How to Cook Tasty Ham and cheese puff pastry

Ham and cheese puff pastry. Brush the border with the egg wash. Brush the border with the egg wash. Place the second sheet on top of the filled pastry, lining up the edges.

It is a great way to use up leftover ham and it tastes like a gourmet treat! This breakfast, lunch or dinner treat is a delicious buttery and flaky puff pastry enveloping a mixture of hot ham, melty swiss cheese, and fresh spinach. Roll out one puff pastry sheet onto a greased baking sheet. You can cook Ham and cheese puff pastry using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Ham and cheese puff pastry

1. It's of whole grain mustard.
2. You need of Apricot preserves.
3. You need of sheet of puff pastry.
4. It's of Brown sugar.
5. It's of egg.
6. It's of White cheddar cheese shredded.
7. Prepare of ham.

You don't even need a recipe for this - just watch the VIDEO! (Don't worry, I've written out the recipe too!) Top the pastry with an even layer of ham and cheese. Leave one inch of space between the filling and the pastry edge along the entire perimeter. Mix the egg and water together with a fork to create the egg wash. Brush the inside pastry edges with egg wash.

Ham and cheese puff pastry step by step

1. Pre heat oven to 425.
2. Thaw out one sheet of puff pastry.
3. As puff pastry is thawing mix the apricot preserves with whole grain mustard in a bowl.
4. Once puff pastry is thawed sprinkle flour on your cutting board to keep from sticking and sprinkle some on the sheet of puff pastry and with rolling pin roll out the puff pastry to get rid of the creases in the sheet.
5. Next spread the mixture of mustard and preserve on the puff pastry then on 1/2 of the puff pastry add 1 pound of the slice ham and then the one pound of cheese.
6. Then fold the sheet over the ingredients like making a call one and seal it with your figures or a fork.
7. Once sealed place on a baking sheet and make vents on top like you would a pie to let the steam out then crack the egg and beat it and add a teaspoon of water to make a egg wash and brush all over the puff pastry.
8. Place into the oven and bake till golden brown all ovens are different mine took about 40 min to cook just keep an eye on it after 20 min of cooking.
9. As it is cooking take the rest of the ham and add the brown sugar to a saute pan and cook till carmeized.
10. Once it is finish cooking take out of the oven add the rest of the cheese and then the caramelized ham let cheese melt from the heat and then serve with any style off eggs you like I usually just make scrambled eggs.

Unfold the pastry sheet on a lightly floured surface. Starting at the short side, roll up like a jelly roll. Place seam-side down onto a baking sheet. Fold the pastry in half to cover the cheese and the ham. Seal the pastry with a fork.