Zucchini and salmon flowers

Ingredients

  • Smoked salmon
  • Cream cheese (such as philadelphia)
  • Zucchini
  • Puff pastry

Steps

First of all cut the zucchini into really thin slices.
Sliced zucchini
Sliced zucchini

Cut the puff pastry it in strips; each one will be a flower.
Puff pastry
Puff pastry

Add the cream cheese in half of the strip, keep the other half empty as we will need it to close the flower. After adding the cream cheese, you have to add the zucchini slices and finally the salmon.

Puff pastry before being closed
Puff pastry before being closed

Close the strip using the other half of the puff pastry.
Pre rolled puff pastry
Pre rolled puff pastry
Now it's time for the most difficult step, creating the flower. The theory it's easy: take one of the sides of the strip and start rolling until the end, you will see that some zucchini starts going away of the puff pastry. Don't worry, put them in again.

Flower before being baked
Flower before being baked

Now put all the flowers into a preheated oven at 180 Celsius (356F) for 20min.

Enjoy!
Zucchini and salmon flower
Zucchini and salmon flower

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