Start your meal with this nice plate: Brie, bacon and cranberry filo bites
How to Make Brie, bacon and cranberry filo bites
Preparation time:
30 mins to 1 hour
Cooking time:
10 to 30 mins
Serves:
Makes 24 canapes
Ingredients
- 2 x sheets of filo pastry
- 55g/2oz unsalted butter
- 150g/5½oz brie
- 1–2 tsp wholegrain mustard
- 100g/3½oz cranberry
- 75g/2¾oz smoked back bacon
- freshly ground black pepper
Method
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Preheat the oven to 190C/170C Fan/Gas 5.
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Take one sheet of the filo pastry and cover the rest of the pastry with a damp tea towel to stop it drying out. Cut the pastry in half so it is easier to work with. Take one half of the pastry and brush it with a little of the melted butter. Cut this half into 20 rough 5cm/2in squares. Take three of the squares and place them on top of each other, placing each at a slight angle to the one underneath (forming a star shape).
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Push the stack of pastry squares into one of the holes of a mini muffin tin, to make an empty pastry case. Repeat with the remaining pastry until all 24 holes are filled.
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Cut the brie into 24 small pieces and place one piece into each pastry case. Dot with a tiny amount of mustard, if using, add a little cranberry sauce and top with a few strips of bacon.
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Bake for 10–12 minutes, or until the bacon is cooked, the cheese melted and the pastry golden-brown. Leave to cool in the tin for a couple of minutes before removing carefully and serving.
