List of recipes using Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée): 24 recipes (lactose free)

Ham spirals

These puff pastry spirals made with smoked ham are delicious and quick to make.
116K3.8 58 min. September 7^th 2018

Olive twists

These savoury puff-pastry twists (rather like smoked salmon sacristains) make an ideal aperitif snack. The pastry is simply spread with tapenade.
58K3.7 1 hour 39 min. September 7^th 2018

Small foie gras pasties

Dainty pasties, filled with a morsel of seasoned foie gras.
308K4.6 2 hours September 7^th 2018

Smoked salmon sacristains

Sacristain (sexton in English, a strange name though common in French cooking) is a small pastry twist, made with puff pastry. There are many recipes with different flavours, sweet or savoury. Here is one with smoked salmon, ideal as an aperitif.
221K 33.9 1 hour 30 min. February 21^th 2011

Thin tomato jelly and avocado tart

For this sophisticated recipe, we'll be preparing a disc of tomato jelly to sit on a puff pastry base. This is topped with slices of avocado in a lime dressing.
27K 5 hours 16 min. September 30^th 2020

Tomato tart

This tart is very easy and quick to prepare.
270K4.8 1 hour 18 min. January 13^th 2011

Beef Wellington

Beef Wellington consists of a beef fillet (or tenderloin) that is first seared, then cooked in the oven in a puff pastry crust stuffed with a mushroom duxelles and morsels of foie gras. The recipe is rather long, but fairly straightfoward. Here I show you all the tips to help you make it sucessfully...
109K5 1 hour 38 min. December 24^th 2023

Chicken pie

Apart from the obvious chicken, this pie's puff pastry "lid" also conceals mushrooms, bacon, hard-boiled eggs and leeks.
106K4.3 2 hours 29 min. May 10^th 2023

Fine multi-tomato tart

This simple but very elegant tart makes the most of different tomato varieties. Their diversity allows us to create a multi-coloured tart, featuring all their attractive shades.
42K 59 min. October 14^th 2018

Leek and artichoke tart à la piémontaise

This is a quiche-style tart with a Piedmont-inspired twist: the filling is made with eggs, mascarpone (lighter than the usual cream) and Parmesan. The tart still has a moist texture to balance the puff-pastry crust, with the flavour of leeks and purple artichokes.
44K5 1 hour 25 min. December 7^th 2016

Pissaladière with puff pastry

This savoury tart is a traditional speciality around Nice, on France's Cote d'Azur. Originally, pissaladière had much in common with its Italian cousin, the pizza, but made with onions, anchovies and olives, and without tomatoes. This is a slightly different version, more friable (with a...
46K3.9 1 hour 38 min. May 7^th 2017

Thin cherry tomato and pesto tart

A tomato tart is a real taste of summer: this one uses cherry tomatoes, finished with a drizzle of pesto after cooking. Cherry tomatoes are an ideal way to add a variety of colours for a tart that looks just as good as it tastes.
28K 1 hour 1 min. August 23^th 2020

Tomato feuilleté with pesto

This is a fairly simple recipe, but the result is an elegant, thin tart, bursting with delicious Italian colour. The base is a a feuilletage, but savoury this time, topped with the concentrated flavours of Italian cuisine: pesto, tomatoes and Parmesan.
35K4.1 59 min. September 8^th 2018

Vegetable pie

Three layers of vegetables, baked in puff pastry.
231K3.9 1 hour 21 min. September 10^th 2018

Apple and pear tart

Apples and pears are combined in this sophisticated autumn tart. The pears are laid decoratively on top of stewed apple.
87K 24.9 59 min. October 27^th 2014

Apple Pie

This classic of family cooking is quite simple: just a puff pastry "shell" sealing in lightly sweetened slices of apple. During cooking, the fruit softens to resemble stewed apple. Serve warm, if possible, to enjoy at its best.
58K3.7 54 min. September 11^th 2018

Apple semelles (flat apple tarts)

The French semelle is a flat rectangular tart with a base of puff pastry. In this version, a layer of stewed apple is spread on the pastry, then topped with finely-sliced fruit.
146K4.3 1 hour 5 min. October 28^th 2011

Apple Strudel

Apple strudel is a traditional pastry from central Europe. It is like a large apple turnover, usually served in slices. Here is a version with apples, walnuts, almonds and rum-soaked raisins.
54K5 1 hour 32 min. September 11^th 2018

Cochelin d'Evreux

This cochelin, from the town of Evreux in Normandy, is a sort of giant apple turnover, flavoured with vanilla. It is served in slices, like a cake.
69K5 2 hours 2 min. September 10^th 2018

Express apple tart

A fine apple tart, very quick to make.
356K 24.6 51 min. April 8^th 2020

Little apple turnovers with almonds and raisins

These are small apple turnovers ("chaussons") of puff pastry, filled with a mixture of caramelised almonds, stewed apple and rum-soaked raisins. To be eaten just as they are...
294K3.8 1 hour 31 min. September 11^th 2018

Mini palmiers

Palmiers are a traditional French patisserie, consisting of folded puff pastry caramelized with sugar. These small versions are made with the shop-bought puff pastry that comes ready-rolled in a circle.
77K5 39 min. September 11^th 2018

Vol-au-vent cases

Vol-au-vents, whether large or bite-sized, need a special pastry case that is hollow to take the filling. Here is how to prepare these delicate cases using puff pastry.
292K4.1 44 min. October 16^th 2013

How to cook caramelized puff pastry well

When puff pastry is caramelized to use in patisseries like millefeuille, French chefs call it a "feuilletage" (which means "lamination" or "leafing"). This is baked on its own before being assembled with cream, fruit, etc. The baking needs to be carefully managed: the pastry should puff into layers,...
261K 24.9 36 min. September 3^rd 2017