Name: APPETIZER WITH CHEESE AND VENISON SALAMI
Prep time: 15 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 sheet puff pastry (rectangular); 20 slices venison salami; 3.5 oz spreadable cheese; to taste salt; to taste pepper; to taste extra virgin olive oil; 1 lemon (unwaxed); 1 orange (unwaxed); 1 lime (unwaxed)

Appetizer with cheese and venison salami easy to make and impressive, these puff pastry baskets filled with cheese and salami are also perfect for serving with a tasty aperitif or at a buffet. This recipe was prepared in collaboration with Fondazione UNA – Man, Nature, Environment – a non-governmental and non-profit organization that since 2015 has represented a meeting place between the hunting, environmentalist, agricultural, and scientific-academic worlds. In fact, in an effort to give value to the wild game food chain, Fondazione UNA has launched the “Wild and Good” project, developing a traced supply chain of wild game meat. This occurs through training activities for the processing chain operators, from hunter to restaurateur, ensuring that 100% controlled wild game meat processed according to Italian excellence standards reaches the table. And besides being delicious, wild game meat has less fat compared to other meats, with a high content of Omega-3 fatty acids, proteins, and minerals with iron and zinc. Now let’s see how to prepare this appetizer with cheese and venison salami and if you try it, let me know! Barbara

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Difficulty: Very easy
Cost: Cheap
Preparation time: 15 Minutes
Portions: 6
Cooking methods: Oven
Cuisine: Italian
Seasonality: All seasons

Ingredients for preparing the Appetizer with cheese and venison salami

1 sheet puff pastry (rectangular)
20 slices venison salami
3.5 oz spreadable cheese
to taste salt
to taste pepper
to taste extra virgin olive oil
1 lemon (unwaxed)
1 orange (unwaxed)
1 lime (unwaxed)

How to prepare the Appetizer with cheese and venison salami

Let’s start preparing the Appetizer with cheese and venison salami, unroll the puff pastry and use a cookie cutter with a diameter of about 4 inches to cut out disks,
which you will position in a muffin tin.
Pierce the bottom of the baskets with a fork,
bake them in a preheated static oven at 356°F (180°C) for 20 minutes. If you see that the puff pastry puffs up during baking, don’t worry, open the oven and pierce the puff pastry further with the fork.
In the meantime, while the puff pastry is baking, prepare the filling. Pour the spreadable cheese into a bowl, work it with a fork, add a pinch of salt, pepper, a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, and mix well.
Now add some grated lemon zest.
Add the lime zest,
the orange zest
and mix well to blend all the ingredients.
When the puff pastry baskets are ready, remove them from the oven, place them on the serving plate, and let them cool.
Using two spoons, fill the baskets with the citrus-scented cheese cream.
Take 3 or 4 slices of venison salami and slightly overlap them.
Fold the bottom part
and roll them up.
You will obtain a salami rose,
that you will place in the center of the cheese-filled basket, press the rose lightly so that it slightly penetrates the cheese, in this way the cheese will hold it, and you won’t risk it opening.
If you like, decorate the baskets by adding some oregano leaves, or mint or basil, depending on what you have available, it will add color to the baskets and make them even more beautiful. Serve the Appetizer with cheese and venison salami immediately or store it in the fridge for a few hours.