The One Spinach Appetizer Puff Recipes

SPINACH IN PUFF PASTRY

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Heat the butter in a saute pan and cook the onions over medium-low heat for 5 to 7 minutes, until tender. Add the garlic and cook for 1 more minute. Meanwhile, squeeze most of the water out of the spinach and place it in a bowl. Add the onion mixture, scallions, Gruyere, Parmesan, eggs, bread crumbs, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and pignolis. Mix well.
• Unfold one sheet of puff pastry and place it on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Spread the spinach mixture in the middle of the pastry, leaving a 1-inch border. Brush the border with the egg wash. Roll out the second piece of puff pastry on a floured board until it's an inch larger in each direction. Place the second sheet of pastry over the spinach and seal the edges, crimping them with a fork. Brush the top with egg wash but don't let it drip down the sides or the pastry won't rise. Make three small slits in the pastry, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and bake for 30 to 40 minutes, until the pastry is lightly browned. Transfer to a cutting board and serve hot.

CHICKEN AND SPINACH PUFFS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Cook and stir chicken, onion, and garlic in a large skillet over medium-low heat until onion is tender, about 5 minutes. Mix in spinach. Cook, stirring often, until spinach is reduced and chicken is lightly browned, about 10 more minutes. Transfer mixture to a bowl and combine with ricotta cheese, Parmesan cheese, and butter; mix until filling is creamy.
• Unroll crescent roll dough and pinch 2 triangles together to form a rectangle of dough; repeat with remaining dough to make 12 rectangles. Place about 1 tablespoon of chicken filling onto the center of each rectangle and fold the corners together to make balls. Arrange balls on a large baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until filling is heated through and puffs are golden brown, about 12 minutes.

THE ONE SPINACH APPETIZER PUFF

Steps:

• Break egg into a bowl and beat with a whisk for 30 seconds.
• Add remaining ingredients and combine with a wooden spoon until well mixed.
• Let batter sit while greasing a mini-muffin pan and preheating oven to 375 degrees.
• Spoon batter into the mini-muffin pan to 3/4 full.
• Bake for 25-30 minutes or until puffed and golden brown.
• TIP: There will be leftover batter after filling the 24 - mini muffin pan. If you don't have a second pan, and you don't want to wait for the first batch to finish, use small foil tart cups for the last few, they may take a bit longer to cook. However, since these will disappear quickly, and they can be frozen, it is much easier to just double the recipe and just make 2 1/2 - 3 pans.

SPINACH PUFFS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. Unfold puff pastry; cut each sheet into 12 sections. Place in greased mini muffin cups, pressing gently onto bottoms and up sides, allowing corners to point up., In a large bowl, stir together spinach, cream cheese, mozzarella, feta, 1 egg, garlic, pepper and salt. Spoon 1 tablespoon into each cup. Bring pastry corners together and pinch to seal. In a small bowl, beat remaining egg. Brush over pastry edges. Bake until puffed and golden brown, about 20 minutes.

CHEESY CHICKEN SPINACH APPETIZER PUFFS

Steps:

• Need Mini Cup Cake Pans).
• Grind chicken breast in food processor until consistency of ground meat.
• Defrost spinach according to directions of package and drain. Dry the spinach as much as possible with paper towels and set aside.
• Rough chop artichoke hearts until they are 1/8" pieces and set aside.
• Chop onion to a 1/4" dice and mince garlic cloves.
• Add 2 tablespoons oil to a sauté pan and heat over medium heat, once warm add onions and sweat onions about 5 minutes than add minced garlic. Cook until tender and the onion starts to show color.
• Add ground chicken breasts to pan with onions and garlic and cook thoroughly.
• Once chicken is cooked, add artichoke hearts and chopped spinach. Mix and heat through.
• Turn the heat down to low, add the whole package of laughing cow cheese and mix everything together. Heat until the cheese is just melted.
• Remove from heat and allow to cool to room temperature.
• Once room temperature is achieved, stir in the sour cream.
• Place in refrigerator and allow to cool completely about 15 minutes.
• Once chicken mixture is completely cool heat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Unroll crescent dough and for each serving you will need a half of a crescent triangle piece. Roll the dough with rolling pin to stretch it and than poke all over with fork to help prevent the dough from rising, do the same to each half piece.
• Take the rolled out piece and place in cupcake pan so that the sides and bottom are covered and there is dough to fold over top to patch the pieces together.
• Once the whole pan is filled with the dough place about 1-2 teaspoon of the chicken mixture in each and fold over the tops making sure there are no openings.
• Bake in the 375 degree F oven for 14-16 minutes (depending on your oven.).
• They are done once golden brown on top and will just pop right out of the pan.
• Enjoy!