Puff pastry, bacon, basil, cream cheese, and scallions
Ingredients:
Pastry Dough (thawed)
Cream cheese + fresh scallions
Basil leaves
Cooked bacon
Egg wash
1 egg
pinch of salt
1 Tablespoon water
Directions:
Egg wash: make 30 minutes before use.
Beat egg, add salt and water, incorporate.
Set aside in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Pastries:
Preheat oven to 400 F.
Roll thawed pastry out slightly.
Cut dough into desired shapes. In this case that is two long rectangles. Cut a rectangular hole out of one of the rectangles.
Dock (cut) interior of whole rectangular piece, score edges, brush with egg wash around the edges.
Place the edging from the second pastry rectangle on the whole piece of pastry, egg wash entire piece (including the part cut from the second triangle), allow to chill in refrigerator for about 10 minutes.
Bake until golden.
Mix sliced scallions and cream cheese, spread into the interior of the pastry.
Lay bacon and basil leaves on top of cream cheese.
Add small rectangle to top.
Eat right away.
Enjoy!
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10 comments for this entry ↓
1 Alicat // Jan 2, 2006 at 11:48 am
that is so gorgeous!! Yum yum yum. ;o)
2 nika // Jan 2, 2006 at 11:54 am
Alicat: thanks so much!
3 Culinarily Obsessed // Jan 2, 2006 at 7:26 pm
yummy, that looks fantastic! It looks so fresh & pretty too.
4 nika // Jan 2, 2006 at 7:52 pm
Culinarily Obsessed: thanks for visiting!
5 Meena // Jan 3, 2006 at 10:58 am
That looks amazing Nika!! I love your blog and have added you to my favourites list. do check out mine as well… http://www.hookedonheat.blogspot.com
Happy New Year!
6 nika // Jan 3, 2006 at 3:52 pm
Meena: thanks! I adore Indian food (especially idlis, sambar, masala dosa, oohh..yumm) and love you blog too!
Will be adding your like to the roll.
Thanks for stopping by!
7 Michele // Jan 4, 2006 at 12:17 am
Beautiful photos as always… I’m drooling
8 nika // Jan 4, 2006 at 10:04 am
Michele:
Thanks Ma’am!
9 Sweetnicks // Jan 4, 2006 at 10:48 pm
Just stumbled on your blog and am hooked by the food porn. This looks delicious. Added you to my list of blogs.
10 nika // Jan 5, 2006 at 12:23 pm
sweetnicks: hey thanks for stopping by!
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