Smoked Salmon, Dill and Cream Cheese Palmiers

Name: Smoked Salmon, Dill and Cream Cheese Palmiers
Ingredients: 225 g full fat cream cheese; 15 g fresh dill, finely chopped; zest of 1 lemon; 320 g sheet pre-rolled puff pastry; 200 g smoked salmon, roughly torn; 1 egg, beaten; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Serves
4–6
, makes 12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Seasonal Snacks

By Gabriella English

Published 2026

About

These look very festive with their burnished golden pastry, and they are the winning combination of easy-to-make yet luxurious-to-eat. They’re easy to cook from frozen too, so in my mind that makes them a perfect Christmas Day breakfast option.

Ingredients

225 g full fat cream cheese
15 g fresh dill, finely chopped
zest of

Fish course
Snack
Pescatarian
Christmas
December

Method

Preheat the oven to 220°C/200°C fan. Line two baking trays with baking paper.

In a small bowl, beat together the cream cheese, dill and lemon zest and season with salt and pepper. Unroll the puff pastry, keeping it on the sheet of baking paper it comes with, and flatten it with