Chicken and Smoked Bacon Filo Pastry Parcels

Name: Chicken and Smoked Bacon Filo Pastry Parcels
Yield: Makes 16 parcels
Ingredients: Melted butter in a saucepan; A pinch – no more – of salt and plenty of freshly ground black pepper; 8 sheets of filo pastry; A pinch – no more – of salt and plenty of freshly ground black pepper; A pinch – no more – of salt and plenty of freshly ground black pepper; 4 cooked chicken breasts (either roast or poached), skin removed, the chicken meat cut into fine dice; 4 cooked chicken breasts (either roast or poached), skin removed, the chicken meat cut into fine dice; 6 rashers of the best smoked back bacon, sliced into fine dice – easy with a really sharp knife; 8 oz/225 g cream cheese; 2 tbsp sunflower or olive oil; 1 onion, skinned and finely chopped; 2 tbsp sunflower or olive oil

Preparation info

Makes
16
parcels

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

Apart from bread, pastry of whichever sort, puff, short, or as in this case filo, is an excellent way to encase a substantial filling for a picnic. The smoked bacon in the filling for these filo parcels is delicious and adds a complementary flavour to the chicken.

Allow 3–4 parcels per person, depending on age (which is an indication of appetite) and whether this is the main part of the picnic or one of two or three items.

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