puff pastry Archives

Tart recipes

Klein karoo springbok wellington with parsnip puree, baby root vegetables and red wine jus

10 minutes

Afternoon tea

Sweet onion marmalade and goats cheese tartlets

15 minutes

Cake recipes

Roast chicken, mushroom and leek pie

30 minutes

Apple recipes

Baked apples, ricotta and chocolate cinnamon dippers

40 minutes

Beetroot recipes

Purple potato chips with tartar sauce, radish-and-carrot juice and golden beetroot tarte tatins

70 minutes

Half-moon teacakes

Serves Makes 6-8

Prep Time 1 1/2 hours

Cooking Time 15 minutes

Ingredients

1 cup pistachio nuts or pine kernels, chopped
1 sachet or tin Chinese red-bean paste (available from supermarkets or specialty food stores)
1 roll Woolworths puff pastry
Icing sugar, to serve

Method

Preheat oven to 200ºC. Mix nuts into bean paste. Roll pastry to 2mm thickness on a floured board. Cut into 6 – 7cm diameter rounds.

Put about 1 dessertspoon of red-bean paste mixture into the centre of half of the rounds. Wet your forefinger with cold water and run it around the mixture on the pastry to act as a ‘‘glue’’. Place the balance of the rounds on top of the filled ones and press around the edge firmly with the tines of a fork.

Place on a baking sheet sprayed with water and bake until golden brown. When cooled, gently break in half to make half moons. Serve piled up and dusted with icing sugar.

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Open goat’s cheese and beetroot tart

Tomato tarte tatin

Twirled puff pastry pears

Klein karoo springbok wellington with parsnip puree, baby root vegetables and red wine jus

Sweet onion marmalade and goats cheese tartlets

Apricot frangipane tart

Roast chicken, mushroom and leek pie

Baked apples, ricotta and chocolate cinnamon dippers

Purple potato chips with tartar sauce, radish-and-carrot juice and golden beetroot tarte tatins

Strawberry jam puff tartlets

Potted asparagus and cheese quiche

Half-moon teacakes

Half-moon teacakes

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