
Hey folks!
I hope you celebrated a lovely joyful Christmas with your family, friends & loved one’s! I want to give you this festive easy to make appetizer that always is a great hit wherever I present these tasty beauties! π Yum yum yumm,…Excellent with a good glass of Prosecco brut, Cava brut or real Champagne Brut! π
Recipe: For about 20 pieces
Ingredients:
one roll of puff-pastry with margarine ( or butter if you like )
1/2 small pot of 190 gr green pesto
about 150 gr of de-fatted thin ham slices, cut into 2, rind removed
about 150 gr of half-hard cheese, cut into slices, rind removed
Method:
1. Take your puff pastry out of the package & place it on a Silpat or cookie sheet. Roll it out nicely. Now, with a palet knife, smear your green pesto all over the puff pastry, evenly divided, but leave 0,5 cm free, at the sides. See picture below:

2. Now, place ham slices in 1 layer all over the green pesto, like this & leaving 0.5 cm from the edges free:
3. Finally, place the cheese slices, all in 1 layer, over the top of the ham slices, leaving 0.5 cm from the edges free.
4. Β Now, carefully with your hands, you can roll up the stuffed roll. Do not break the dough & do not make holes!!!
5. When tightly rolled up & you have checked that there are no holes, close the edges. Carefully package the roll into cling-film. Place onto a large plate & place into the fridge, to let the flavors mingle, up to 1 night. Mostly, I leave it in the fridge for 3 to 6 hours. So, when you have a party, you prepare them in the morning & make them in the oven a few hours later!
6. When you are ready, to make the appetizers, preheat your oven to 180Β°C ( 350 F ) for 10 minutes. Take the packaged roll out of the fridge, remove cling film & place onto a large chopping board. With a sharp knife, cut the roll into slices, each about 1 finger thick! I ended up with 20 slices, the sides included!
7. Take a non-stick baking sheet like Silpat & place in onto an oven rack. Place your rolls cut-sized down on the baking sheet, but leave 1.5 to 2 cm between each piece to prevent sticking to each other & than you won’t end up with perfect appetizers! They will puff up when baking in the oven! Place in the center of the oven & bake for about 25 minutes. When ready, your house will smell amazing & the puff pastry pieces are nicely brown, puffed up & look very inviting, like picture above! π Take them out of the oven & leave them on the Silpat for about 10 minutes! After that, carefully remove them with a palet life & place them on wire racks to cool down a bit & serve them slightly warm with a good glass of Prosecco, Cava or Champagne brut! Most of the time, I served them slightly warm! π Enjoy! xxx
Even the next day, they are very delicious! π MMM!Β β₯Β Stay Tuned & subscribe by email! Join 1,800 email subscribers now!!! It is free!!!! Click the link here below to subscribe!!! Get my free E-book: Healthy Vegan christmas too!Β
When all the ingredients are so good, the combination must be wonderful! Thanks for the recipe!
Enjoy, Kerry! ππ
I love the combination of flavours! These appetizers look amazingly delicious, Sophie.
Thanks so much, dear Angie! Xx
Merry Christmas Sophie! I look forward to your delish recipes in 2015.
I hope you had a fabulous Christmas feast, dear Jim!
Thanks so much for the positive wishes! Xxx
My dear friend, wishing you all the best for a wonderful Christmas.
Thanks, Afra & I hope you celebrated Christmas well! x
This looks like a perfect start to New Years Eve! I think I even have dome puff pastry in the freezer.
Ooh yes! xxx Enjoy, dear Eva! xxx
oh yum! Perfect, especially on that Christmas napkin π
I thought so too, dear Liz! xxx I hope you had a great tasty Christmas feast! x
I hope you’ve had a wonderful time darling Sophie xxx
Ooit hes & you too, I hope! Xx π π πππππππππ
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Mmmm, delicious. I make a scroll similar to this. Instead of the pesto I use a jar of salsa. You need to use it sparingly though or it all oozes out.
I know! π
Hi Sophie!
I see you’re still up to mixing up lots of creative goodness, Sophie:) It was so nice to “see” your comment, Thank you. I hope you had a Merry Christmas and thank you for sharing these yummy sounding appetizers. Cheers for a Happy New Year!!!
Yes, I lost your blog URL & now, I have found it again!
I am so happy to re-connect! π xxx
Thanks, Louise & a happy, fun, healthy 2015 to you & your loved one’s with many culinary creations & new foods to try out! xxx
what a great idea Sophie π
Yeahh! Happy 2015 to you, dear Tandy! x
looks delicious !! π
Thanks, Andy! Enjoy! xxx
We made your delicious easy to make appetizers & loved it with our Champagne! They are very tasty eaten cold, the next day! Very yum yum too! So thanks again & A happy 2015 to you & your loved one’s! x
yeahh! Happy to hear that, my friends! xxx
Hey Sophie!
I made these just now & they are superb, really creative & yum yum too! xxx
My family & friends all loved them, including myself too, of course! xxx π
Of course, dear Johan! xxx
A perfect appetizer to enjoy with a glass of Champagne on New Years eve. Have a happy one, Sophie.
The same to you, dear Karen! xxx
oh gosh the pesto sounds incredible in this!
OOOh yes, sweety! Xxx
I made these tasty appetizers last night on New Year’s Eve & everyone loved them! They all asked me for the tasty recipe,…Ooh yes! Xx
I am happy to hear that, ….I also served them again yesterday evening! Succes it was too! Xx
happy new year
happy 2015 to,you & your lovely family, dear Rebecca! Xxx