olive oil
- 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh thyme leaves
Preparation
Step 1
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper. Working with 1 pastry sheet at a time, roll out on floured surface to 13" square. Using 6" diameter plate, cut out 4 rounds from 1 sheet and 2 rounds from the second sheet. Transfer rounds to each baking sheet. Pierce each round with fork. Top rounds with another sheet of parchment. Place another baking sheet atop parchment on each sheet.
Place 1 baking sheet stack on each rack in oven and bake 10 minutes. Rotate baking sheets and bake until rounds are golden, about 10 minutes longer. Using oven mitts, remove top baking sheets and top sheets of parchment. Continue baking pastries until deep golden brown, about 3 minutes longer. Transfer sheets to rack to cool.
Can be made 1 day ahead. Store in airtight container at room temperature.
Increase oven temperature to 450 degrees. Spread generous tapenade over each pastry round, leaving 1/2" border around edges. Alternate 4 tomato slices with 4 mozzarella slices atop each pastry in pinwheel pattern. Bake just until cheese begins to melt, about 2 minutes. Sprinkle with sea salt and pepper, then drizzle with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Arrange a few basil leaves and olive slices atop each tartlet and Serve immediately.
Tapenade:
Combine the olives, capers, anchovies and garlic in a food processor fitted with a steel blade, and pulse 3 times. Add the olive oil, lemon juice, mustard, thyme and parsley and process until chunky.