Onion-Gorgonzola tartlets: help me replicate

I’ve bought premade hors d’oeuvres a few times that consist of puff pastry, gorgonzola cheese, and caramelized onions. Sold under the label Simply Enjoy, I believe.

I’d love to replicate them, but am not sure of proportions. Anyone have a recipe for something like that? I’ve got the puff pastry (store bought), and the onions, and the gorgonzola is easy to obtain…

The closest I’ve found in searching is a pizza-like thing with a much lower proportion of cheese and onion to pastry, and those all also use Brie.

It could be as easy as just puff pastry with the carmelized onions and gorgonzola. Assuming this is what you’re looking for, I can’t really tell if there’s a sauce in there or not.

If there is a sauce, it sounds enough like the technique for my bacon-onion tarts that I’ll offer this up.

This makes enough filling for 1 9" tart or 4 mini-tarts (I think my mini-tart pans are maybe 2" across?) That’s not a lot, you might want to double it if you want to make a bunch.

I make tart shells using pâte brisée, but you’ll skip that and use the puff pastry. I’d use a mini-cupcake pan and press squares of puff pastry into each cup.

For the filling, first caramelize the onions. If you haven’t done that before, it’s just a matter of slicing them very thin, then cooking them over low heat with some butter & salt until they get brown and sweet. It can take a while, depending on how many you’re cooking. If you need better directions, let me know, or you can google it (it’s a pretty basic technique)

Then, I’d make a quick cream base like so:

1.5 t. flour
1.5 t. butter
~3/4 cup of heavy cream
1 egg, beaten

Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium-low heat, then whisk in the flour. Continue to whisk for a couple minutes, allowing the flour to lose that raw-flour taste but not burn (if it gets slightly tan that’s fine)

Add the cream in small bits, whisking continuously, until it’s all in there and thickened a bit. Take it off the heat, and stir in the beaten egg.

Add in the Gorgonzola until it tastes sufficiently Gorgonzola-ish to you.

Stir in the caramelized onions. Salt and pepper to taste.

Spoon into the puff pastry shells and cook according to the puff pastry directions until the pastry is done.

Thanks! I hadn’t been on the boards much lately, so I didn’t read this until just now. And yes, that’s the exact product.

I’ve definitely caramelized onions before - it’s actually crazy easy to do it in the oven - slice 'em up (dice if the usage requires), add butter or olive oil, and roast them low and slow. The house will smell DIVINE.

Interestingly, when you mentioned pate brisee (sorry for lack of accents there, my browser doesn’t like 'em) my first thought was “but that’s a sweet pastry” - then I checked and the recipes I saw called for very little sugar, and that would go well with the sweet onion filling.

For pâte brisée, I just leave the sugar out for savory dishes.

For accents, I just find a website that has the word with accents and cut & paste. Hell if I know how to do them either. :smiley:

Now I want a bacon-onion tart.