The savory fans with mortadella and cheese are simple and tasty puff pastry snacks, perfect to accompany a hearty aperitif or to add to cold cuts and cured meats on the appetizer table. To prepare the savory fans with mortadella and cheese, you will only need 3 ingredients: 1 roll of rectangular puff pastry, 3.5 oz of mortadella, and 5 oz of stracchino or another spreadable cheese of your choice: ricotta, robiola, Philadelphia, goat cheese…
After filling the puff pastry with cheese and mortadella, simply roll it up from both sides and let it rest in the freezer for 30 minutes: this will allow it to firm up, making it easier to slice into fans without the filling spilling out. A few minutes in the oven, and the savory fans with mortadella and cheese are ready to enjoy!
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- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Very Economical
- Rest time: 30 Minutes
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 15 snacks
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Every season
- Energy 136.29 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 7.21 (g) of which sugars 0.12 (g)
- Proteins 4.08 (g)
- Fat 10.11 (g) of which saturated 1.48 (g)of which unsaturated 5.73 (g)
- Fibers 0.23 (g)
- Sodium 121.86 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 22 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 for about 15 Savory Puff Pastry Fans
If you are celiac, besides using gluten-free puff pastry, make sure that the mortadella also has the “gluten-free” label.
- 1 roll puff pastry (rectangular)
- 3.5 oz mortadella
- 5 oz stracchino (or another spreadable cheese)
Tools
- 1 Baking Sheet
- Parchment Paper
- 1 Knife
How to Prepare Puff Pastry Fans with Mortadella and Cheese
To prepare the savory fans with mortadella and cheese, start by unrolling the puff pastry, which must be rectangular. If you have round puff pastry, you can solve this by cutting a square inside the circle and repositioning the cut parts on one side to form a rectangle: a little pressure is enough, and the puff pastry will stick.
Spread it with stracchino or your preferred creamy cheese (1). Lay the mortadella slices on top (2), slightly overlapping them. Now start rolling the puff pastry onto itself, starting from one of the short sides (3).
Roll up to the middle of the pastry length (4). Roll up the other side of the pastry as well (5) until it meets the other roll (6). At this point, wrap everything in parchment paper and let it firm up in the freezer for about 30 minutes.
After the resting time, the filled puff pastry will have the right consistency to be easily sliced without spilling the filling: after removing the parchment paper, place it on the work surface and cut it into slices about 0.6 inches thick (7).
This will yield 15 puff pastry fans. Arrange them not too close together on a parchment-lined baking sheet. If they appear a bit flattened after cutting, give them a more rounded shape with your hands (8).
Bake the savory fans with mortadella and cheese in a preheated oven at 392°F (static) for 15-20 minutes, until they are puffed and golden (9). Remove them from the oven and let them cool slightly before removing them from the baking sheet.
Storage
Savory fans with mortadella and cheese will stay crisp for a couple of days at room temperature.
Tips and Variations
There are many ways to fill your savory puff pastry fans: instead of stracchino, you can use robiola, squacquerone, ricotta, Philadelphia, goat cheese, taleggio, gorgonzola… Instead of mortadella, you can use speck, cooked ham, salami, roast turkey, rolled bacon, bacon…
