Lightened Up Pesto Chicken Pastry Flowers
Serves 12
20 mins prep
25 mins cook
45 mins total
Pesto Chicken Pastry Flowers are light and buttery, but filled with healthful ingredients - shredded chicken, low-fat spinach-walnut pesto, and nutritional yeast. A pretty and pretty delicious way to satisfy your pastry cravings.
Preheat the oven to 400°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Make pastry dough according to recipe in notes or use store brought puff pastry (more calories!).
Make pesto according to recipe in notes while dough chills.
Roll out pastry dough into a 9 x 9” sheet about ⅛” thick.
Cut into 6 equal-width strips of 1½” each.
Divide and spread pesto down the middle of each strip, leaving ¼” from the ends. Top with shredded chicken and nutritional yeast or parmesan.
Starting from the short end, carefully roll up the pastry strips into spiral logs.
Slice into half to make 2 rounds.
Brush with egg wash and place on prepared baking sheet with the tighter end (the one that was cut) as the base. Spread out the ¼” open end of the pastry to make a flower shape.
Bake for 12-15 minutes or until pastry is golden-brown.
