Potato-and-Radicchio Tart
Updated June 8, 2023

- Total Time
- 3 hours; 30 minutes active
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Ingredients
- ½cup ricotta
- 4slices provolone, ripped into pieces
- Zest of 1 lemon
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 12ounces fingerling or new potatoes, boiled and cooled
- 2tablespoons olive oil
- 1shallot, finely sliced
- 1egg, lightly beaten
- Parmigiano-Reggiano, grated, to garnish
- 8 to 10leaves radicchio
- Splash of white-wine vinegar
Preparation
- Step 1
After the dough has rested in the fridge for at least an hour, and up to 12 hours, preheat the oven to 350. Roll dough into a 12-inch circle, dusting with flour underneath and on top, as needed. Use a knife to trim the rough outer edge of the circle, cutting away as little dough as possible. Place the disc on a sheet of parchment paper, on a half-sheet pan. Use a small palette knife or spoon to spread the ricotta across the dough almost all the way to the edge, and scatter the provolone and lemon zest on top. Season lightly with salt and pepper. (If the dough is warm, return it to the fridge while you prepare the potatoes.)
- Step 2
Use your hands to roughly break apart the potatoes, so they’re about halved, with jagged edges. In a large bowl, mix the potato pieces with olive oil, shallots, salt and pepper. Scatter the potato-shallot mixture all over the dough, and set the bowl aside (you’ll use it to dress the radicchio). Fold an inch at the edge of the dough inward, pressing it over the potato mixture, working your way around the whole tart. Brush the dough with egg wash, and bake for 45 minutes, or until the edge as well as the bottom are light brown and crisp.
- Step 3
Grip the parchment paper, and slide the tart onto a cooling rack, then cover it with grated Parmigiano. When the tart is no longer hot to the touch, dress radicchio leaves using the same bowl you used for the potatoes, still slick with olive oil, adding another drizzle if needed and a splash of white-wine vinegar so the leaves are just barely coated and glistening. Arrange the leaves on top of the cooled tart, season lightly with salt and serve.
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I suppose making a tart with the leftovers is a decent idea but if you don't eat the whole tart you have more leftovers. If you just dump the leftovers into the perpetual soup on the back of the stove it's just a never-ending adventure in flavor that is never a real leftover. And it's a heck of a lot easier.
1) mashed potatoes and cauliflower over caramelized onion; then after baking cover with parsley, lemon zest and thin pieces of ham. 2) Leeks over mascarpone and lemon zest. 3) potatoes, ricotta and preserved lemon.
Why use a dough with sugar? You can make a cream cheese puff pastry dough... there's even a ricotta puff dough recipe... then flavor the dough with dill and granulated garlic... with the right ingredients on top, you won't have leftovers ;-)
I make this frequently I love it so much. The only change I make is to finely slice the radicchio. Last time I made it, I baked the radicchio on the tart the entire time, to great ease and delight. Leftovers are delicious with a fried egg on top.
Just made this for a lunch meeting. Everyone loved it. I made some choices, used 8 slices of provolone due to the fact that I had 8. Added chili flakes and white pepper to the onion potato mix. I learned something special about radicchio. I added some to the potato mix to be baked and saved leaves for the top. Again, because I had them. Radicchio doesn’t look very pretty baked. However, I did like the extra radicchio within the dish as well as on top of the dish. I pulled the gallete out after baking and added the radicchio and parm and it sat on the cooling rack for about 1/2 hour before serving. Radicchio wilted perfectly. Keeper of a recipe. Thank you!
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