Let the Good Flavors Roll: Muffuletta Puff Pastry Pinwheels!

Let the Good Flavors Roll for Mardi Gras with

Muffuletta Puff Pastry Pinwheels!

Inspired by the quintessential New Orleans sandwich of cured meats, cheese and tangy olive salad, these pinwheels are a quick and easy appetizer to throw together for a taste of the Big Easy to celebrate Mardi Gras, or anytime you need a savory appetizer to serve with cocktails!

Best served warm from the oven, they can be made ahead in a roll and refrigerated or frozen, sliced and baked later, a few at a time or by the roll! If you have puff pastry in the freezer, you can vary the fillings for these pinwheels, and I like to make one roll to serve and freeze one roll to have on hand for quick and easy appetizers.

Muffuletta Puff Pastry Pinwheels

If baking from frozen pull them out of the freezer 30 – 40 minutes before baking, slice them still slightly frozen (they’re easier to cut) then bake until golden brown.

This is super quick if your grocery store has an olive / antipasto bar where you can mix and match your olives or buy olive salad in the jar. 

Ingredients

1 box frozen Puff Pastry (2 sheets), thawed

Pitted olive mix or olive salad in oil, (from the olive bar at the grocery store) or substitute a mixture of green/black/spicy pitted olives with some Italian giardiniera (pickled vegetables).

Provolone cheese

Assorted traditional thinly sliced meats for a Muffuletta:  salami, capocollo, prosciutto, mortadella (I used Genoa salami and mortadella)

Mozzarella cheese if desired

Directions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.

Lightly flour a board and carefully unfold one sheet of puff pastry. Roll the pastry lightly with a rolling pin until it’s 9 1/2 by 11 1/2-inches. Pulse olive mixture in food processor until finely chopped.

Spread each sheet of puff pastry with half of the olive mixture. Layer meats and cheese(s) on top of olive layer. Roll up pastry into a log.

At this point you can wrap your puff pastry log with plastic wrap

and place in fridge until ready to bake or freeze.

With seam side down, cut into 1/2 inch slices and place on a parchment lined baking sheet about 2 inches apart.

Bake approximately 14 minutes or until golden brown.

Serve warm.

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Muffuletta Puff Pastry Pinwheels

Inspired by the quintessential New Orleans sandwich of cured meats, cheese and tangy olive salad, these pinwheels are a quick and easy appetizer to throw together for a taste of the Big Easy to celebrate Mardi Gras.

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time14 minutes mins

Course: Appetizer

Cuisine: American

Keyword: easy appetizer, mardi gras, muffuletta, olive mix, puff pastry

Servings: 24 pinwheels

Ingredients

• 1 box frozen puff pastry, thawed (2 sheets)
• 8 oz. Pitted olive mix/ olive salad in oil from the olive bar at the grocery store (or substitute a mixture of green/black/spicy pitted olives with some Italian giardiniera (pickled vegetables).
• 8 oz. pkg slice Provolone cheese
• 2 4 oz. pkg Assorted traditional thinly sliced meats for a Muffuletta such as salami, capocollo or mortadella
• Mozzarella if desired

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Lightly flour a board and carefully unfold one sheet of puff pastry. Roll the pastry lightly with a rolling pin until it's 9 1/2 by 11 1/2-inches. Pulse olive mixture in food processor until finely chopped.
• Spread each sheet of puff pastry with half of the olive mixture. Layer meats and cheese(s) on top of olive layer. Roll up pastry into a log. At this point you can wrap your puff pastry log with plastic wrap and place in fridge until ready to bake, or freeze.
• With seam side down, cut into ½ inch slices and place on a parchment lined baking sheet about 2 inches apart.
• Bake approximately 14 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm.

Notes

If baking from frozen pull them out of the freezer 30 - 40 minutes before baking, slice them still slightly frozen (they’re easier to cut) then bake until golden brown.

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Celebrate Mardi Gras with a King Cake Cocktail

Mardi Gras-Rita

Muffuletta Deviled Eggs

 Or Muffuletta Dip

Let the Good Flavors Roll and Happy Mardi Gras!

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