Sunday 16 December 2012

Simple Ricotta and Ham Puff Pastry Swirls

Who wouldn't like to have a quick and simple snack available for visitors!? Maybe those that never get any visitors ...
Since it is so convenient I very often have ready puff pastry available at home. I never tried to make it by myself before, but maybe this would be something for the to do list. Then again it might be a bit at the bottom end of the top 100.
Anyway, now we want to do a quick and simple snack with that conveniently ready puff pastry and a few other things ...



Ingredients:
275 g puff pastry (depends on the size they sell it)
250 g ricotta
100 g ham, cut into small pieces
25 g chopped dried tomatoes (optional)
A hand full of chopped basil
1 egg
Salt and pepper

Method:
Mix all the ingredients apart from the puff pastry, of course, together in a bowl (or if you have any other ideas on how to do it, just go ahead). After all we want to keep it simple.
Then roll out your puff pastry and spread over it the ham and ricotta mix. Then roll it together so you are having a nice ... eh ... roll ...



While you could put this already in the oven, I decided to cut them at this point. I said we are having ricotta and ham puff pastry swirls. Cutting about 2-3 cm swirls will be fine.



At this point they go to the oven at 180°C for 30 minutes.



Now you can go ahead and serve them. For what occasion would you use those simple ricotta and ham puff pastry swirls?

4 comments:

  1. Oh these are perfect for apetizers in this Christmas period!
    Have a nice week

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  2. Hi, can I bake them the day before, or even keep the roll in the fridge till the morning? Do not want them to go soggy! Greetings from South Africa!

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    1. It's no problem, you can eat them cold the next day. Keeping the roll in the fridge till morning shouldn't be a problem either, although it's not too time consuming to put together the roll in the first place.

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