Hojaldra is the spanish word for puff pastry. This Hojaldra is a typical southern mexico recipe, from Yucatan and it is sorth of a tradition family recipe that has a very special place in my heart, is one of those lazy-sunday lunch dishes that fits any ocassion.
The filling works great for kids and with a nice salad you have a complete meal in a few minutes!
Ingredients:
- 600gr puff pastry, divided
- 15 thin slices of ham (any ham will do here)
- 15 slices of cheddar cheese
- 2 tablespoons of sugar
Directions:
- Grease a square baking platter. Preheat the oven at 200ºC
- Kneed the pastry into to large squares (just a bit smaller than your baking platter). Keep the pastry moist.
- Place one of the pastry squares on the platter and layer the ham and cheese on top leaving a few mm on the sides free.
- Cover with the remaining pastry and fold in the sides (you can even use a fork to make them stick to each other)
- Sprinkle the sugar on top of the upper side pastry and bake for 30 minutes or until golden.
- Cut into small squares and serve either warm or cold.
What kind of puff pastery do you normally use??
ReplyDeleteI use any store bought I can find really, you can also
Deletemake it from scratch but the frozen ones work really good! ;)
You are awesome! I've been searching for something like this thanks!!! :)
ReplyDeleteWe used to get these in a little place in Akumal in Mexico. They were freshly baked every morning, and if you weren't there early enough you were out of luck! Hope mine come out as tasty!
ReplyDeleteAt the Super Chomak General Store!!! So good. I walked there almost every morning for one.
DeleteOhh my granda came back from yucatan and brought one and it was so good. Definitely going to make. Were doing cochinita pibil on sunday so itll be a nice surprise
ReplyDeleteI saw Rick Bayless make one with the addition of sliced guava paste...looked yum
ReplyDeleteYou can't find hojaldras in the panaderias in norte Mexico
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