A traditional Italian Christmas menu probably doesn’t include finger food and snacks, but if you’re entertaining for people on Christmas Eve and still want something Italian, this parmesan and parma ham (or prosciutto crudo) snack could do the trick.
You’ll need some puff pastry for the base and then the ingredients for four people are: 80 grams of parma ham in one slice, 75 grams of grated parmesan cheese, two eggs, 200 ml of fresh cream, a bunch of celery leaves, 20 grams of walnuts, salt and pepper.
Create four discs from the puff pastry and put them into little pie tins with some oven paper.
Punch a couple of fork marks in the bottom of the pastry and then fill the pastry with dry lentils, so that the pastry doesn’t swell and lose its shape.
Cook in the oven for ten minutes at 200° C.
Get rid of the lentils and cook for another three minutes.
For the filling, separate the egg yolk from the white, and use only the yolk, mixing it with the cheese and cream.
Heat over boiling water to get a thick mixture, then add salt and pepper.
Fill the pastry pies with the cheese filling, and then cover with some prosciutto, the walnuts and chopped celery.
Serve luke warm.