
Yes, my dear readers, I have decided to start a weekly section here on my blog. It will be devoted to “Spanish Tapas” and it will take place every weekend, so if you think that the Tapa I post is yummy enough, you can cook it any weekend and make your loved ones go “yay!!” when they try the delicious Tapas I will post here
OK, so the first Tapa whose recipe I will post here for the general delight is “Mushroom and Shrimp Pasty” (Empanadillas de Setas y Gambas). Apart from the cooking time, it will take you around 25 minutes to cook this delicious dish, and you will need the following ingredients for 4 persons:
- 1 packet of frozen puff pastry.
- 4 spoonfuls of olive oil.
- 2 onions, chopped.
- 2 tomatoes, cubed.
- 1 green pepper, cubed.
- 250 g of varied mushrooms.
- salt.
- ground black pepper.
- 1 egg, hard-boiled.
- 100 g of peeled shrimps.
- 1/2 of grounded cayenne pepper.
- 1 egg yolk.
First you need to defrost the puff pastry. Pre-heat the oven (200ºC). Heat 2 spoonfuls of olive oil in a pan and lightly fry the onions. Add the tomatoes and the green pepper. Wash the mushrooms and chop them. Heat the rest of the olive oil in a pan and lightly fry the mushrooms over high heat. Add salt and ground black pepper.
Peel the hard-boiled egg and chop it, as well as the shrimps. Add the egg, the shrimps, and the mushrooms to the pan where the onions are, and season with the cayenne pepper. Fry all the ingredients over a low heat, stirring from time to time. Add salt and ground black pepper, and let it cool down.
Spread the puff pastry and cut 4 circles of around 15 cm in diameter. Place 1/4 of the filling in a half of each circle, and lightly wet the edges with water. Close the pasties and seal the edges thoroughly. Paint the pasties with the egg yolk, and bake them in the oven around 15 minutes.
You can eat them just like that, or you can accompany them with some nice salad. Enjoy!!