Cheese, tomato and bacon pastries
When you want a bit of a treat for brunch, then how about you make yourself one of thse lovely pastries. Use some dry cured smoked back bacon and a rich cheddar and your taste buds will be awakened.
A standard pack of puff pastry is perfect to make six. If you don’t eat them all, they keep well for a day or two and you can have them cold or reheat them.
Cooking surfaces
BBQ Temperature
Ingredients
- 1 pack pre-rolled puff pastry (not the all butter type)
- 6 rashers of dry cured back bacon (not supermarket bacon that’s full of water – it’s cheap because you’re paying for water, not meat)
- Cheddar cheese, grated
- Tomatoes, slow roasted or tinned
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1 Egg, beaten
Vegetarian alternative
- Swap the bacon for some chestnut mushrooms, sliced
Equipment
- Baking parchment
Method
- Setup your Egg for baking with the plate setter (ConvEGGtor) feet up, the stainless steel grid on top and a baking stone on top of that. Your Egg should be at a stable 220°C. Try not to let it go past this temp as the baking stone will be too hot.
- Take your puff pastry out of the fridge 20 mins before you want to use it and allow it to warm up before you unroll it.
- Once warm enough to unroll without cracking the pastry, use a knife to portion it into six squares.
- Add a rasher of bacon diagonally across each square. If you’re making the vegetarian version, position mushrooms slices across the diagonal.
- Add 3 or 4 sundried tomatoes onto the bacon or some drained tinned tomatoes sliced.
- Grate over cheese.
- Grind over some black pepper.
- Fold over one corner of the pastry, over the middle of the bacon. Apply a dab of water or tomato juice to this corner.
- Now fold over the opposite corner, overlapping the pastry from the other side where you have wet it.
- Egg wash all of your pastries and place onto a circular piece of baking parchment, the size of your baking stone.
- Place into the Egg and cook for about 20 minutes until they are golden brown.
- Remove and allow to cool on a cooling rack.
