Breakfast Strudel

Melissa made this for a work breakfast party. They sounds so yummy and she says that they were an absolute hit! She made up a Sausage, Mushroom, Swiss AND a Ham, Bacon and Cheddar. YUMMY! 

 

From: Melissa

 

I made adjustments to the ingredients for variety:

 

1 Box puff pastry

2 Tbl butter

1 Cup frozen cubed hash browns

1 Cup red/green peppers seeded and diced (I mixed them)

1/2 Cup diced onion (I omitted that)

1 Cup ham diced (you can use other pre-cooked meats if desired)

2 Tbl minced chives

1 Cup cheddar cheese (or cheese of chioce)

4 0z. cream cheese

2 Tbl orange juice

1 egg

1 Tbl water

2-4 Tbl grated parmesan cheese

 

Preheat oven to 400'

Thaw pastry (about 30 min)

Melt butter in large nonstick skillet over med-high heat. Add hash browns saute 5 min.

Stir in peppers and onion; saute 3 min, then add meat. (if you're not using peppers and onions skip that step and add the meats after you sauted the potatoes.

 

Whisk eggs and chives together. Add them to the pan and scramble just until set. Season with salt and pepper. I added about 1/2 cup cheese to the scramble mixture at this point. Remove from heat let stand 5-10 min and fold in cream cheese and orange juice.

 

Unfold the pastry sheet on parchment paper dusted lightly with flour. Trim corners off the top of pastry and a triangle out of the bottom corner of pastry. Them cut from folds to edges 5-7 strips for the braiding of the pastry. (this sounds hard but it's not) Then place half of the scramble mixture onto the middle section of pasty. Then braid strips over the scramble mixture alternating them to the bottom. I then placed my trimmed corners over the ends.

Brush with egg wash mixture (1 egg + 1 Tbl water) and top with parmesan cheese. Bake on parchment paper, on cookie sheet 30 minutes.