Filled Puff Pastry Snacks, Including Holiday Snacks: Step-by-step Recipes With Photos

2025 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-23 12:41

Delicious puff pastry snacks: a selection of recipes for every taste and wallet

Puff pastry is loved by both experienced chefs and those who are just starting their work in the culinary field. Modern manufacturers have made it much easier for those who like to cook by supplying a ready-made product to stores that only needs additions to taste and a short heat treatment. Today we will talk about how to make delicious puff pastry snacks with different fillings.

Content

• 1 Step-by-step recipes for puff pastry snacks

  • 1.1 Puff pastry snack with sausages

    1.1.1 Video: sausages in puff pastry

  • 1.2 Puff pastry snack with sausage and cheese

    1.2.1 Video: curls with cheese and sausage

  • 1.3 Puff pastry appetizer with minced meat

    1.3.1 Video: meatballs in dough in 15 minutes

  • 1.4 Puff pastry snack pies with liver

    1.4.1 Video: puff pastry pies with liver

  • 1.5 Festive puff pastry pies with red fish and mushrooms

    1.5.1 Video: fish puffs

Step-by-step recipes for puff pastry snacks

The finished puff pastry is a delight! Of course, now I speak only on my own behalf. But I am sure that if not all, then most of those who are familiar with this product will express themselves with the same emotions. Not really gutting your wallet, you can cook a huge number of amazingly tasty things: puffs, pies, pies, tartlets with various fillings, rolls. I buy puff pastry quite often and always experiment with fillings. Well, those recipes that have already firmly entered the menu of our family, I will describe below.

Puff pastry snack with sausages

Sausages in dough are popular with many adults and children. An excellent alternative to a sandwich satisfies hunger quickly and for a long time. In order not to overpay for a finished product and not to doubt its quality, it is better to cook such a dish at home. Moreover, this process is very easy.

Ingredients:

• 10 sausages;
• 400 g of puff yeast-free dough;
• 1 egg;
• sesame seeds.

Preparation:

1. Put the puff pastry on a floured work surface, roll it into a rectangular layer no more than 2 mm thick and cut into long strips 2.5 cm wide.

   

   Prepare the dough

2. Wrap a strip of dough around each sausage as shown in the photo below.

   

   Wrap the sausages in the dough

3. Place the pieces on a baking sheet lined with baking paper, leaving a few centimeters between them.

   

   Transfer the baked sausages to a baking sheet

4. Lubricate the surface with a lightly beaten egg and sprinkle with sesame seeds.

   

   Lubricate the blanks with an egg

5. Place a baking sheet with sausages in an oven preheated to 200 degrees and cook for 15-20 minutes.

6. Once the dough is browned, remove the snack from the oven and transfer to a serving platter. Dough sausages can be served hot, warm or cold.

   

   Cook the appetizer before browning

Video: sausages in puff pastry

Puff pastry appetizer with sausage and cheese

To create another great snack, you will need foods that are almost always in the refrigerator.

Ingredients:

• 250 g puff pastry;
• 150 g boiled sausage without fat;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 1 egg yolk.

Preparation:

1. Put the dough on the table and roll it into a layer 3-5 mm.

   

   Roll out the dough

2. Put the boiled sausage cut into halves on the dough, spread the cheese slices on top.

   

   Layer the sausage and cheese on top of the dough

3. Gently roll the dough into a roll and cut into 3–4 cm wide portions.

   

   Cut the filled dough roll into portions

4. Grease a baking dish with vegetable oil and transfer the dough pieces with sausage and cheese into it.

5. Using a cooking brush, coat the blanks with raw egg yolk.

   

   Lubricate the blanks with egg yolk

6. Bake the snack for 25 minutes at 180 degrees.

   

   Cook the snack in the oven for about half an hour

7. The puff pastry snack with sausage and cheese can be served in any form, but it tastes best when hot.

   

   The sausage and cheese puff pastry snack is best served hot

Video: curls with cheese and sausage

Puff pastry appetizer with minced meat

The next option for puff pastry treats is suitable both for a regular meal and for a holiday. Meat balls in amazing airy "nets" are very appetizing and tasty.

Ingredients:

• 500 g ground pork and beef;
• 500 g of puff yeast dough;
• 1 head of onion;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1 egg yolk;
• 1 tbsp. l. milk;
• salt and black pepper to taste.

