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Cheese Roll

Name: Cheese Roll
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: Guyana
Ingredients: 2 sheets (frozen) Puff Pastry; 200g Cheddar Cheese; 20g Butter; 1 tsp Mustard; 1/2 Chili pepper; 1 Egg

Snack

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 12

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Chili-spiked cheese rolled in thin pastry and baked — a Guyanese party staple.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Cheese rolls are an essential snack at Guyanese birthdays and parties: a paste of grated cheddar mixed with chili and mustard is rolled in thinly rolled pastry into slim tubes and baked. A pastry shop staple too, it's one of the tastes Guyanese abroad miss most.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Guyanese child's birthday party, slim cheese pastries are heaped on a big platter as children reach for one after another.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 12)

Puff Pastry 2 sheets (frozen)
Cheddar Cheese 200g
Butter 20g
Mustard 1 tsp
Chili pepper 1/2
Egg 1

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Grate the cheddar and mix with softened butter, mustard, and finely chopped chili into a paste.
Roll the pastry thin and cut into 8×10cm rectangles.
Place a strip of cheese paste along the near edge and roll into a slim tube.
Place seam side down on a baking sheet and brush with beaten egg.
Bake at 200°C for 15–20 minutes.

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