Recipe: Savoury puff pastry appetizers

Whenever you have guests over, it’s good to offer an appetizer before a meal, right?

And if you don’t want to overthink it, this is a simple yet very effective solution: savoury appetizers with puff pastry!

This recipe is great because it’s super fast (provided you have puff pastry at home, even a ready-made store-bought puff pastry will do), can save you at the last minute, and it allows you to reuse puff pastry scraps!

As you know, once the puff pastry is rolled out completely once, you cannot make a ball of dough with the scraps and roll them out again: the rise of dough will be compromised since you will have destroyed all the layers.

Nevertheless, for appetizers (or even for a mille-feuille/Napoleon), you can still use the scraps.

So now just go get all the herbs and spices you want!

Savoury puff pastry appetizers

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Ingredients

Appetizers

200g	Puff pastry
	Poppy seeds
	Sesame seeds
	Paprika
	Cumin (and any other spices/herbs you like)
1	Egg

Directions

Roll out the puff pastry (prepared with 6 folds) rotating it of 90° every time, until you obtain a large, 4mm-high rectangle

Cut the dough into any shape you like: for example into small rounds with a cookie cutter...

...or small squares with a knife (this is good especially if you're working with small-sized scraps). In this case you don't need to perform a clear cut: just mark a few lines now so that it will be easy to separate the appetizers once they come out of the oven.

Brush the dough with the beaten egg and add a pinch of poppy seeds, sesame seeds, paprika, cumin seeds (or whatever else you like, in any combination you like) on each portion