Grilled Brie Bites
The savoriness from brie cheese and sweetness from homemade cranberry sauce, these grilled brie bites are sure to bring some cheer at the next Holiday party.
Servings: 12 People
Ingredients
- 1 pkg Pillsbury crescent dough
- 8 oz Brie cheese
- 4 Slices of prosciutto
Homemade Cranberry Sauce
- 2 cups Fresh cranberries
- 2 cups Water
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 tbsp Orange zest
- 1/2 Orange - freshly squeezed juice
- 1/2 Cinnamon stick
- 1/4 tsp Ground clove spice
Instructions
Homemade Cranberry Sauce Instructions
- In a sauce pan, pour in 2 cups of fresh cranberries, sugar and water. Simmer it over low heat reducing the fruit to a jam like chunky consistency.
- Add some orange zest and freshly squeezed juice from half an orange.
- Add some ground cloves and half a cinnamon stick. Continue to simmer mixing in the spices together with the sauce.
- Once the sauce has thickened, set aside to cool while you start prep on the pastry.
Grilled Brie Bite Instructions
- Remove the crescent dough from its rolled package and close the perforated slots by pinching the dough together.
- With a pizza or dough cutter, cut out 2x2 inch squares. You can also punch out round circles using a 2.5 inch in diameter cup.
- Cube up the Brie cheese into small 0.5 inch squares.
- Using a mini muffin pan, in each pocket, place 1 piece of pastry dough followed by a piece of brie cheese and cover with a teaspoon of the homemade cranberry sauce you made earlier.
- Preheat the grill to 350 degrees for indirect heat and bake for about 10minutes or until you see a nice golden brown on the pastry.
- While the pastries are baking, quickly crisp up some prosciutto and dice itup into small sprinkles.
Nutrition
Calories: 148kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.003g | Cholesterol: 21mg | Sodium: 140mg | Potassium: 55mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 130IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 40mg | Iron: 0.2mg
