This delicious shrimp puff pastry recipe with it’s buttery shrimp filling nestled inside a miniature homemade pastry shell is a surprisingly easy appetizer to make.
Tasty Mini Shrimp Puff Pastry
With it’s dense white meat and mild flavor, shrimp for many is a seafood favorite. It can be combined with a variety of different ingredients making unique, tasty dishes such as our simple and savory shrimp scampi. To make meal planning simpler, buy shrimp already cleaned, deveined and shelled.
Baked inside mini muffin tins, these shrimp puff pastries are the perfect bite-sized appetizer.
Shrimp Puff Pastry Ingredients
Ingredients for making 2 dozen miniature shrimp puff pastries.
Pastry Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup butter, cut into pieces
- 6 tbsp light cream cheese
Filling
- 2 cups shrimp, deveined and shells removed, cut in to cubes
- 2 tbsp butter
- ¾ cup onion, finely chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, chopped
- 2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped
- 1 cup water
- 1.5 tbsp flour
- Salt and pepper to taste
Making a Shrimp Puff Pastry Appetizer
Preheat the oven to 375F.
Preparing the Pastry
In a mixer, combine flour, butter and cream cheese.
Mix until dough forms a ball and cleans the sides of the bowl.
Wrap dough in plastic wrap and chill for 15 minutes.
Prepare the Filling
Add butter, onion and garlic and parsley to the pan on stove top. Saute for 2 to 3 minutes.
Add the shrimp, along with some salt and pepper and mix together. Saute for another 1 minute.
Combine cool water with flour until you have a smooth milky mixture.
Add the flour water mixture to the pan, stir together a few times and put aside to cool before filling cups.
Assembling the Shrimp Puff Pastry
Remove dough from the fridge and shape dough into 2 dozen 1-inch balls. Place each in a paper-lined or greased miniature (1 ¾”-inch) muffin cup. Press dough on bottom and sides of each cup.
Scoop 1 tbsp of the cool shrimp filling and place inside each cup.
Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown and filling is set. Cool in pans on a wire rack before serving.
Savory Shrimp Puff Pastry
Ingredients
Pastry
- 1 cup flour, all purpose
- 1/2 cup butter
- 6 tbsp cream cheese, light
Filling
- 2 cups shrimp, cubed
- 2 tbsp butter
- 3/4 cup onion, finely chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, chopped
- 2 tbsp parsley, coarsely chopped
- 1 cup water
- 1.5 tbsp flour, all purpose
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Prepare the Pastry
- In a mixer, combine flour, butter and cream cheese.
- Mix until dough forms a ball and cleans the sides of the bowl.
- Wrap dough in plastic wrap and chill for 15 minutes.
Prepare the Filling
- Add butter, onion and garlic and parsley to the pan on stove top. Saute for 2 to 3 minutes.
- Add the shrimp, along with some salt and pepper and mix together. Saute for another 1 minute.
- Combine cool water with flour until you have a smooth milky mixture.
- Add the flour water mixture to the pan, stir together a few times and put aside to cool before filling cups.
Assembling the Shrimp Puff Pastry
- Remove dough from the fridge and shape dough into 2 dozen 1-inch balls. Place each in a paper-lined or greased miniature (1 ¾”-inch) muffin cup.
- Press dough on bottom and sides of each cup.
- Scoop 1 tbsp of the cool shrimp filling and place inside each cup.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown and filling is set.
- Cool in pans on a wire rack.
Nutrition
Other Appetizer Recipes you May Like:
- Easy Meat and Cheese Deli Tray
- Sliced Tomatoes with Basil, Garlic and Olive Oil
- Mini Cheese Ball
- Classic Homestyle Chicken Wings
Easy Deli Tray 
Cheese Balls 
Classic Chicken Wings 
Sliced Tomatoes
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How did you get the pretty design for the pastry?
Hi Judine. We used a scalloped cookie cutter to cut out the rounds similar to these on Amazon (our referal link): https://amzn.to/3fq3439.
Kind regards,
Jane