Colourful Spring Tart with Teriyaki Chicken

If you’re looking for a simple and quick recipe to use this season’s veggies, try this colourful spring tart recipe and add your favourite protein topping such as chicken or fish.

If you make a few tarts, you’ll have enough leftovers for the week and your lunches are sorted!

Here’s my recipe for Colourful Spring Tart with Teriyaki Chicken.

What’s So Healthy About This Recipe?

• Low fat puff pastry is a healthier option than standard puff pastry as the fat contents are lower. Eating healthier is all about making healthier choices and where I can, I will choose the low fat option. 
• Purple Cabbage doesn’t just look good, it’s super good for you! This colourful vegetables is full of anti oxidants and low in carbs and fat. ^[1]https://tools.myfooddata.com/nutrition-facts/169977/wt1/1
• Spinach is a great source of iron. A staple ingredient in my diet. I think that if every women were to add a good amount of spinach to their diet (especially around menstruation) you’d feel so much better. Iron helps with our energy levels and by simply adding it to a smoothie you don’t even really taste it.
• Pumpkin is Highly Nutritious and Particularly Rich in Vitamin A and C, which can help boost your immune system. Its supply of vitamin E, iron and folate may strengthen your immunity as well.Pumpkins’ high vitamin A, lutein and zeaxanthin contents may protect your eyes against sight loss, which becomes more common with age.

How to Make Colourful Spring Tart with Teriyaki Chicken

What you’ll need

• 1 Baking Tray*
• 1 Chopping board for Chicken/Meat
• 1 Chopping board for veggies (keep meat, fish, veg and bread on separate chopping boards)
• 1 Wok Pan (if using raw chicken breast – if you’re using shredded chicken from the deli you won’t need a wok)
• 1 Sheet of Baking Paper
• Preheated oven at 180 degrees C

*Baking tray can be a standard solid baking tray like this “Rectangular heavy duty non-stick sheet oven tray” or if you like making cookies or crispy things like this tart, this “Perforated Rectangular heavy duty non-stick sheet baking tray“ is great!

Ingredients

• 2 sheets low fat puff pastry
• 1 handful of purple cabbage (chopped)
• 2 big handfuls of fresh spinach leaves
• 200 grams cooked chicken breast (or shredded chicken)
• 100 grams butternut pumpkin

Method

Colourful Spring Tart with Teriyaki Chicken Recipe

Colourful Spring Tart with Teriyaki Chicken

Recipe by Caroline BakkerCourse: Healthy Snack Ideas, RECIPESDifficulty: Easy

Servings

4

servings

Prep time

15

minutes

Cooking time

30

minutes

This colourful and yummy recipe makes a perfect light dinner and if you’re lucky you’ll even have leftovers for tomorrow’s lunch.

Ingredients

• 2 sheets low fat puff pastry

• 1 handful of purple cabbage (chopped)

• 2 big handfuls of spinach leaves

• 200 grams cooked chicken breast (or shredded chicken)
  

• 100 grams butternut pumpkin
  

Directions

• Prepare the base
• Preheat oven to 180 degrees C and line baking tray with baking paper.
• Place 1 sheet of low fat puff pastry on baking tray.
• Slice remaining sheet of pastry into 4 and line these up on the corners of the sheet on the tray.
• Fold edges over to make them stand up.
• Bake the base on 180 degrees C for approx. 10 mins till golden brown.
• Prepare the tart with toppings
• Marinate chicken in your home made teriyaki sauce and pan fry till golden brown. Chop into thin slices. Set aside.
• Dice pumpkin into cubes and cook in boiling water till almost soft (make sure pumpkin is still firm and doesn’t fall apart).
• Prep spinach (cook in shallow water till done) and squeeze water out with your hands to remove as much liquid as possible.
  
• If needed, you can flatten the cooked pastry base with a fork. Then top with cooked spinach leaves and distribute evenly.
  
• Sprinkle thinly sliced cabbage over the tart.
• Now top the tart with a few pieces of diced cooked pumpkin.
• Top with sliced cooked chicken.
• You can reheat the entire tart for a few minutes in the oven, or you can eat it right away!

Notes

• If you like you can top this recipe with fresh herbs such as parsley or coriander.
• If you like you can top with a dressing such as sweet chilli sauce, or with light sour cream.