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Five-ingredient zucchini cheese tart with honey and pistachio recipe.

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30+ ways with frozen puff pastry

There's no need to huff and puff in the kitchen. These recipes make the most of store-bought pastry sheets for both dinner (think pot pies and savoury tarts) and dessert.

31 recipes
This zucchini tart is easy and cheesy.
EASY

Five-ingredient zucchini and cheese tart with honey and pistachio

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Rough puff pastry.

(Or make your own with Karen Martini's rough puff pastry method)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Apple and cherry pies.

Apple and cherry pies

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
The Blue Ducks' fennel and squash squares with goat's cheese and pangrattato crumb.
EASY

Fennel and squash squares with pangrattato

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Karen Martini's Portuguese custard tarts.

Cheat's Portuguese tarts

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Cheat's samosas.
EASY

Cheat's samosas (vegetable curry puffs)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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Rachel Khoo's French almond and apricot millefeuilles with custard.

Deconstructed almond and apricot millefeuilles

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Rachel Khoo
Frank Camorra's pumpkin and washed-rind cheese tart.

Pumpkin and taleggio cheese tart

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Frank Camorra
Helen Goh's spinach, fennel, lemon and thyme bourekas.
EASY

Fennel and three-cheese bourekas (pastry triangles)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Slow-cooked beef short rib, miso and ale pies.

Beef short rib, miso and beer pot pies

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Chicken, leek and mushroom pie. Karen Martini MUSHROOMS recipes for Epicure and Good Food. Photographed by Marina Oliphant. Styling by Caroline Velik. Photographed May 28, 2013. The Age Newspaper and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Chicken, leek and mushroom pie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Five ingredient apple tart.
EASY

Fine apple tart recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Simple dessert: Strawberries and cream millefeuille.
EASY

Easy strawberries and cream millefeuille

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Jill Dupleix's chicken pot pie recipe.

Family-size chicken pot pie

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Salmon and creamed spinach en croute.
EASY

Salmon and creamed spinach en croute

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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This savoury tart is inspired by the pantry staple pasta sauce.

Helen Goh's puttanesca tart

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Neil Perry's beef chuck pie with peas. Yes please!

Beef pie recipe: Beef chuck and pea pies

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Jill Dupleix's rhubarb and pomegranate tart.

Rhubarb and pomegranate tart recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Tarte tatin with a twist.

Spiced apple tarte tatin with ginger beer caramel

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Schoolyard favourite: Adam Liaw's Adelaide pastie.

Adam Liaw's Adelaide pasties

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Bloody mary inspired beef sausage rolls with vodka spiked relish.

Bloody mary sausage rolls

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Neil Perry's fish pot pies

Neil Perry's fish pot pies

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Macaroni cheese meets cauliflower cheese.

Cauliflower and macaroni cheese pie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Puff-pastry twists
EASY

Puff-pastry twists

  • < 30 mins
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Vol-au-vents.

Chicken, bacon and mushroom vol-au-vents

  • 1-2 hrs
Chicken pot pies.

Chicken pot pies

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Caroline Velik
Beef and red wine pot pie.

Beef and red wine pot pie

  • 2 hrs +
  • Jill Dupleix
Sticky pomegranate molasses helps to caramelise the onion, leek and fennel.

Caramelised onion, eschallot, leek and fennel tart with goat's curd

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Butter, apples and sugar become one of the finest desserts in the world.

Jill Dupleix's tarte tatin

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
Adam Liaw's chicken and asparagus tartlette.

Chicken and asparagus tartlette recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Pear tart with Gorgonzola and walnuts.

Pear tart with thyme, gorgonzola and walnuts

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/creative-ways-with-frozen-puff-pastry-20190327-h1cv1t.html