Spelt Puffs with Basil flavoured Cheese Filling

Name: Spelt Puffs with Basil flavoured Cheese Filling
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 1 batch
Ingredients: 50 g butter; 150 g fine spelt flour; 4 eggs; 150 g farmer cheese; 1/4 cup whipped cream; basil leaves; 1/2 clove pressed garlic, juice from; 1 teaspoon coarse salt; 1 -2 teaspoon lemon juice; 250 ml water

Submitted by Missy Wombat

"Spelt is an old cereal developed from the original wheat varieies of einkorn and emmer.Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th century abbess and mystic, regarded spelt as the best cereal"

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Ingredients:: 10
Yields:: 1 batch

ingredients

50 g butter
150 g fine spelt flour
4 eggs
150 g farmer cheese
¹⁄₄ cup whipped cream
basil leaves
¹⁄₂ clove pressed garlic, juice from
1 teaspoon coarse salt
1 -2 teaspoon lemon juice
250 ml water

directions

Bring 250 ml salted water to he boil with the butter.
Tip in he spelt flour and stir vigorously until the batter has thickened and is pulling away from the sides and bottom of the pan.
Remove the pan from the heat.
Slowly stir in the eggs.
The dough should stick to the mixing spoon.
Cover a baking tray with parchment paper.
With an icing bag pipe small balls of dough on to the parchment paper.
Preheat the oven to 375 deg F and bake for about 20 minutes.
Do NOT open the oven door while baking.
Then mix the farmer's cheese and the cream together.
chop he basil finely and add to the cheese and cream, then add the garlic juice.
Season to taste with the coarse salt and lemon juice.
Leave the pastry puffs to cool.
slit each one open and fill with the cheese mixture and replace any dough that has been removed once they are full.

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Missy Wombat

Australia

I'm an ex-pat NZer living in the tropical Top End of Australia. Which makes it a perfect place to make homemade bread and summer recipes all year around. I experiment on my 3 kids who have grown up trying new Zaar recipes every other day and they are thriving. I'm the lacto-ovo vegetarian in the family and somehow I got roped in to become a Forum Host here at Zaar. So check out the Vegetarian and Vegan Forum http://www.recipezaar.com/bb/viewforum.zsp?f=43 and feel free to join in whether you are a fully fledged vegan or someone who needs to cater for a vegetarian and has no idea where to start. Every year I try to do something a bit different to push the envelope a little bit. In 2005 I learned how to sail a dinghy; 2006's grand passion is mosaics. Check out my blog! Between raising three children, working almost fulltime and trying to pursue my hobbies...let's say that my time management skills have greatly improved over the years! I am also very interested in living a sustainable lifestyle. Essentially I'm finding that I'm getting back to the country lifestyle I enjoyed in my childhood even though these days I live in themiddle of suburbia. To this end I have started gardening although I am a total gardening virgin when it comes to gardening in a tropical climate. I also have a cookbook with a number of recipes you can make from scratch. Living clean and green is good for you AND cheaper!

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