Goats Cheese In Pastry

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 170 g premade puff pastry
• 2 (80 g) individual goat cheese
• 2 tablespoons basil pesto
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tablespoon fresh parmesan cheese

Recipe

• 1 pre heat the oven to 200c/gas 6.
• 2 beat the egg yolk in a cup and put to one side.
• 3 roll the pastry until quite thin. you will need to end up with two squares of pastry. each square being about about 16cm square.
• 4 cut each pastry in half and roll lighty on a floured board.
• 5 put one cheese in the middle of each pastry.
• 6 spoon the pesto on the top of each of the cheeses - dividing it equally between the two.
• 7 using a pastry brush dip into the egg and brush around the edge of each pastry square.
• 8 now bring opposite corners of the pastry together in the middle and then bring the opposite corners again together - sealing by pinching together. better explained when you see the picture.
• 9 put the parcles on a baking sheet and brush with the beaten egg.
• 10 now grate the parmesan on top of each parcel.
• 11 bake in a pre heated oven for about 15 - 20 minutes until the pastry is pale golden colour.
• 12 serve with a green salad.