Mushroom Puffs

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I pinched this idea from a frozen food company advert. Don't buy them frozen, make 'em yourself! An impressive focus for a main course, or serve alone as a starter. Adjust the Stilton to suit your own taste, it can be overpowering if you use too much.

1T 15ml Oil
1 Onion, roughly chopped
1 Clove garlic, crushed
12oz 400g Spinach, stems removed
4 Large field mushrooms, peeled, stalks trimmed
6oz 150g Stilton, crumbled
1oz 25g Pinenuts, toasted
500g Puff pastry
1 size 3 Egg, beaten

Heat the oil in a sauce-pan and stir-fry the onion and garlic until soft. Wash the spinach and cook in the water that clings to the leaves in a saucepan with a tight fitting lid for 5 minutes. Drain and leave to cool. Stir the spinach, pinenuts and stilton into the onion and garlic. Season well and pack into the underside of each mushroom to form a pyramid. Chill.

Roll out the pastry into four squares and wrap the mushrooms, arranging the join like a rose bud.. Stick corners with egg and brush the tops.

Cook at 400F, 200C or Gas 6 for 15-20 minute or until golden.