Puff Pastry Parmesan Cheese Straws

Generally the simplest appetizers are those that find yourself being the largest hit at a vacation gathering.  These four-ingredient Puff Pastry Parmesan Cheese Straws aren’t any exception:  crispy and flaky, savory and scrumptious, they’re the proper addition to any vacation buffet!

Puff pastry consists of many skinny layers of dough and butter.  As soon as it is available in contact with the new oven, the butter within the pastry puff creates steam and that steam makes these layers puff up and get good and crispy.  The pairing of crispy dough and grated sharp cheese is a match made in heaven.

Moreover having fun with these Puff Pastry Parmesan Cheese Straws as a snack, these straightforward appetizers can be served with a creamy soup or damaged up and tossed right into a salad.  When you like a little bit warmth, add some cayenne pepper together with the cheese for an additional kick.

Find out how to benefit from the puff pastry Parmesan cheese straws

These are good to get pleasure from with a glass of chilled wine or with an aperitivo earlier than your meal.  In case you are entertaining, you possibly can serve these puff pastry straws as an alternative of crackers as a part of a easy charcuterie board and subsequent to your favourite cheeses, olives, nuts, and different nibbles!

Substances for the Puff Pastry Parmesan Cheese Straws

In case you have a field of puff pastry within the freezer, then you’re all set to make this recipe the subsequent day.  All you have to do is keep in mind to defrost the pastry in a single day!

• Puff pastry:  use a very good high quality, butter puff pastry, because it makes all of the distinction.  I used Fillo Manufacturing facility Puff Pastry for this recipe
• Egg:  blended with some water to make a light-weight egg wash, to assist the cheese adhere to the dough
• Cheese: Parmesan cheese (which is aged and naturally dry), or, Pecorino Romano (additionally, a low-moisture cheese)
• Recent Herb:  I like some finely minced recent rosemary, however recent thyme can be nice as nicely
• Non-compulsory Toppings:  white and black sesame seeds and coarse sea salt, or, any sea salt mix

What makes these Puff Pastry Parmesan Cheese Straws really easy to make

• Handful of Substances:  these straightforward cheese straws have solely 4 components: puff pastry, cheese, egg and rosemary
• Have enjoyable with the form:  you can also make them brief or lengthy, straight or twisted, skinny & delicate, or, barely thicker
• Puff Pastry:  you possibly can’t beat the comfort of store-bought puff pastry. It turns out to be useful for simple appetizers and fast desserts
• Select your add-ons:  A favourite addition is 1/4 tsp. of cayenne pepper.  For a milder model, add a little bit candy paprika.
• Prep them forward of time:  you possibly can simply type the straws and retailer them within the fridge for a few hours, till you’re able to bake them

Find out how to make them in 4 straightforward steps

1. Roll out the puff pastry, brush the highest with egg wash and sprinkle half the pastry with grated parmesan cheese and recent rosemary

2. Elevate the opposite half of the pastry over the primary half, brush the highest once more with the egg wash and sprinkle with the sesame seeds

3.  Minimize the dough vertically into 1/4″ strips and, holding each ends, twist in the wrong way.  Place on lined baking sheets and chill 

4.  Bake for 12 minutes, take away from the oven, and permit them to chill earlier than serving

WORKING WITH PUFF PASTRY – USEFUL TIPS

• Preserve your puff pastry very chilly:  the thawed puff pastry is able to use when pliable sufficient to work with it. Don’t let it come to room temperature
• Use a highly regarded oven:  preheat the oven to 400°F.   Puff pastry is not going to puff correctly at a decrease temperature
• Roll it out gently:  when rolling out the dough, begin from the center and don’t press an excessive amount of on the dough so you don’t compress it
• Chill once more:  as soon as the straws are shaped, return to the fridge to sit back the puff pastry earlier than baking

Find out how to retailer and how one can make them forward of time

When you make the cheese straws, you possibly can retailer at room temperature in an air-tight container for a few days, then within the freezer for as much as a month.  They may get a little bit softer, however a couple of minutes in a sizzling oven will crisp them up once more.  You may as well type the straws, freeze them after which bake them with out thawing, including a pair extra minutes to their cooking time.

This recipe is in collaboration with Fillo Manufacturing facility. You’ll find natural puff pastry and filo dough at Entire Meals, Recent Market and several other different native shops.  I really like the standard of the Fillo Manufacturing facility merchandise and I at all times be certain to stash a few containers within the freezer!

Puff Pastry Parmesan Cheese Straws

 

A tasty appetizer with store-bought puff pastry and parmesan cheese. Excellent with a glass of chilled wine and an important addition to any charcuterie board!

Writer: Marilena Leavitt

Recipe sort: Appetizer

Serves: 20

Substances

• ½ field frozen puff pastry, defrosted in a single day within the fridge (I used Fillo Manufacturing facility puff pastry)
• ½ cup Parmesan cheese, grated
• 1 giant egg, calmly overwhelmed
• 1 tsp. recent rosemary, minced
• — sesame seeds (white and black) for topping15

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Line two giant baking sheets with parchment paper and put aside.
2. Take away the puff pastry from the fridge, the place it has been thawing in a single day. Unfold the primary sheet gently and place the lengthy aspect of it in entrance of you on a calmly floured floor. (Return the second sheet of puff pastry to the field and refrigerate or freeze once more). Evenly mud the highest of the pastry with some flour.
3. Ranging from the middle, gently roll out the puff pastry right into a tough 12″x16″ rectangle.
4. In a small bowl, beat the egg with a one TBSP. of water to make an egg wash. Utilizing a pastry brush, unfold a skinny layer of the egg wash over the puff pastry. Sprinkle half of the pastry with grated Parmesan cheese and the recent rosemary. Elevate the opposite half of the pastry over the primary half and gently press the dough down with a rolling pin very gently to surround utterly the cheese. Gently elevate the dough and stretch it fastidiously in direction of it is proper and left sides.
5. Brush the highest floor once more with the egg wash and sprinkle with the sesame seeds.
6. Utilizing an extended ruler and a pointy chef’s knife (or a pizza cutter), minimize the dough vertically (with out dragging the knife), into lengthy ¼” strips.
7. Elevate every strip up and place it on the ready sheet. Maintain every finish of the strip and twist it into the wrong way. Gently press the top of every strip down into the baking sheet, so it retains its form whereas baking. Proceed with the remainder of the strips, twisting them and inserting them on the baking sheets.
8. At this level, the puff pastry has most likely turn into hotter, pop it within the fridge for quarter-hour to sit back earlier than baking. This may permit them to puff properly and hold their form whereas baking.
9. Bake for 12 -14 minutes, till calmly browned and puffed.
10. Cool on a wire rack utterly earlier than serving.

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