Puff pastry slices with colourful fruits and curd cream (triangles)

AUTHOR
Kristopher Marks
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 4
COOK TIME
75 mins
TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 1 pack of (450 g; 10 slices) deep-frozen puff pastry
  • 1 Egg yolk (size M)
  • 1 egg (size M)
  • 50 g Butter or margarine
  • 85 g Icing sugar
  • 100 g Low-fat curd
  • 1 TABLESPOON Lemon juice
  • 1/2 TEASPOON grated rind of 1 untreated lemon
  • 1 small galia melon
  • 250 g Raspberries
  • 125 g Blackberries
  • 7-10 Tbsp Mint

Directions

  1. 1

    Place the puff pastry slices next to each other and let them thaw for about 15 minutes. Cut 6 slices of dough diagonally in half. Cut 4 slices into 1 cm wide strips. Whisk the egg yolks. Brush triangles with it, stick the dough strips as a border on top and also brush with egg yolk.

  2. 2

    Place puff pastry triangles on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for 15-20 minutes until golden brown. Let the particles cool down on a cake rack.

  3. 3

    In the meantime, separate the egg. Cream egg yolk, fat, 50 g icing sugar, quark, lemon juice and zest with the whisk of the hand mixer. Beat the egg white until stiff, while pouring in 25 g icing sugar.

  4. 4

    Fold the beaten egg white into the cream. Halve the melon and remove the seeds with a spoon. Quarter the melon halves. Cut the flesh from the skin and cut into thin slices. Sort the berries and wash if necessary.

  5. 5

    Fill the puff pastry with cream and cover with the fruit. Dust with 10 g icing sugar and decorate with mint.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
310 kcal
CARBS
30 g
FATS
18 g
PROTEINS
5 g

Categories & Tags

Cakes & Pastriessweet