Christmas savory biscuits

 

Are you looking for an easy and quick solution to enhance your festive appetizers? Leave the industrial cookies in the cupboard and opt for the realization of exquisite savory biscuits ! The advantage with the following recipe is that you will be able to make industrial quantities of salted biscuits and store them in the freezer so that you only have to take them out on the day.

It is better than making a pate and applying on bread toasts .

These Christmas shortbreads can be stored easily for 3 days in an iron box. Do not hesitate to prepare in larger quantities to be able to freeze them and dispose of them at your convenience. They thaw very quickly. You can put them in the oven for 2 minutes if necessary to give them again their crispness.



 Cooking time  ; 20 minutes

 Total time  ; 50 minutes

 Portions ; 30 pieces


Ingredients

160 g plain flour

4 g of salt or half a teaspoon of fine salt

90 g butter

160 g grated Gruyere or mozarella 

1 egg yolk

30 g olive oil

 sprigs of fresh thyme


For gilding and finishing

1 egg, beaten 

Instructions

Mix the flour and salt. Mix with the tempered butter cut into small pieces. Add the grated  cheese, olive oil, thyme leaves and egg yolk. Mix so as to form a homogeneous ball but without kneading the dough too much. Flatten it slightly, wrap it in cling film and let it sit in the fridge for an hour .

Roll out the dough with a rolling pin to a thickness of about 2 mm.  Cut out shapes of your choice. Gather the scraps to form a ball of dough again. Roll out again and cut out shapes. And so on until all the dough is used up.

Place the shapes on baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Apply the gilding with a brush. Bake for about 20 minutes of cooking at 160 ° C.

Let cool on a rack and store your salted biscuits in a metal box.


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