Puff Pastry Fruit Slice

Cook 20 min

Ingredients

  • 213g (7½oz) puff pastry
  • 10ml (2 tsp) banana, mashed
  • 1 pear, peeled, cored, halved and sliced
  • 28g (1oz) sultanas
  •   canned pineapple rings, chopped
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 15ml (1 tbsp) apricot jam, melted

Method

  1. Roll out the pastry into a 30cm (12") square, cut in half to form two rectangles.
  2. Mix the banana, lemon juice, pear, sultanas and pineapple.
  3. Place one piece of pastry on a baking tray, arrange the fruit mixture on top leaving 1cm (½") around the edge.
  4. Brush the edges with beaten egg. Top with the other pastry rectangle and seal edges well.
  5. Brush with beaten egg and cut slits 1cm (½") apart through the top pastry layer.
  6. Bake at Gas Mark 7 for 15–20 minutes.
  7. When cooked, brush immediately with melted apricot jam. Serve hot or cold.

Notes

Concentrated apple or pear juice may be used to replace the apricot jam.