Savoury Pastry Scrolls

These savoury pastry scrolls are really quick to make up so we often make them for lunch, picnics or on the go snacks. They also make really good party food – they are finger foods, savoury and a little bit more filling than chips. Essentially you can put whatever you like in them. Some of our favourite flavour combinations are:

• Ham, cheese and pineapple
• Vegemite and Cheese
• Chicken and sweet chilli sauce
• Olives and Tomato
• Spinach and Cheese (as seen in photos)
• A mix of whatever is in the fridge!

Preheat your oven to 160C. Lay out your sheets of puff pastry and chop up your ingredients. By the time you have done this the pastry will have thawed enough to use. Spread your ingredients evenly over the whole sheet. Try to make sure you have something in there to hold your ingredients on – a sauce or cheese. To make big scrolls you can just roll the whole sheet or for smaller scrolls you can slice your pastry into 3 strips and roll each one individually. Try to keep the roll fairly tight so that your ingredients don’t slip out. I like to give mine a little squeeze all along to be sure it is all held together. Once rolled, brush the outside of your scroll with either egg or butter to give it a nice golden crunch. Then slice the roll into little individual scrolls. Brush tops with egg/butter.

Spray a baking tray with olive oil and place each scroll flat on the tray, leaving a little space between each one for the pastry to puff. You can give each scroll a little reshaping if they need it before you put them on the tray.

Keep an eye on them in the oven as depending on the size of your scrolls and the temperament of your oven cooking time can differ. I wait for mine to have a dark golden colour before taking them out. This usually takes around 10 minutes.

For the spinach and cheese scrolls in the photos I used a 250g packet of frozen spinach, thaw and squeeze out the water, mix with 2 cups of grated cheese. Spread 3 sheets of pastry with tomato paste before topping with the mixture.

Get creative with your fillings and you can even make tasty sweet ones like apple and sultana or chocolate. What is your favourite filling?