Recipes
Appetizer
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Lunch
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Snacks
Melting Leek & Beemster Goat Cheese Pastries
Characteristics
Appetizer, Easy, Oven dish, light lunch
Ingredients (for 4 persons)
- 4.5 oz Beemster Goat cheese , sliced
- 13 oz ready-rolled puff pastry
- 1 egg , beaten
- 2 leeks, cleaned and sliced
- Butter
- 4 tbsp heavy cream
Materials
Preparation
Sauté the leeks with a knob of butter until tender. Cool slightly, season well and stir in the cream and half the egg.
Heat the oven to 390°F/gas 6/fan 350°F. Cut the pastry into 4 squares. Cut a diagonal slit about 0.2 inches into each corner, then fold over each edge to make a narrow border.
Divide the leek mix between the pastries and top with crumbled Beemster goat cheese. Glaze the edges of the pastry with the rest of the egg. Bake for 25 minutes until golden and crisp.