I decided to participate in Weekend Cook and Tell Event at SeriousEats.com and my photo was featured in their Round Up again, 2nd week in a row!!! For this weekend, the event was about making anything with puff pastry. I love puff pastry, and for some time have been on a serious puff pastry kick, which is why I have lots of it in my freezer. So I thought, how easy and convenient, I already have it in my freezer, I also have bell peppers and mushrooms that are about to rot, and there is a big brick of Mozzarella cheese in my refrigerator. Why not put all four ingredients to practical use and create an easy appetizer – small pizzas?
I was very happy I did – little pizzas were delicious, and it took me only 25 minutes to prepare them (plus 20 minutes for baking). Not surprisingly, these little pizzettes are already gone. One of them made a great appetizer, and I’ve eaten another one the next morning for breakfast with an egg on top.
Once I started making these little pizzettes, I sort of got carried away and also made a sweet dessert using puff pastry. I just love baking with Puff Pastry because it is so versatile. You can make something sweet, or you can make something savory. Something open like these little pizzas, or something closed like these butternut squash turnovers. And it all takes a very short time.
Puff pastry pizza with bell peppers, mushrooms, Mozzarella and Parmesan cheese
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 20 min
Ingredients (for 1 sheet of puff pastry):
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 5 or 6 mushrooms
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon parsley
- pepper
- salt
- handful of small bell peppers
- 1/4 cup grated Mozzarella cheese
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 puff pastry sheet
- 1 egg for egg wash
This recipe is for 1 sheet of puff pastry (usually there are 2 sheets in a package), and you can easily double it (or triple it!) if you’re making more.
1) Preheat oven to 415. Defrost 1 sheet of puff pastry for about 40 minutes until just soft. Don’t let puff pastry sheet get too warm and put it in the refrigerator if you’re not using it right away after 40 minutes of defrosting.
2) Slice each mushroom into 5 slices. Cook mushrooms for about 5 minutes on high heat, then 5 minutes on low, uncovered, until mushrooms soften and juices evaporate. Season with paprika, parsley. Salt and pepper to taste.
3) Slice each small bell pepper into halves or quarters.
4) Line your baking sheet with parchment paper. You don’t have to grease parchment paper. Cut puff pastry sheet into 2 parts like shown on the photo and place them on parchment paper on your baking sheet.
Brush pastry sheets with egg wash, salt slightly.
5) Spread cooked mushrooms in a straight line on top of each pastry sheet, without filling the whole space of puff pastry, so that you still have edges unfilled for puff.
Then top each pastry sheet with Mozzarella and Parmesan cheese. Finally, top with bell peppers. It should look like this.
5) Bake on the middle rack in the oven for 20 minutes until the puff pastry puffs along the edges and gets golden-brown color.
More puff pastry recipes:
- Apple tarte tatin, or simply caramel apple tart, with strawberries
- Rugelach with pecan and raisin filling
- Cinnamon apple pockets, puff pastry
- Halloween apple and pear mummy treats
- Nightmare harvest: Halloween pumpkin puff pastry pie (tart) with apple-cranberry stuffed crust, chocolate bugs, and cinnamon wizard hats
- Plum and apple tart on puff pastry
- Pumpkin (Butternut squash) turnovers recipe
I’m crazy about puff pastry, it’s so….. easy to work with. I love your little pizzas, how fun to have individual pizzas like this for a casual dinner party. With a simple salad they would make a lovely dinner!
Exactly! You can have it as an appetizer, as a light dinner (with salad), or I even had it for breakfast with a poached egg on top.
I adore puff pastry. It’s like a little piece of heaven!
Thanks for visiting, your blog looks lovely!
This looks just lovely! I love working with the puff pastry too – it’s so easy to work with and so flavorful. I’ve got some little peppers I need to do something with, and this looks just perfect
Puff pastry is so ridiculously easy to work with. And the end result is usually quite presentable for the amount of effort that went into it.
I love puff pastry! So convenient and absolutely delicious. Those mushrooms look devine
Whenever I feel like I am running out of time to make something good quick, puff pastry always comes to my rescue.
I also love using puff pastry – I have 2 packages of it in my freezer right now and it’s just so easy to pull out, thaw, and make something that people think I slaved over all day. Your pizza looks so good – and you take wonderful pictures.
- Gayle
Yes, just about anything made with puff pastry looks so presentable and usually takes just minutes to make. I just love the convenience.
Great way to use those puff pastries in savory dishes. Looks just perfectly baked.
looks very interesting.. I do it with cooked vegetables.. Thanks for stopping by at my space and leaving wonderful comments
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*sigh* this is so exquisite! I could stare at your pictures for a reaaally long time!! I can’t wait to get my hands on some heirlooms and duplicate this asap!
Thank you. It would be GREAT with heirlooms!
omg i would love to try your recipe
Oh, man…I love pizza, but you’ve made it even more irresistible! And peppers and mushrooms would be my topping choice, too
I can eat this type of pizza all day long, for lunch, dinner, and breakfast.
Yum, I can always go for a veggie packed pizza on puff pastry oh yes! Your photos on your blog are all mouth watering and your recipes look wonderful. Thanks for commenting on my blog so I could find your lovely blog here.
Thank you, I love visiting other blogs, that’s half the fun for me in blogging.
These little pizzas look delicious! And so easy too..
Great recipe for a quick, yet presentable snack
. Love puff pastry!
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Thank you for featuring me! I just checked out your post – what a lovely collection of dishes!
Love this idea! Thanks! Def going to try this!