Braided puff pastry filled with beef & cheese

Braided puff pastry filled with beef & cheese

Ingredients  

-2 sheets frozen puff pastry, defrosted.

-1 egg for egg wash ( in a small bowl, beat egg, with 1 Tbsp water).

Filling:

250 g ground meat beef, or mixture of lamb and beef.

1 large onion, finely chopped.

1-2 garlic cloves, minced.

2 tbs. olive oil

black pepper, salt  to taste .

mozzarella cheese .

Method

The filling

1-Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Heat olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onion and cook about 3-4 minutes. Add garlic and cook 30 seconds

 then add meat ,spices.

2- Continue to simmer until meat is cooked then add cheese

1-Unfold 1 pastry sheet on a lightly floured surface. Pastry will unfold into thirds. 

2-Spread mixture down the center of the pastry square. Cut slits 1 inch apart from the 2 sides of the pastry to within 1/2 inch of the filling. 

3-Starting at one end, fold the pastry strips over the filling, alternating sides, to cover the filling. Repeat with the remaining pastry sheet. Place the filled pastries onto 2 baking sheets

4-Brush the pastries with the egg wash.

5-Bake for 20 minutes or until the pastries are golden brown.

6-Cut into it and here’s what you find inside…

serve warm