Puff pastry treats Recipe

Puff pastry treats Recipe

  • 2 sheets ready-rolled puff pastry
  • 100g/3½oz pesto
  • 20 cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 40 fine asparagus spears
  • 125g/4oz parmesan cheese, or similar vegetarian hard cheese, coarsely grated
  • virgin olive oil, to sprinkle
  • rock salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  1. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6 and grease two baking sheets.
  2. Roll out each piece of pastry on a flat surface and cut each one into 5cm/2in square pieces – ending up with about 40 squares. Place the squares on two large, greased baking sheets about 2.5cm/1in apart to allow for the pastry to puff up.
  3. Place ½ tsp pesto in the middle of each square and place half a cherry tomato on top.
  4. Top with a little more pesto and lay across an asparagus spear.
  5. Sprinkle a little grated parmesan and a little olive oil over each one.
  6. Season well and bake in the oven for 5-8 minutes or until the pastry is golden and the cheese has melted.