Parmesan & Pecorino Romano Savory Cookies..... Do Ahead For A Party.
I had a couple of ready round rolls of pâte brisé in our fridge for quite some time now and wanted to get rid of them because expiry date was coming near so I thought of taking a heart shaped pastry cutter, used it to cut out hearts and top them with a concoction of thick béchamel sauce with parmesan and pecorino cheeses, bake them and dress them up a little to look good. The basic thing you have to do here is to make the thick béchamel sauce which goes like this:
To make the thick béchamel you will need.
- 100 gr of good refined fresh butter.
- 100 gr of all purpose flour.
- 150 ml heavy cream 35% fat.
- Full cream milk.
- 1 cup grated parmesan cheese.
- ½ cup grated pecorino Romano cheese (this cheese is very salty).
- 1 whole medium size egg.
- No salt, white pepper, nutmeg.
Method:
- Preheat your oven to 190 degrees Celsius.
- Melt butter in a relatively large sauce pan.
- Add flour to make a roux.
- Cook roux to dispel flour taste.
- Add 150 ml of cream and whisk to combine into a thick paste.
- Start adding milk about 1 - 2cups till you obtain a larger quantity of thick béchamel.
- Add Parmesan and Pecorino cheeses and keep on whisking to combine into a nice thick paste. At some point your whisk may have difficulty turning so use a silicone spatula to stir and mix.
- Season with freshly ground white pepper and nutmeg. Set aside to cool.
- Once cooled add one whole egg and stir to combine well, set aside.
- Cut the pastry with your cutter and arrange on a cookie tray.
- When you have cut all the ready flat pastry, pick up the remaining, and roll out with your rolling pin to cut out some more hearts.
- Each ready round pastry bought from the super market cuts out about 30 hearts with this cutter.
- Bake for 15 minutes on second lowest shelf of your oven or till a nice brownish tan color is obtained.
- Add the next tray and so on.
- As soon as each tray is out of the oven the béchamel mix will still be soft, so that is your chance to add one of the following extra condiments:
- Chipotle flakes (smoked Jalapeño flakes) or
- Tabasco or
- Cayenne pepper or
- One leaf of Sage and / or
- A pinch of Rosemary and / or
- A pinch of Thyme and / or
- Anything else you can think of.
Enjoy!
Stelio
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