Name: Chicken and Mushroom Filo Pastry Parcels
Yield: Serves 6–8
Ingredients: 2 lb/900 g cooked chicken breast, diced as small as you can, which will depend on how sharp your knife is; 1 lb/450 g reduced or full-fat cream cheese; 12 sheets of filo pastry; Melted butter – about 6 oz/170 g; 4 tbsp sunflower or olive oil and 4 oz/112 g butter; 2 lb/900 g mushrooms, wiped and chopped as finely as you can; 8 rashers of smoked streaky bacon, grilled till crisp then crumbled; 4 garlic cloves (optional)

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

A pile of these on a dish accompanied by a good salad makes a perfect lunch. You can prepare the parcels right up to the moment before you bake them, leave them covered with clingfilm on their baking tray in a cool place or a fridge, then just bake them before serving them hot. How many you allow per person does depend on appetites. This recipe makes 48 parcels.