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Prosciutto and Spinach Pinwheels

2007, Robert Irvine, All rights reserved

Prep Time:
30 min
Inactive Prep Time:
50 min
Cook Time:
1 hr 5 min
Level:
Intermediate
Serves:
20 appetizers

Ingredients

1 large red bell pepper
2 sheets puff pastry dough (often sold in 17 or 18-ounce packages containing 2 (9 or 10-inch) square sheets
puff pastry)
8 slices prosciutto ham
12 leaves fresh spinach
1/4 cup shredded Cheddar
1/8 cup Parmesan
2 eggs, beaten for egg wash

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Place the pepper in a
roasting pan and roast in the oven, checking every 15 minutes, and turning with tongs until the skin is fully
wrinkled and charred black. When the peppers is done, use tongs to put it into a ziptop bag which (for safety
reasons) you have resting on a plate - (Remember, it is volcanically hot!). Carefully zip the bag shut, and
allow the pepper to sweat for 5 minutes. Use oven mitts to prevent getting burned while you handle the bag in
the next step of sliding the pepper from the bag into a bowl filled with a couple of inches of ice water. You
can then use your fingers to work quickly to slip off and discard the skin of the pepper while it is in the
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Prosciutto and Spinach Pinwheels

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water. You will be left with a beautifully cooked red pepper with a wonderful color. Cut open the pepper and
remove seeds. Slice it into strips and set aside.

Roll out each puff pastry sheet and on the surface of each of the 2 sheets evenly arrange 4 slices of
prosciutto ham, 6 spinach leaves, half of the red pepper strips, 1/8-cup Cheddar, and 1 tablespoon Parmesan.
Roll up the dough "jelly roll" style into a log (so the cross-section of the roll will be a spiral design, the
"pinwheel"). Place the logs in the freezer for 50 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Remove "pinwheel" logs and from freezer and cut into 1/2-inch thick slices and
place on a baking sheet. Brush with egg wash. Bake until golden brown, approximately 15 minutes.
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