Bacon and Onion Flaky Pastry Rolls

Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min

• 2 sheets of ready-rolled puff pastry

  Pastry

  Ready rolled puff or shortcrust

  Ideal for quick pies

  or 200g frozen puff pastry

  Pastry

  Ready rolled puff or shortcrust

  Ideal for quick pies

  rolled out thinly
• 1 tablespoon olive oil

  Olive oil

  Usually the darker green the oil, the richer the flavour.

  • Extra virgin olive oil is good for drizzling on salads and should never be heated as this destroys the fine properties
  • Lighter olive oil is good for adding to bread, or to flavour a salad or marinade for chicken, meat, fish or vegetables. Lighter olive oil can be gently heated and added to marinades and baking.
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 200g bacon rashers, chopped finely
• 2 tablespoon pesto, basil or sun-dried tomato
• 2 tablespoon finely chopped basil

  Herbs

  Ideal for seasoning pastas.

  To keep cut parsley or coriander, put in a hole free polythene bag with a couple of tablespoons of cold water, give the bag a good shake and keep in the salad drawer of the fridge. Herbs should keep for a week like this.

• 2 tablespoon grated Parmesan

  Cheese

  Add to eggs for omelettes, grate onto soups or salads.

  • Parmesan often goes rock hard or becomes horribly sweaty. Ideally, all cheese should be stored in a cool, airy place at a temperature of 46-50F/8-10C. However, most of us put it straight into the fridge. This is fine providing the cheese is kept loosely wrapped in its own airtight container so it isn’t tainted by other foods.
  • Store it in the salad drawer, which is not quite as cold as the rest of the fridge and use a micro plane for grating.