for 32 pieces

Filling

160 g	cream cheese (e.g. Gala)
1	pear, diced
1	red chilli pepper, deseeded, finely chopped
2 tbsp	unsalted pistachios, roughly chopped
1 tbsp	honey
¼ tsp	salt
a little	pepper

Puff pastry parcels

2	puff pastry dough, rolled into a rectangle, quartered lengthwise, cut into eighths crosswise
1	egg, beaten

Bake

½ tbsp	olive oil
1 tsp	sambal oelek

How it's done

Filling

Combine the cream cheese with all the ingredients up to and including pepper.

Puff pastry parcels

Spoon the filling onto one half of each piece of dough. Cut out any shape you like in the centre of the free half of dough (e.g. circle, star, moon). Brush the pieces of dough with a little egg, lay over the filling and press the edges down firmly with a fork. Place the puff pastry parcels on an oven tray lined with baking paper, then brush with the rest of the egg.

Bake

For approx. 30 mins. in the centre of an oven preheated to 200°C. Remove from the oven, place on a cooling rack. Combine the oil with the sambal oelek, brush the hot pastry parcels with the oil mixture and leave to cool

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