Preparation:

1. Put the mixed minced meat in a large container. Add finely chopped onions (a small head or half of a large onion), minced garlic, salt and black pepper.

   

   Place the filling ingredients in a shared bowl

2. Mix all ingredients thoroughly.

   

   Mix the resulting mass well

3. Roll out a sheet of dough into a rectangular layer. The recommended thickness is 3 mm.

4. Cut the dough into strips 5–7 mm wide.

   

   Cut the rolled dough into thin strips

5. Roll a small dense ball out of the minced meat, wrap it with 2-3 strips of dough, trying to cover the filling as much as possible. Repeat these steps for all the minced meat and dough.

   

   Wrap the minced meat balls with strips of dough

6. Transfer the pieces to a baking sheet with a piece of baking paper.

   

   Transfer the dough balls to the baking sheet

7. Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake for 40–45 minutes.

   

   Bake the snack balls until the minced meat and dough are done

Video: meat balls in dough in 15 minutes

Puff pastry snack pies with liver

The liver can be used not only for preparing first and second courses, salads and snacks, but also as a filling for pies. The puff pastry option is a prime example.

Ingredients:

• 700 g puff pastry;
• 500 g chicken liver;
• 2 onions;
• 50 ml of vegetable oil;
• salt and black pepper to taste.

Preparation:

1. Put finely chopped onions in a pan with heated vegetable oil and fry until half cooked.

2. Add the washed chicken liver to the onion, stir, continue to fry until the offal is fully cooked.

   

   Saute the onions and liver

3. After 10 minutes of frying the filling ingredients, add salt and black pepper.

4. Cool the liver with onions, chop with a meat grinder or blender.

   

   Grind the fried liver in any convenient way

5. Roll out the puff pastry into a layer of 4–5 mm, cut into small rectangles.

   

   Cut the dough into rectangles

6. Place a small amount of filling on one side of each piece, cover the liver mass with the free half of the dough, pinch the edges, forming patties.

   

   Shape the patties

7. Transfer the pies to a baking sheet with parchment, brush a little with vegetable oil.

8. Cook the appetizer at 180 degrees for 15 minutes.

   

   The pies will be ready in a quarter of an hour.

Video: puff pastry pies with liver

Festive puff pastry pies with red fish and mushrooms

If you want to surprise guests at the festive table or just to please your loved ones at a family tea party on a weekend, try making delicate and aromatic pies filled with red fish, mushrooms, rice and spinach. You have to tinker a little, but in the end everyone will be happy.

Ingredients:

• 2 sheets of puff pastry;
• 2 tbsp. l. butter;
• 3 pcs. shallots;
• 450 g of champignons;
• 300 g red fish fillet;
• 1 tbsp. boiled rice;
• 100 g spinach;
• 4-5 sprigs of fresh dill;
• 1 egg;
• salt and black pepper.

Preparation:

1. Prepare food. Boil until tender and cool the rice. Defrost the spinach and mix with finely chopped dill. Cut the champignons into thin slices, fresh fish into slices, peeled onions into half rings.

   

   Prepare the products you want

2. Put the onion in a skillet with melted butter and fry for 2 minutes. Add mushrooms, salt and black pepper to taste, stir. Continue cooking in the pan until the liquid has completely evaporated.

   

   Fry mushrooms with onions in butter

3. Roll out the dough into thin layers and cut so that you get square small pieces.
4. Leave half of the blanks empty. This portion of the dough will form the top of the patties.

5. On the second part of the dough (for each square), place the previously prepared ingredients: rice, spinach with dill, mushrooms, fish.

   

   Layer the filling ingredients on top of the dough.

6. Cover the filling with dough pieces without filling, fasten the edges of the blanks, pressing them with a fork along the entire perimeter.
7. Brush the pies with a beaten egg and place in the oven. Cooking temperature - 200 degrees, time - 25-35 minutes.

8. Put the finished pies on a beautiful dish and serve warm.

   

   Let the finished pies cool slightly

An excellent puff pastry appetizer can be prepared with any fish you like. To verify this, just watch the video below.

Video: puffs with fish

Appetizing, tasty and easy-to-prepare puff pastry snacks are loved by everyone. Choose toppings and please your loved ones. If you have your own interesting options for such a treat, share them in the comments below. Enjoy your meal!