Need a simple but tasty recipe for the kids this Christmas? Then try the Cheesy Puff Pastry Stars with Vegetable Soup. This delicious soup is easy to make and fun to prepare during the holiday season of Christmas.
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Simple Cheese Stars and Perfect Soup
Christmas is a magical time to gather with friends and family. So make it extra special by enriching your Christmas meals with a flavorful, clear vegetable soup served with Cheese stars. Kids will love this tasty, easy recipe.
The creamy broccoli cappuccino didn't appeal to my kids. Or, instead, not at all. Tomato soup or a broth, but you can always warm them up for that. So this year, they get a delicious vegetable soup with homemade cheese stars as an extra. In any case, it was eaten with great taste at the test dinner. And you already had to make the vegetable broth for this Christmas dinner anyway, so it doesn't take any extra work.
What do you need?
In the recipe card below, you will find the full list of ingredients, but here are some handy tips:
- Vegetable broth: A vegetable broth is quickly made and is the ideal way to process leftovers. Full of flavor! This is a delicious recipe for homemade vegetable stock.
- Puff Pastry: This recipe uses slices of butter puff pastry, which gives it an airy, crunchy crust. The sheets used are 4 x 4 inch (10 x 10 cm). You can use fresh or frozen puff pastry, but remember to thaw.
- Grated cheese: Use Gouda cheese. But Cheddar, Gruyère, or Emmentaler are also great choices.
- Egg: Brush the top of the puff pastry so that it turns a nice golden yellow, and the cheese sticks.
- Parsley: For a beautiful touch of crispness and freshness in the soup.
- Sea Salt: Sprinkle the puff pastry with sea salt for even more flavor. Coarse sea salt is delicious.
How to Prepare in Two Easy Steps
You can find a printable recipe with a step-by-step description at the bottom of this blog.
- Place the slices of puff pastry in front of you and cut out poinsettias with a cookie cutter. Place on a baking tray lined with baking paper and brush with beaten egg.
- Sprinkle the puff pastry with grated cheese and salt. Bake in a preheated oven at 430 °F (ca. 221 °C) for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, heat the soup and pour it into cups. Divide some finely chopped parsley over the cups and serve with the cheese puff pastry stars.
This is part of the Children's Christmas menu that starts with a delicious amuse-bouche with ham and cranberries, mini Christmas pizzas as a starter, this soup with cheese puff pastry stars as the main course, and a beautiful and delicious Christmas dessert with strawberries for the kids.
Top Tips
- Because you are making soup for children, you use about one teaspoon of salt per 4 ½ cups (1 liter). Usually, you use one teaspoon of salt per 2 cups (500 ml) as a guideline.
- Do you want to prepare your dinner as much as possible in advance? Make the pastry stars and pre-bake them in the oven at 390 °F (200 °C) for 5 minutes. Before the soup, you only have to preheat them in the oven (about 5 minutes in an oven at 350 °F (ca. 180 °C)).
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📖 Recipe
RECIPE CARD
Ingredients
- 5 sheets puff pastry, thawed (4 x 4 inch / 10 x 10 cm)
- 1 egg, size S, lightly beaten
- 2 oz. Gouda cheese, grated
- ⅛ teaspoon sea salt
- 4½ cups vegetable broth
- 5 sprigs Fresh Parsley, finely chopped
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Instructions
Cheesy Puff Pastry Stars
- Preheat the oven to
390 °F or 350 °C - Line a baking tray with baking paper.
- With a cookie cutter (star form) slice the puff pastry. And put each cut-out star on the baking sheet.5 sheets puff pastry
- Continue until all the dough is used.
- Brush the stars with the egg.1 egg
- Put some cheese on top of the puff pastry stars.2 oz. Gouda cheese
- Sprinkle with salt.⅛ teaspoon sea salt
- Bake for about 10 minutes in the oven (until golden brown).
Vegetable Soup
- Heat the vegetable soup and season with salt and pepper.4½ cups vegetable broth
- Spoon some soup in a bowl and sprinkle with the parsley.5 sprigs Fresh Parsley
Serve
- Serve a bowl of vegetable soup with cheese stars.
Notes
- Room temperature: The puff pastry stars will soften and are best eaten right away. Do you still have some left over? Store them in an airtight box and heat them briefly in the Air fryer or oven to become crispy again.
- Refrigerator: Allow the soup to cool quickly and keep it covered in the fridge for up to two days.
- Freezer: Let the vegetable soup cool down quickly and pour it into a freezer box or bag. Ensure you leave enough space because the broth will expand when it freezes. This way, the vegetable broth can be kept for up to three months. Then, let the broth thaw in the refrigerator.
- Reheat: Heat the soup over medium heat until warm (but not boiling).
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Mandy Applegate says
The kids loved this broth! And it was so easy to make!
Amy Liu Dong says
This is so easy and looks really delicious!
I am my kids will love this!