Mushroom Puffs.

You can cook Mushroom Puffs using 15 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Mushroom Puffs

1. You need 1 of sheet of puff pastry(rectangular).
2. Prepare 3 tbsp of fresh, diced parsley.
3. Prepare 2 tbsp of fresh or dry thyme leaves.
4. You need 500 grams of fresh seasonal mushrooms.
5. You need 50 grams of soft mild (spreadable) cheese.
6. It's 3 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil.
7. You need 1 tsp of butter.
8. It's 1 1/2 of medium-large brown onions.
9. Prepare 1 tsp of balsamic vinegar.
10. It's 1 tsp of brown sugar.
11. Prepare 2 of hand-fulls whole walnuts.
12. Prepare to taste of White pepper and Sea salt.
13. It's of For garnishing.
14. Prepare of Green mint chutney as per requirement.
15. Prepare of Tomato ketchup As per requirement.

Mushroom Puffs instructions

1. Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees celsius..
2. On a lightly greased tray lay out the rectangles of cut pastry and put chopped walnuts in an oven-proof dish..
3. Bake for 20 mins or until the pastry has puffed and turned golden brown, remove from the oven and set aside to cool..
4. Begin preparing the caramelized onion. Dice onion finely length-ways and add into a heavy-based saucepan with olive oil, balsamic vinegar and brown sugar..
5. Keep stirring and cooking the onions slowly on low heat until they are translucent, soft and slightly brown, whilst preparing the mushrooms..
6. Rinse all mushrooms well and pat dry immediately to remove excess water with a clean tea towel or kitchen paper..
7. Slice mushrooms length-ways Heat olive oil and butter In a frying pan and add parsley, thyme and sea salt..
8. Add all mushrooms, white pepper and cook the mushrooms, continuously stirring, until they have reduced in size and start releasing their juice..
9. Cook till this juice dries up remove from heat.
10. In a blender combine 2/3rds of the roasted walnuts, little spreadable cheese and little green chutney (adjust as per taste).
11. Whizz until smooth and pourable, adding sea salt to taste if needed..
12. Assembling Prepare Pastry layers by gently separating each rectangle of cooked pastry into two layers..
13. Place pastry bases on a serving dish and gently layer the caramelized onion to the base, then sprinkle roughly chopped roast walnuts over the onion..
14. The nuts are an important textural element to this dish so avoid omitting them..
15. Add a 1.5 cm high layer of mushrooms over the top. Spread a fine layer of cheese over both sides of the middle pastry layer then add this to the base..
16. On top of the mid section add another layer of mushrooms.
17. Finally, add one of the top layers from the baked pastry to the dish..
18. For garnish- Drizzle the cheese & chutney mix over the top and finish with chopped walnuts I used some ketchup too to give red colour.