When you’re looking for a quick and easy meal for your little one, pastry can seem intimidating. We feel like, as busy parents, we’re allowed to cheat a little. Pre-rolled puff pastry is surprisingly simple to cook with, and can be used to make some truly delicious meals for you and your little ones.
Check out our five super-easy puff pastry recipes you can have a go at making for your kids:
1. Cheesy spinach puffs
2. Vegetable stuffed triangles
3. Mushroom pouches
4. Puff pizzas
5. Cheese and marmite puff twists
Cheesy Spinach Puffs
Course: Lunch, Dinner
Cuisine: Kids
Difficulty: Easy
Servings
12
puffs
Prep Time
30
Minutes
Ingredients
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120g spinach (cooked)
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80g feta
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1 tbsp garlic granules
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1 sheet ready-rolled puff pastry
- 1 egg
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 200C and grease a muffin tray
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Finely chop the spinach and mix with feta and garlic until fully combined oes for 8 minutes at 200°C
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Unroll your pastry and cut into twelve small squares, then place them in the muffin tray
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Fill each square with about 1tbsp of the cheesy spinach mix
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Lightly pinch the sides of the pastry around the filling, then lightly brush any exposed pastry with egg wash
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Bake at 200C for 15-18 minutes or until golden brown
Vegetable Stuff Triangles
Course: Lunch, Dinner
Cuisine: Kids
Difficulty: Easy
Servings
4
Triangles
Cooking Time
20
minutes
Ingredients
- 1 onion (diced)
- 1 tsp ginger paste
- 1 tsp garlic paste
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1 potato (diced)
- 1 carrot (diced)
- 50g peas
- 1 tbsp ground cumin
- 1 sheet ready-rolled puff pastry
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
Instructions
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Fry the onions in a little bit of oil, then add the ginger and garlic pastes
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Add potatoes and carrots and fry until almost fully cooked, then add peas, cumin
and turmeric
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Fry over a high heat, stirring regularly, until fully cooked and combined, then remove from the heat and set aside
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The previous steps can be prepared in advance. When you're ready to cook, preheat the oven to 200C
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Roll out the pastry and cut into large squares
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Spoon a tablespoon of the vegetable mixture onto each pastry square, forming a
triangle shape on one half of the pastry
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Egg wash the surrounding pastry and fold into a triangle, using the end of a fork to seal the edges
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Bake at 200C for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown
Mushroom Pouches
Course: Lunch, Dinner
Cuisine: Kids
Difficulty: Easy
Servings
6
Mushroom Pouches
Cooking Time
15
minutes
Ingredients
- 1 sheet ready-rolled puff pastry
- 2 onions (chopped)
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1⁄4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp dark brown sugar
- 226g mushrooms (thinly sliced)
- 2 garlic cloves (pressed)
- 1 egg
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200C
- Cook the onions in a little oil over a medium heat until golden, then stir in brownsugar, salt and mushrooms
- Cook together until the mushrooms are caramelized, then stir in the garlic
- Take the mushroom mixture off of the heat and set aside
- Roll out the pastry and cut into 6 large squares, then place the squares into a large, greased muffin tray
- Fill each pastry with the mushroom mixture then fold the pastry over the top, pinch together and brush with egg wash
- Bake at 200C for 18-20 minutes, or until golden brown
Puff Pizzas
Ingredients
- 1 sheet ready-rolled puff pastry
- 8 sliced cherry tomatoes
- 3 basil leaves (chopped)
- 100g mozzarella (diced)
- 50g parmesan
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200C
- Roll out the pastry and cut into 6 large squares
- Grease a baking tray and lay the squares flat
- Sprinkle a mix of mozzarella and parmesan over each square
- Add a few slices of cherry tomatoes and chopped basil leaves to each square
- Brush the edges of the pastry with egg wash, then bake at 200C for 18-20 minutes until golden brown
Cheese and Marmite Puff Twists
Ingredients
- 50g mozzarella
- 1 sheet ready-rolled puff pastry
- 2 tsp Marmite
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200C
- Roll out the puff pastry and cut into two large squares
- On one square of pastry, spread a thin layer of marmite and sprinkle mozzarella cheese on top
- Cover with another square of pastry and slice into six thin strips
- Carefully Twist each strip into a twirl shape and egg wash the pastry
- Bake at 200C for 15 minutes or until golden brown
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