Cheese – Ham – Snails

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 550 g wheat flour (type 405)
• 50 g flour (spelt or whole wheat flour)
• 300 ml milk, lukewarm
• 130 g butter, melted, lukewarm
• 1 tsp, heaped salt
• 1 tsp, levelled sugar
• 1 packet of dry yeast
• 2 spring onions, cut into rings
• 300 g cheese, grated
• 200 g ham (e.g. Black Forest), sliced
• 1 tsp tomato paste
• 300 g cream cheese with herbs
• some pepper
• 3 tbsp milk
• possibly parsley or 8-herb mixture
• some olive oil

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Rest time approx. 1 hour; Total time approx. 1 hour 30 minutes

Yeast snails for the party or as a main course

For the dough, mix the flour with sugar, salt, and dried yeast. Add the lukewarm butter and milk, and knead vigorously for a few minutes. Then let it rise in a warm place for one hour. After this time, knead the dough again and then roll it out into a rectangle about three times as long as it is wide. For the topping, mix the spring onions (sautéed in a little olive oil), the tomato paste, and 3 tablespoons of milk with the cream cheese until smooth. Add a little freshly ground pepper to taste. If the cream cheese itself isn’t already generously seasoned with delicious herbs, you can also add some parsley or an 8-herb mixture. Spread the mixture over the dough, leaving a 1 cm gap at the top. Next, add the topping: First, place the ham slices on top, then sprinkle with the cheese. I usually use about 100g of savory cheese (e.g., Bergkäse) and 200g of milder cheese (e.g., Gouda). Now carefully roll up the dough sheet from the wide side and seal the end. Using a sharp knife, cut slices (approx. 3 cm thick) and arrange them in the shape of snails on two baking sheets. Bake them (only one baking sheet with top/bottom heating) at 180 degrees Celsius for about 25 minutes. They taste best warm and fresh, but they’re still good cold and a day old. Unfortunately, I don’t recommend freezing them. This batch is enough for four hungry people for dinner, and of course, for more people as a buffet item.