Puff Pastry Roll with Creamy Chicken and Ham Filling

Puff pastry roll with creamy chicken and ham filling

A special delicious recipe which can be enjoyed any time of the year but it will impress your guests at a dinner party as a first dish or at a buffet table among other delicacies

Adapted from a recipe leaflet of "Chryssi Zymi",
a well known Greek pastry products company

 Ingredients (for 6-8 people):

1 sheet of puff pastry, well thawed

1 chicken, about 1800gr.

1 tea-cup of Kerrygold Regato cheese, grated (or other similar)

½ tea-cup of ham, finely chopped

½ tea-cup of milk

½ tea-cup of very fine breadcrumbs

3-4 thin slices of streaky bacon, finely chopped

1 bell green pepper, roughly grated

1 bell red pepper, roughly grated

2 tbsp of finely chopped sausages (the hot dog type) - optional

1 tbsp of mild mustard
1 tsp of ground allspice (optional -my addition)

salt

pepper

1 egg, lightly beaten

Method:

Boil the chicken for about 1 hour. Transfer on a plate and allow to cool down. Take the meat off the bones (breasts and thighs) and cut in small pieces.

In a large bowl put all the ingredients together along with the chicken and mix with your hands so to have a homogeneous mixture.

Preheat the oven to 250°C.

Lay a large piece of baking paper on the table and spread the chicken mixture evenly on it. Roll the baking paper into a roll, transfer in a baking sheet and bake in the oven for about 45 minutes.

When it is lightly coloured take out of the oven and carefully unfold the baking paper, draining the chicken roll of its juices (which you will keep aside).

Reduce the oven temperature to 180°C.

Open the puff pastry on the table and place the chicken roll in the middle. Brush the edges of the pastry with the beaten egg and fold again into a roll closing the two sides as well. Brush the top of the pastry with the rest of the egg and put in the oven.

Bake for about 30 minutes until it gets nicely coloured.

Take out of the oven and let it stand for a few minutes before you cut into slices.

Serve along with sweet peas and other vegetables which you have boiled in the juices you kept from the chicken roll.

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