puff pastry.. what can i make?

CCP

You could make some pasties - sweet or savoury, depending on what you fancy / what you've got. Or some tartlets of some kind - top squares or circles of pastry with whatever you fancy, leaving a border round the edge of the pastry, then bake until golden.

Or my personal favourite - cheese pinwheels - top pastry with grated and cheese and a pinch of dried herbs, roll up like a sausage roll and cut widthways into slices (so you've got a pinwheel-effect). Bake in the oven until golden and oozing cheese. They're lovely with soup, if you can prevent yourself eating them as soon as they're cool enough (or maybe that's just me! ).

It all depends what you fancy, I think.

Sorry, got distracted mid-post and zombiecazz beat me to it. There's some interesting ideas there, so thanks very much - I've got half a packet of puff pastry in the freezer that needs using for something.

LegalBlonde

i like the christmas tree ones I will have to get some suitably festive shaped cookie cutters for my next batch!! To give out as gifts along with my attempt at the best mince pie recipe on here x

nuttybabe

I just bought some puff pastry to do cheese puffs. you roll the pastry out. Cut into smallish squares. Mix cream cheese with cheese and broken up bacon and an egg I think. Put a spoonful of mixture onto square and fold into triangle. press sides down to seal. sprinkle cheese on top and bake. I think!!!! Dont know where I saw recipe and forgot to write it down at the time!!

or bacon and cheese puffs. Big square with cheese and cooked bacon down middle then fold opposite 2 corners in and sprinkle with cheese. This is nice with baked beans in as well. They used to sell them in mountstevens years ago!! Delish!!!!! I am going to have to make some now!!!!!! :P

Pink.

Hi legal

You can use it in either sweet or savoury recipes. My favourite use for leftover puff pastry is sausage rolls or sometimes savoury pastry wheels. Both will freeze well.

This earlier thread has lots of ideas too:

puff pastry.. what can i make?

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

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zenmaster

This is just about the best recipe ever!

I've made it a couple of times in the past month or so and both times it was gone in about 10 minutes.

I didn't use 2 packs of pastry, just one, and folded it over like a sausage roll (which it is really). I also used Worcester sauce instead of HP.

LegalBlonde

With my ONE block of puff pastry I have made the following (some still cooking)

1 Fish Pie with tesco value white fish, frozen spinach, new potatoes that were on the cheap, and butter/garlic/mixed herbs etc.

2 6 buns, with Tesco frozen Summer Fruits inside mashed up with some sugar

3 With the left over puff pastry which I was just about going to chuck in the bin I have made a little pie with a bar of Tesco value chocolate in the middle - am not too sure about that one!

Pretty proud of myself, as all the ingredients are the cheapest available and I have made meals for 2 days and desserts!

poppy-glos

this thread has sent me down memory lane... going to have to go and get some soon, my old favourites (not made in the last 6 years!) are

make a basic white sauce with 1oz butter,1oz flour and about a 1/3rd of a pint of milk, salt and pepper, mix in either
1. chopped cooked chicken and chopped dried apricots
2. mixed frozen (cube veg) and drained tuna
3. tuna and lemon juice

then either, bake the pastry flat with a weight (another baking tin?) over most of the middle of the pasty, until cooked, then spon on the hot topping above (this makes the middle crisp and change of texture from the edge which is flaky,

or make a plait, where you put the pastry in front of you with long edges at the sides. imagine splitting the area into 3 columns, put the filling in the middle column, then cut each of the side edges to creat the plait, to begin about an inch thick horazontally on the two outside columns, take turns folding each side over to look like a plait, tidy the ends and tuck in where you can to minimise the filling spilling. Eggwash and bake.

happy cooking x

welsh_mummy

Hi

Newbie to this, so apologize in advance if I have posted this question on the wrong board....

Bought ready made pastry today for the 1st time with view to making pies etc, but was looking for some other ideas that I can make with it.

Cheers

Welsh mummy

tanith

Tarts big and small, quiche, Beef Wellington, Turnovers, pasties, sausage rolls, cheese straws, vol au vents, the list is pretty endless...

carolinosourus

What sort is it? Is it short-crust or puff?