Blue cheese filo bites with pears and pecan

These quick and easy blue cheese canapés are the ideal last-minute festive snack recipe, with crispy filo encasing pecans, pear and Stilton.

📝 Ingredients

• 225 g of pears, tinned, drained weight
• 5 filo pastry sheets
• 50 g of butter
• 100 g of Stilton
• 20 pecan nuts

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4
2. 2Drain the pears, cut into small cubes and set aside until needed
3. 3Cut the filo pastry sheets into small squares, so that they fit into the holes of a muffin tin
4. 4Melt the butter and use a little to grease one muffin hole. Lay a filo square into the hole, brush with more melted butter, then top with another filo square
5. 5Repeat the process one more time, so that you end up with three buttered filo layers
6. 6Lay a few pear cubes onto the filo pastry, so that the bottom is covered. Fill the remaining muffin holes with buttered filo pastry and pears
7. 7Once all of the muffin holes are filled, crumble some Stilton over the pears and decorate each filo basket with a whole pecan nut. Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes
8. 8Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes before serving