Asparagus Puff Pastry Snacks
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 1 sheet frozen puff pastry, semi-thawed
- 78.78 ml cream cheese, at room temperature
- 14.79 ml fresh dill (or 1/2 tablespoon fresh dill and 1/2 tablespoon fresh chives) or 14.79 ml fresh chives, finely chopped (or 1/2 tablespoon fresh dill and 1/2 tablespoon fresh chives)
- 2 garlic cloves, finely minced
- 4.92 ml orange zest (optional) or 4.92 ml lemon zest (optional)
- 4.92 ml orange juice (optional) or 4.92 ml lemon juice (optional)
- 7.39 7.39 ml canned salmon, thoroughly-drained (optional) or 1 slice ham, finely chopped (optional)
- 425 g asparagus, green spears thoroughly-drained
- 29.58 ml parmesan cheese, grated
directions
- Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- Divide the pastry sheet in half and cut each half into 4 equal strips.
- In a medium sized bowl, combine the cream cheese, the dill or chives, garlic, (optional) orange or lemon zest, (optional) orange or lemon juice, and (optional) crab, salmon or ham until they are well combined. If your cheese mixture becomes too thin (aha, sounds like you added too much juice!) add a one of the optional meats: crab, salmon or ham. Or, if you want to keep the dish vegetarian, add some more dill or chives.
- Place the 8 strips of pastry onto a greased baking tray and spread them with the cream cheese mixture.
- Arrange 2 - 3 thoroughly-drained Asparagus Green Spears on each strip of pastry and sprinkle with parmesan cheese.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 200°C for 15-18 minutes.
- TIPS: If you love feta, you may well want to use feta instead of cream cheese. The original recipe also suggested adding finely chopped cooked bacon to the cream cheese. If you're not adding orange or lemon, you may well like to add bacon to the cream cheese.
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