Brin de Paille cheese in pastry
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Brin de Paille is a small, whole cows' milk cheese from Normandy. It is similar to Brie and here it has been baked whole in puff pastry,
Ingredients
Ingredients
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- 250 g or less of bought puff-pastry
- 1 Brin de Paille cheese
- 3 Cloves garlic, peeled and sliced
- Beaten egg or milk
Method
- Divide the puff pastry into two and roll out into rounds.
- The rounds should be large enough to encase the top or bottom on the cheese and cover the sides, with a slight overlap.
- Stab the garlic slices into the ridges on the cheese.
- Place the cheese on one of the pastry rounds, wet the inside edges with water and fold up over the sides.
- Turn the cheese over and place the the centre of the other round of pastry and repeat the wetting and folding process.
- Allow to rest in the fridge for a minimum of one hour.
- Pre-heat the oven to 180 C/Gas 4.
- Glaze the pastry with the beaten egg or milk
- Bake in the centre of the oven for about 40 minutes.
Serving suggestions
Serve with salad and Not-for-wimps garlic mayonnaise or any other mayonnaise.
Variations
As well as garlic, you can stab the cheese with herbs such as thyme or rosemary. Having eaten this now, I feel that a stronger cheese is called for as Brin de Paille has a very delicate flavour. Perhaps a very ripe,smelly Camembert de Normandie would be more suitable, in which case, slice the cheese in half, horizontally, and just use the one half.
See also
- French cheese fondue - a variation on cooked Vacherin cheese