Description
Learn how to make these French chicken and mushroom vol au vents. They are small puff pastry cases with a creamy filling. Perfect canapés!
Ingredients
Scale
- 320g (1 ready rolled) puff pastry sheet
- 1 egg, whisked
- 15ml (1 tbsp) oil
- 15ml (1 tbsp) butter
- 1 onion, peeled and finely chopped
- 1 chicken breast, cut into small pieces
- 250g (3 cups) mushrooms, cleaned and thinly sliced
- 250ml (1 cup) white wine
- 125ml (1/2 cup) double cream
- 60g (1/2 cup) Parmigiano Reggiano, grated
- 30g (1oz) chives, washed and finely chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200°C / 400°F / gas mark 6.
- Line a baking tray with non-stick baking paper.
- Cut out six round discs (7cm/3in in diameter) from pastry sheet.
- Egg wash all of them and place on the baking tray.
- Using smaller round cutter (4cm/1½in in diameter) cut each remaining disc.
- Place these outer circle on top of base discs on baking tray.
- Egg wash the vol au vents again and place in the oven for 15-20 minutes or until crisp and golden brown. Remove and set aside.
- While the pastry is cooking, fry the onion with the oil and butter over a medium heat until softened and translucent.
- Turn up the heat and tip in the chicken. Brown on all sides.
- Add the mushrooms and cook for three minutes.
- Pour in the wine and let it sizzle until the liquid as halved.
- Stir in the double cream and cheese. Season to taste.
- Spoon into pastry cases and serve warm, sprinkled with chives.
Notes
- [Optional] To give your recipe extra flair, you can top your vol au vents with Parmesan Crisps, as you can see in the photos.
- If you don’t want to faff around, you can buy ready made puff pastry cases to save you time.
- The measurements provided in the recipe act as guidance. It truly depends on how big the pastry cutters are you are using for the recipe, i.e. how many servings you’ll get. Use small ones for canapes, bigger ones for starters.
- It is quite likely that you’ll end up with leftover filling. You can enjoy it with pasta or rice!
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Category: Starter
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: French