Pesto Chicken Pinwheels
These tasty chicken and pesto pinwheels are perfect for many occasion - lunch, picnics, school lunchboxes - and are fabulous hot or cold.
Whip up a little batch of these for lunch or dinner and the kids will thank you, you might even thank yourself. Add a jacket potato and a green salad and you are looking to be in great shape. An oldie but a goldie...you’re welcome.
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Need
- 50 Grams Parmesan, cubed
- 2-3 cloves garlic
- 80 Grams pine nuts, toasted
- Handfuls basil leaves
- 50 Grams semi sundried tomatoes
- 30 Grams lemon juice, fresh
- 20 Grams Umami Paste Recipe
- 1 Tablespoon pink salt flakes BUY
- 400 Grams chicken thigh fillet, diced
- 2 Puff Pastry ready to roll Recipe
- Handfuls baby spinach leaves
- Handfuls pitted Kalamata olives
- Egg wash
Do
- 1
Preheat oven to 180ºC. Line a baking tray with baking paper and set aside.
- 2
Place cheese and garlic into Thermomix bowl and mill 8 sec/speed 8. Scrape down sides of bowl.
- 3
Add pine nuts, basil, tomatoes, lemon juice, Umami and salt and blend 5 sec/speed 5.
- 4
Add chicken and mince 7 sec/Reverse/speed 8.
- 5
Divide mixture between pastry sheets and spread to cover approximately half of each sheet. Top with spinach and olives. Fold remaining pastry on top of the mixture, then from open edged side, roll up into a fat sausage roll shape, with pastry through centre.
- 6
Cut through the roll making 5 pinwheels per roll. Place cut side up on prepared tray, brush with egg wash and bake for 30-35 minutes until golden.
- 7
Serve with a green salad and jacket potatoes.
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
