Tomato puff pastry (Puff pastry bites with tomatoes)
Crispy fluffy puff pastry and juicy fruity tomato filling – that's what these delicious appetizers are made of. They are ideal as party food, snack and to go. With this recipe you can prepare the puff pastry bites with tomatoes without much effort.
Servings 19 bites
Ingredients
for the dough
- 200 g butter very cold
- 80 ml water ice cold
- 1 egg white cold
- approx. 285 g flour
- 1 tsp vinegar essence (20 % acid) food grade
- 1/3 tsp salt
for the filling
- 500 g tomatoes
- 50 g grated cheese
- 1 onion
- salt to taste
- black pepper to taste
- vegetable oil for frying
for coating
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tbsp milk
to serve
- fresh parsley or fresh basil
Instructions
Preparation of the dough
- Mix egg white with salt in a bowl.
- Mix ice cold water with vinegar essence.
- Add the vinegar water to the egg white and mix briefly.
- Refrigerate the water egg white mixture while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.
- Process flour and cold butter into fine crumbles.
- Pour the water egg white mixture into the butter flour mixture and quickly combine everything into an inhomogeneous dough ball.
- Refrigerate the dough ball, wrapped in an airtight container, for at least 2 hours.
Preparation of the filling
- Peel onion, chop it finely, fry it in vegetable oil until transparent and let it cool.
- Cut tomatoes into rough cubes or small tomatoes into halves, add them to the onion and mix.
- Season the tomato filling with salt and pepper.
Preparation of the tomato puff pastry bites
- Roll out the dough to a thickness of approx. 4 - 5 mm and cut it into approx. 7 cm x 7 cm squares.
- Spread the puff pastry squares on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
- Mix egg yolk with milk and spread it on all sides of each puff pastry square by about 1 cm.
- Spread the tomato filling in the center of each square and sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Bake the tomato puff pastry in a preheated oven at 428 °F (220 °C) for about 15 minutes until lightly golden brown.
- Serve the tomato puff pastry bites with fresh parsley or fresh basil.
Notes
- Use only cold ingredients for the dough. You can freeze butter in advance.
- You can cut cold butter into pieces and mix it with flour in a mixer to make crumbles. Or chop butter into flour with a sharp knife. You can also roll butter in flour and grate it with a kitchen grater.
- If your dough is too dry, add some cold water. If it is mushy, add more flour.
- Do not knead the dough. Just combine all the ingredients into an inhomogeneous ball of dough.
- Do not leave the tomato puff pastry bites unattended in the oven for too long, so that they do not burn.
- The given baking time may vary. Depending on your oven, you may also need to adjust the baking temperature.
- Note the detailed tips and tricks for making the tomato puff pastry at the top of the post.