Today for lunch I made one of my favourites: Caramelized Red Onion and Mushroom Tart. To be honest most things that I make have some sort of caramelized red onion in them, but this one has to be the nicest. It’s also really easy to make and doesn’t take long at all.
The inspiration for this recipe is from closetcooking.com (probably the most amazing food blog). Here’s my interpretation:
1) Cut 1 (or 2 if you like) red onions in fine cubes
2) Wash and finely slice 1 package of mushrooms
3) Heat up a heaped teaspoon of salted butter and mix in a little bit of olive oil
4) Add the red onions and add a lot of sugar (don’t be stingy: just be honest to yourself, when has sugar ever made anything worse??). If you wish you can also crush in a clove of garlic.
5) When it’s lovely and caramelized, add the mushrooms and let it cook until all the water from the mushrooms has evaporated.
6) Whilst it’s cooking, add as much fresh thyme as you can possibly be bothered to pick from the sticky bits (the more the better, but you don’t have to go mental : ) )
7) When the frying pan looks like it could do with some liquid, add a good sip of sherry.
8) Again, wait until the sherry is evaporated. At this stage you can also add salt and pepper and all sorts of other spices you fancy at the moment (curry, cayenne pepper, more sugar…)
9) Whilst the mushrooms and onions are bubbling away, get 1 package of feta ready. To do this, put the feta in a bowl and crumble it with a fork, then add some honey and freshly ground black pepper and mix.
10) Roll out the puff pastry
11) Spread the mushroom and red onion mix on it
12) Top with the honey-pepper-feta mixture
13) Put it in the oven for however long it takes to bake the pastry and the cheese to become lovely and golden (around 15-20mins).
14) ENJOY 
I’m sorry about the lack of photos… I took some, but they look terrible. If you want to see what it looks like, check out the link to closetcooking!
