Pumpkin and bacon puff pastry recipe, by Laura Ponts

A puff pastry can be the most helpful. In a matter of minutes you can cook a delicious dish packed with tasty ingredients. A laura ponts She loves it and uses it a lot in her recipes. The result is always very colorful and with a most original mix of flavors. On his last visit to our kitchens, he was encouraged to prepare a puff pastry with pumpkin, bacon, onion and delicious goat cheese. Take note because it will save you on more than one occasion when you have guests. Easier to prepare impossible.

For Laura Ponts, one of the best combinations of ingredients to crown a puff pastry is this. But It is a recipe that can be transformed to the taste of each one with great ease. If you want it to be less fat, you can remove the bacon. If goat cheese is not your thing, you can use pecorino. If you don’t feel like using pumpkin, you can replace it with another vegetable. The options are endless and customizable.

A trick that we have loved about this Laura Ponts puff pastry is around the edges. The ‘food stylist’, an expert in creating very attractive as well as delicious dishes, uses a second puff pastry dough to give volume to the edges. The master touch? Decorate the corners with figures created with cookie cutters.

Ingredients

2 sheets of puff pastry, 2 onions, 200 g of bacon, half a small pumpkin, 200 g of goat cheese, 1 garlic clove, 1 egg, extra virgin olive oil, fresh chives or parsley, salt and black pepper

Elaboration

• Cut the pumpkin into cubes, the onion into very thin julienne strips and the goat cheese roll into thick slices. Chop the garlic clove.
• Sauté the pumpkin and reserve. Sauté the onion with the minced garlic and reserve. Brown the bacon without using oil, let it brown in the fat itself.
• Cut 4 strips of puff pastry to place on the edge of the other puff pastry and make it thicker. You can also cut different shapes with the remains of the puff pastry with which to decorate the plate.
• Glue the strips to the edges of the puff pastry by brushing with egg, oil or water.
• Put the onion and pumpkin on the puff pastry and brush the edges with egg. Bake for 5 to 7 minutes at a temperature of 180-190ºC.
• Remove the puff pastry from the oven and add the bacon and cheese slices. Bake for 6 to 8 minutes at a temperature of 180-190ºC.
• Take the puff pastry out of the oven and decorate with chopped chives and extra virgin olive oil.