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Tuna and Red Pepper Pastry Parcels

Course Pastry
Cuisine Lebanese
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings 8
Author Marita

Ingredients

For the Filling

  • 6 to matoes
  • 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • 1 red pepper diced,
  • 1 onion finely chopped
  • 200 gr tuna in olive oil drained
  • 100 g pitted olives optional
  • 2 hard boiled eggs chopped
  • 1 small handful flat-leaf parsley chopped
  • 2 egg yolks
  • sesame seeds
  • salt and freshly ground pepper.

For the pastry

  • One pack of shop bought puff pastry

Instructions

  • Line a baking sheet with baking parchment.
  • Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius
  • In a little saucepan; bring some water to boil and place the tomatoes in for a few seconds. Immediately place them in some cold water and the skinning should peal of easily. Remove the tomatoes seeds and dice the flesh. Set aside
  • Heat the olive oil in a frying pan and cook the red pepper and onion together for about 10 minutes, until soft. Add the tomatoes and cook for a further 5 minutes over a medium heat, until the liquid evaporates.
  • Allow to cool before adding the tuna, olives, hard-boiled eggs and parsley. Mix well, taste and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
  • Roll out the pastry into a large rectangle.
  • If you want to form them into triangles, cut them in squares. Or if you would like to achieve a half moon shape, like in the pictures, use a large pastry cutter (about 10 cm in diameter) to cut circles.
  • Using your finger, rub the border of each pastry with a little egg yolk, then fold over and seal by pressing down with your finger or prongs of a fork. Add a teaspoon of cold water to the remaining egg yolk and brush over the Boereks. Sprinkle with sesame seeds.
  • Bake for about 30 minutes until golden and crisp. Cool on a wire rack and eat at room temperature.