Appetizer of Pumpkin and Bacon Roses.

A delicious appetizer that is quick and easy to make, it will create a great impression on your table.
Besides serving it on a plate, you can place it on a bread plate, and your guests will not only enjoy it but also see your special days’ table beautifully decorated.
You just need to have a roll of ready-made puff pastry, some pumpkin, and bacon or ham, and you’re all set.
Now let’s have fun in the kitchen.

Ingredients

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10.5 oz pumpkin
2 cloves garlic
2 tbsps extra virgin olive oil
2 tbsps grated Parmesan cheese
to taste salt
1 puff pastry (or rectangular whole wheat puff pastry)
1.75 oz bacon (diced or ham)
to taste roast herbs
to taste pepper
to taste salt
1 egg yolk
2 tbsps milk

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Tools

What we need to make

1 Frying pan
1 Immersion blender
1 Knife
1 Scissors
1 Baking tray
1 Parchment paper

Steps

Let’s go to the kitchen

Peel the pumpkin, remove the seeds, and cut it into cubes.
In a frying pan, pour the olive oil, add the large pieces of garlic so you can easily remove them later, and let it flavor for a few minutes,
Add the pumpkin and salt to the pan, cover with a lid, lower the heat, and let it cook until the pumpkin softens.
Once done, blend the mixture with Parmesan cheese, pepper, and roast herbs.
Spread the mixture until it cools down; if you want to speed up the process, put it in the fridge.
After the time has passed, take everything out of the fridge, including the roll of puff pastry.
Set aside 6 teaspoons of pumpkin cream for the decoration of the roses.
Carefully spread the puff pastry on a work surface, and with a knife make 5 cuts as shown in the photo, obtaining 6 strips
Spread the pumpkin mixture on each strip.
Fold each strip in half over itself.
With light pressure, close the ends of each strip.
and the base as shown in the photo.
With scissors, make small cuts 1 cm apart without going all the way down.
now that we have cut them all,
We need to roll them up on themselves, applying light pressure at the base of the rose with each turn.
Here’s the first rose,
now let’s make the others
Place the parchment paper on a baking tray and preheat the static oven to 350°F, and as soon as it’s hot,
transfer the pumpkin roses to the baking tray and in a small bowl beat the egg yolk with the milk.
Brush all the pumpkin roses with it.
In the center of each rose, place a teaspoon of pumpkin cream that we had set aside, and a small cube of bacon.
Bake in the oven at mid-height for about 18-20 minutes, depending on the oven.
The Appetizer of Pumpkin and Bacon Roses is ready