BITES OF BASIL PUFF PASTRY

BITES OF BASIL  PUFF PASTRY

(This recipe BY Nuxia) 

Excellent as an appetizer 

INGREDIENTS
 500 g puff pastry

160 g mozzarella cheese

50 g pine nuts 

basil 

garlic 

salt

egg yolk for brushing

butter for plaque

preparation
Clean a big handful of basil leaves that you will pass the food processor along withthe mozzarella into chunks, pine nuts, a pinch of salt and half a clove of garlic.Gather the mixture in a bowl and divide into 24 equal parts. Grease a baking tray.Roll out the puff pastry into 3 mm thick, pennellatela cold water, then line up the 24portions of the compound at a distance of 5 cm from each other; Cover them with the remaining free pasta, which reverses the above. Good press around eachmound, then cut with a fluted pastry cutter to the edge of 5 cm in diameter. Place the 24 "bites" on the plate already buttered, with the egg yolk beaten with pennellatelilittle cold water and bake in oven at 250 degrees C for about 15 '. Arrange the "bite"on a warm platter, then serve.

Recipe of 2012/01/30