Puff Pastry Pizza
By Jennifer Curcio
I love simple, quick and flavoursome mid-week meal options and this is one of our favourites. Every few weeks we make a version of this Puff Pastry Pizza and serve it with a few fresh sides to balance out the indulgence of the pastry.
The version I’ve shared below is our basic, go-to recipe but we sometimes swap around ingredients. Some toppings we also use are soft feta, different pesto flavours, marinated mushrooms, anchovies – the options are quite endless really.
If you’re after a quick option during the week this is a fantastic one, and it is FULL of flavour.
Enjoy!
Puff Pastry Pizza
Serves 2 – 3 as a side dish
Spanish onion, 40-42g
Mixed olives (Kalamata and green, pitted), roughly 15 olives (55g)
Cherry tomatoes, 115g
Puff pastry, one roll/sheet
Tomato paste, 5 tbsp
Tomato pesto, 3 tbsp
Sea salt and pepper
Runny mild flavoured honey, 1.5tbsp
Quality olive oil for drizzling
Preheat your oven according to the instructions on your puff pastry packet
While the oven is heating up, prepare your toppings. Slice the Spanish onion thinly into semi-circles, then the olives into circles, and the cherry tomatoes into thin slices – set aside
Roll out the puff pastry onto an oven tray leaving the sheet on so you can use it as your baking paper (alternatively you can peel the pastry off the provided sheet if not ovenproof, and place it onto an oven tray lined with baking paper)
Scatter the five tablespoons of tomato paste onto the pastry sheet and using the back of a spoon, spread the paste as evenly across as you can, reaching up to the pastry’s edges
Now add the tomato pesto by spreading or drizzling it across the pastry
For the toppings, crumble the crescents of Spanish onion in your hands and scatter them onto the pastry, followed by the tomato slices and then the olives
Scatter a pinch of sea salt over the top, followed by a few twists of pepper to taste
Drizzle the honey as evenly as you can across the top of the puff pastry pizza (or a little more to your taste), then follow with a light drizzle of olive oil
Once the oven has warmed up, place the puff pastry pizza in the oven and cook according to the instructions on your puff pastry packet
As soon as it’s ready, pull the puff pastry out and if it looks a little dry, add one final drizzle of olive oil before cutting into slices and serving
