Couscous and quinoa tartes

Quinoa Base

I recently had the chance to go to the Frankfurt Book Fair during a day which wasn't open to the main public. It was very nice to browse around. It felt a bit like a gigantic book store just without till at the end. During my visit there I developed my own little strategy to get a book or two or three or... for free (hey people gave them to me!). Three of them are cooking books. But not the common ones! One is all about veggie burgers (Thanks Peter!), another one about vegan food. But more about them another time when I'll post something from those books. Today I am writing about a French book "C'est pas de la tarte" (written by a lady who lives in Montréal(!!)) and it's all about tartes. Yeah those lovely round dishes that we French love so much! Mostly tasty, really easy to make and great if you wish to make a left over dinner. But mostly it's all about the filling of the tarte and not so much about the dough itself. However this lady dedicated the whole book on the base of the tartes. I recently made a quinoa based tarte. The filling was smoked tofu, cream and onions. It was one of those sunday evenings where nothing is left in the fridge besides weird stuff such as smoked tofu, tahini and quinoa. I'd never guessed I would find a recipe which would match those ingredients that well together!

Couscous base

Since the first result was already pretty satisfying I tried last weekend another tarte, this time with a couscous base. The filling was meant to be done with plain tofu and broccoli. Again I only had smoked tofu and not enough broccoli so I added a bit more zucchini with it. I had to blend the tofu and it was meant to be sort of smooth, the smoked one however war fairly dry. So I put a bit of cream on top just to have it a little bit more moist. Next time I'll try it with more softer tofu. It is definitely a very  unusual taste but again it was a great success.

Next time I'll try a sweet tarte with a müsli base or so.