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Brian Kennett

Amateur Chef and Boozy Traveling Foodie Extraordinaire

Puff Pastry Savouryโ€™s โ€˜wโ€™ Bacon, Cheese & Asparagus

Puff Pastry Savouryโ€™s โ€˜wโ€™ Bacon, Cheese & Asparagus

Lunch today for Jude Jude and a massive winner according to my Sous Chef who devoured two and a half of these on his lonesome. BOOM!!! Always a good sign for a cook to see his biggest critic wolfing down his creations. And todayโ€™s lunch was a great example of that. Happy Daddy. I took a much-needed break from work and sitting in that very same seat since forever, a quick hop to Cold Storage and back to prep and bake these savoury beauties for the little man, for when he arrived home from school at 1400 and needed a snack-attack.

This little recipe idea popped in my head the other day when I was reading up on some new recipe concepts for ChillaxBBQ. For ChillaxBBQ Iโ€™d be making them about half the size, but with the very same ingredients. Little savoury finger foods for platter serving. Your โ€˜welcome-biteโ€™ if you like. And these were awesome!!!

Puff Pastry Savouryโ€™s โ€˜wโ€™ Bacon, Cheese & Asparagus

Puff Pastry Savoury's 'w' Bacon, Cheese & Asparagus
These are the cheese, bacon and asparagus savour puffs nearly ready for the oven, just missing an egg-wash.
Puff Pastry Savoury's 'w' Bacon, Cheese & Asparagus
And the same for Jude Jude, but minus asparagus, AKA green stuff. His versions were just cheese and bacon, so I added a little more bacon for his.
Puff Pastry Savoury's 'w' Bacon, Cheese & Asparagus
Have a look at those beauties. Bloody brilliant in my reckoning. Beautifully golden brown, puffy pastry, chewy in the middle, hickory-smoked bacon with melted cheese. Holy shit. Belters!!!

Iโ€™ll share here how to make 4 of these little beauties โ€“ the ones with asparagus;

  1. 1 sheet of puff pastry โ€“ cut to quarters and lay on some baking paper in a baking tray;
  2. Leave some space between the pieces for the pastry to puff up;
  3. Sprinkle some mixed grated cheese into the middle one corner to the opposite corner;
  4. Trim some baby asparagus and lay about 6 or so on top of the cheese;
  5. Then lay some streaky bacon on top of the asparagus โ€“ I used hickory-smoked;
  6. Crack an egg and whisk it up for use as your egg wash;
  7. Pull one corner over the filling and egg wash the corner;
  8. Then fold over the opposite corner and โ€˜glueโ€™ it together like the top 2 photos;
  9. Egg wash all over the exposed pastry and in the oven;
  10. I did 15 minutes at 100 degrees to cook the bacon through; and
  11. Then up to 190 degrees and remove when all puffed up and golden brown like the bottom picture.

And that was that. A new concept. A new finger food. A new ChillaxBBQ welcome snack, that I am planning to half in size. These were awesome. Crispy, chewy, savoury, salty, cheesy and andโ€ฆ Goodness me. Some of the nicest savoury pastries ever, and all done in our little oven at home. Puff Pastry Savouryโ€™s โ€˜wโ€™ Bacon, Cheese & Asparagus are belters and so very easy to prep and make as you can see from the 1-11. Jude Jude was dabbing and high-5โ€™ing so I have to assume that they have a massive tick in the box from him. These will be repeated again and again I am certain โ€“ ENJOY!!!

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