Pear & Brie Cheese Pastry Squares

This Pear & Brie Cheese Pastry Square recipe is easy. delicious, crunchy! A crowd pleaser that can be put together in less than an hour.

Recipe

Ingredients

(for 8 servings)

• 500g Phyllo pastry ​

• 250g Brie cheese ​

• 3 Ripened pears ​

• 2 Tbsp Doublecream plain yoghurt​

• 4 large Eggs ​

• 10g Let’s Cook Fresh Thyme

• 3 Tbsp honey ​

• 50g LiveWell pecans (chopped & toasted​)

• Salt and Pepper for seasoning

Preparation

1. Fold the phyllo pastry in 3 layers thick into a concertina shape as shown on the video. Stack into your baking dish.​

2. Thinly slice the pear and brie cheese stacking this into the folds of the pastry in your baking dish.​

3. Drizzle with olive oil.​

4. Whisk the eggs and yoghurt and then pour over the dish.​

5. Season with salt and pepper and add the desalted thyme.​

6. Bake at 160 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown and crispy.​

7. Drizzle with honey and top with pecan nuts.​

8. Serve immediately.

About Shawn Godfrey

Shawn Godfrey is an entrepreneur based in Cape Town, South Africa. After the Covid-19 lockdown saw his business in financial distress, cooking was the creative outlet that helped to keep him sane. To keep track of his recipes, and encourage friends and families to join him, he starts his instagram account The Roasted Dad.

Fast-forward to late 2021 - on a whim Shawn (encouraged by his wife Lianne) enters MasterChef South Africa. It is a crazy time of life: running a 200 people business and struggling to keep it profitable, two small children with a third on the way, and about to move into a new house. But when Shawn gets selected to be one of the 20 contestants participating in the fourth season of MasterChef South Africa, he decides to go all in. Leaving his 7-month-pregnant wife to look after their then three and one-year-old children, he battles it out and comes back home five weeks later with the trophy and a million rand prize money in his pocket.

It all started with an Instagram account, but The Roasted Dad is so much more now. Shawn has stayed his entrepreneurial self and whilst he hosts Private Dinner Parties and Cook-with-Me Demos, does Restaurant Take-Overs, he still runs the lighting company and several other businesses.

On his blog, Shawn shares Restaurant Reviews and Accommodation Reviews, and gives an insight into the wild and wonderful life he leads together with his wife Lianne, and their three children Aiden (6), Olivia (4) and Harvey (2).

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