Use my jam or salsa to make a quick and delicious appetizer with Athen’s Mini Phyllo Shells, which you can find in the freezer section at HEB near the pie crusts and ice cream.
Preheat your oven to 325F. Place a small piece of Brie, goat cheese, or your preferred melting cheese into each phyllo cup, top with a spoonful of jam or salsa. Arrange the filled cups on a baking sheet and bake for 5 minutes.
Serve warm and enjoy a flavorful bite that’s perfect for entertaining or snacking. These can be made as mini desserts too!
- Blend your favorite jam with milk, fresh fruit and yogurt
- Serve jam on cream cheese and crackers
- Use the jam as a glaze for pork or chicken; or add it to BBQ sauce
- Liven up cheesecake with a dollop of jam on top
- Gently warm up jam to thin it and pour over ice cream
- Stir into cottage cheese or yogurt
- Serve some jam with sliced up fruit
- Put a spoonful in a bowl of oatmeal
- Add jam to vanilla or plain yogurt
- Cover a wheel of brie cheese with puff pastry & bake
- Stir jam into icing for a different kind of cake topping
- Mix into pancake batter
- Make a jam tart: fill individual pastry tartlets with jam, bake & serve with ice cream
- Jammy Muffins: half fill muffin cups, spoon some jam over, then add batter on top and bake.
- Use jam as a crepe filling
- Add to your favorite smoothie
- Mix jam with oil, vinegar and any spices & use as a sweet salad dressing (warm jam so it’s can blend)
- Drizzle warmed-up jam over hot and spicy wings
- Spread jam over chicken breasts or pork before removing from the grill or oven (you may want to warm the jam so it will drizzle better). Apply the last 2 minutes of cooking so it doesn’t burn.
- Use salsa on meats, tacos or as a marinade – take a dollop or two, gently warm in a pan and drizzle over your protein