The long, slow cooking of red onions and balsamic vinegar gives a lovely sweet, concentrated caramel consistency. These are then spooned into crisp cheese pastry cases and topped with melted goats' cheese...
It's hard to believe that such a quick recipe could produce such a delicious result, but it does!
These make delicious party snacks and go well with chutney recipes. They can be frozen before cooking and then glazed and cooked from frozen for about 30-35 minutes.
This is exquisite and pappardelle which are wide flat ribbons work well but any dried pasta can be used. If you want to make this a true vegetarian dish you can buy a vegetarian 'Parmesan style' cheese...