Christmas tree made of puff pastry

Tasty Christmas tree made of puff pastry and filled with a tasty filling of spinach, almonds and parmesan cheese. A nice dish for a visitor that is quickly ready.

Ingredients:

• 1 puff pastry
• 6 tbsp thawed frozen spinach
• 4 tbsp ground almonds
• 4 tbsp grated parmesan + 1 tbsp for sprinkling
• 2 garlic cloves
• salt, black pepper
• egg yolk for spreading

Preparing:

• Roll out the puff pastry and divide it in the middle into 2 equal parts.
• Put the thawed spinach in a sieve to drain off the excess liquid and then put it in a bowl with the ground almonds and parmesan cheese, mix.
• Add 2 crushed garlic cloves and season the mixture with salt (salt carefully as parmesan is already a salty kind of cheese) and black pepper.
• Then spread the spinach mixture on one part of the dough and cover it with the other part of the dough.
• Cut off the corners of the dough to form a triangle at the top and cut out the bottom part to form a tree trunk. Afterwards cut the ‘halves’ horizontally, but cut them only 2/3 of the way through to keep the tree trunk intact.
• Transfer the dough to a baking tray lined with baking paper.
• Twist each part of tree as pn the picture afterwards.
• Brush the prepared tree with the egg yolk and sprinkle the trunk with the remaining Parmesan cheese.
• Bake at 200C approx. 20 minutes until golden.