Puff pastry shells a scenic and tasty Christmas appetizer! I love preparing Christmas recipes that are delicious yet simple, like bacon bites or pizza rolls with speck made with ready-made pizza dough.
Add these puff pastry shells to the 3 appetizers to amaze your guests, perfect even for Christmas Eve. You can change the filling, maybe with a shrimp cocktail and a cherry mozzarella, or fill with tuna sauce.
If you are looking for more recipes to make your appetizers, check these out:
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Cheap
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 7
- Cooking methods: Oven, Air frying
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Christmas
- Energy 266.85 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 14.64 (g) of which sugars 0.46 (g)
- Proteins 11.45 (g)
- Fat 17.94 (g) of which saturated 2.22 (g)of which unsaturated 10.60 (g)
- Fibers 0.48 (g)
- Sodium 541.91 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 40 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients
- 1 sheet puff pastry
- 4.23 oz scamorza cheese
- as needed arugula
- 4.23 oz ham
- as needed egg
Tools
- 1 Cookie cutter
How to make puff pastry shells
Roll out the puff pastry on a work surface, then with a 4-inch cookie cutter, cut out circles. You will get about 7 discs.
Fold each disc in half, without pressing too hard on the fold (otherwise, it will stick during baking). Brush the surface of each semi-circle with beaten egg.
With a smooth-bladed knife, make cuts without going too deep. Bake in a preheated static oven at 392°F for 10 minutes, until the surface is golden brown.
When the shells are warm, cut them with a knife as if they were sandwiches, and fill with prosciutto and scamorza cheese. In my version, I used cold cuts and cheese, but you can create many other combinations.
Storage and tips for puff pastry shells
The shells can be stored in the refrigerator, in a closed food container, until the next day. You can fill the shells with a small mozzarella instead of scamorza, or create a vegetarian version with Russian salad.
