Salmon Pastries with Dill Pesto

Description

Each little appetizer bundle is bursting with salmon and cheesy-dill flavors.

Ingredients

  • ½ cup lightly packed chopped fresh dill weed
  • ⅓ cup CRISCO® Light Olive Oil
  • ¼ cup Fisher® Chef’s Naturals® Chopped Walnuts
  • ¼ cup fresh lime juice
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
  • ⅔ cup shredded Parmesan cheese
  • 1 pinch Salt and pepper, if desired
  • ¾ pound salmon fillet, thawed if frozen and patted dry
  • 1 (15 ounce) package Pillsbury® refrigerated pie crust, softened as directed on box
  • 3 sprigs Dill weed sprigs

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 400 degrees F. In food processor bowl with metal blade or in blender
  2. place chopped dill weed
  3. oil
  4. walnuts
  5. lime juice
  6. garlic
  7. mustard
  8. 1/2 cup of the cheese
  9. the salt and pepper. Cover; process
  10. stopping once to scrape side of bowl
  11. until smooth.
  12. If salmon has skin or bones
  13. remove them; rinse fillet and pat dry with paper towel. Cut salmon into 24 (1-inch) cubes.
  14. On cutting board
  15. roll 1 pie crust into 12-inch round. Cut into 4 rows by 3 rows to make 12 (4×3-inch) rectangles. Repeat with remaining crust. (Rectangles cut at edge of crust will have rounded side.)
  16. Spoon 1 level teaspoon dill pesto onto center of each rectangle; top with 1 salmon cube. Bring 4 corners of each rectangle over filling to center and pinch at top; pinch corners
  17. leaving small openings on sides to vent steam. (For rectangles with rounded side
  18. bring 3 points together at top
  19. pinching to seal.) On ungreased large cookie sheet
  20. place pastries 1 inch apart.
  21. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown.
  22. Place remaining pesto in small resealable food-storage plastic bag. Cut small tip off 1 bottom corner of bag; squeeze bag to drizzle pesto over serving plate. Place pastries on serving plate. Sprinkle pastries with remaining cheese and garnish with dill weed sprigs. Serve warm.

Servings: 24

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