Puff Pastry Savoury’s ‘w’ 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 today’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 I’d be making them about half the size, but with the very same ingredients. Little savoury finger foods for platter serving. Your ‘welcome-bite’ if you like. And these were awesome!!!
Puff Pastry Savoury’s ‘w’ Bacon, Cheese & Asparagus
I’ll share here how to make 4 of these little beauties – the ones with asparagus;
- 1 sheet of puff pastry – cut to quarters and lay on some baking paper in a baking tray;
- Leave some space between the pieces for the pastry to puff up;
- Sprinkle some mixed grated cheese into the middle one corner to the opposite corner;
- Trim some baby asparagus and lay about 6 or so on top of the cheese;
- Then lay some streaky bacon on top of the asparagus – I used hickory-smoked;
- Crack an egg and whisk it up for use as your egg wash;
- Pull one corner over the filling and egg wash the corner;
- Then fold over the opposite corner and ‘glue’ it together like the top 2 photos;
- Egg wash all over the exposed pastry and in the oven;
- I did 15 minutes at 100 degrees to cook the bacon through; and
- Then up to 190 degrees and remove when all puffed up and golden brown like the bottom picture.
