Root vegetable tatin with candied nuts & blue cheese

Name: Root vegetable tatin with candied nuts & blue cheese
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Cuisine: European, Mediterranean, French
Ingredients: 500g block puff pastry; 3 slim carrots about 12-13 cm long, halved lengthways; 3 slim parsnips about 12-13 cm long, halved lengthways plus 1 large parsnip, peeled and grated; 2 tbsp olive oil; 2 heaped tbsp slightly salted butter; 5 banana shallots 3 halved lengthways, 2 thinly sliced; small bunch sage leaves picked and finely chopped; 4 rosemary sprigs leaves picked and finely chopped; 2 garlic cloves finely grated or crushed; 100g caster sugar; 125ml red wine vinegar; 100g blue cheese crumbled (we used Cropwell Bishop); 50g walnuts roughly chopped; 25g caster sugar; 2 tsp butter; 3 rosemary sprigs

Instructions

Prep:25minCook:55min

Make this vegetable tatin with nuts and cheese as a Christmas showstopper. Perfect for a veggie family, it also makes a great Boxing Day buffet centrepiece

Updated at: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:34:56 GMT