Stanley Tucci Is ‘Obsessed’ With This Ina Garten Recipe

In the world of Hollywood, it’s pretty much assumed that everyone knows everyone. And, if that’s the case, how could any celebrity get starstruck when they’re meeting another A-lister? Obviously, after years of watching Jennifer Lawrence fan-girl at red carpet events and Adele fawn over Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” album in her own Grammy speech, we know celebs get just as choked up over meeting one another as we do.

Stanley Tucci himself has admitted that he can be speechless when meeting his famous peers. He wrote that he was “too starstruck to form proper sentences” around actor Cillian Murphy when he met him at the French premiere of “Oppenheimer,” in his new memoir “What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts)”. And, he once told Allrecipes that he experienced a bit of a “fan girl” moment when he appeared on Ina Garten’s cooking show, "Be My Guest with Ina Garten".

Stanley Tucci's Favorite Ina Garten Recipe

Tucci and his sister-in-law Emily Blunt have both appeared on Garten’s show “because she’s one of [their] food idols,” Tucci writes in his book. When Tucci was on the show, he and Garten made martinis and oysters Rockefeller—while Blunt made the Barefoot Contessa her family-favorite turkey bolognese. However, the famous “The Devil Wears Prada” duo share a love for one Garten recipe in particular.

“Ina Garten...has a recipe for a short-crust pastry tart with leeks, goat cheese, and fresh tomatoes that Emily made a couple of years ago and I have since become obsessed with,” he writes in “What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts).”

Garten’s tomato tart makes the perfect savory lunch—especially during prime tomato season in the summer. However, since Tucci says he loves “savory tarts and pies” because paired “with a green salad and a glass of wine, a good tart is a meal for all seasons,” he opted for a different riff on Garten’s leek and tomato tart for his late-fall meal.

How to Make Stanley Tucci's 4-Ingredient Savory Tart

The simple dish has just four ingredients and is one Tucci couldn’t get “out of [his] mind for days,” he wrote in his memoir. It’s his take on the French dish, pissaladière, which is a puff pastry topped with leeks and onions sautéed in butter and black olives.

Naturally, Tucci doesn’t provide a full recipe in his book, but here’s the gist.

“I sautéed two onions and three leeks in butter and oil, spread them onto puff pastry, dotted the whole thing with black olives, and baked it for thirty minutes,” he writes.

It’s not the only time Tucci has made the four-ingredient tart—he shared a video of himself eating a similar version on Instagram earlier this year. We developed a pretty simple recipe for the tart, which requires about 45 minutes of caramelizing the onions and 20 to 25 minutes of baking in a 400-degree F oven.

We promise the tart is as good as Tucci says it is because we couldn't get it out of our minds for days, either. Whether paired with wine and a salad or served as a party appetizer, the leek and onion tart is up there with the best of the best in Garten's tomato and goat cheese version.

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