Puff Pastry Strawberry Tart Recipe – Success From Failure

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This is how we came to produce our little Turkish breakfast sweet treat, puff pastry strawberry tart.

Or, to give it a Turkish name, çilekli milföy tatlısı.

Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together?

Well, actually, this is the story of a plan that didn’t come together.

But then, from that, a lovely little accidental strawberry delight was created.

Puff Pastry Recipe Experiments

You might remember, for our last recipe, we were playing around with puff pastry and we came up with savoury potato and spinach rolls.

Well, the puff pastry experiments didn’t stop there and poor Barry had constant heartburn, reminiscent of our pastry exploits in Eskişehir a few years back.

And then strawberry season kicked in and the local Fethiye strawberries were flying from the stalls of the Tuesday market.

Munching strawberry sandwiches, enjoying them just as they are, eating them for breakfast and then…hmm, I wonder if we can come up with a strawberry puff pastry recipe.

We looked online, and, of course, oodles of ideas popped up.

We don’t often go for the sweet option because we’ve not got a sweet tooth, but, in for a penny, in for a pound and all that.

A Plan Failed

I dutifully followed the recipe.

So confident was I that we were going to enjoy it, I even did extra puff pastry discs for it.

And then we tried one – and we didn’t like it.

So now, there we were with puff pastry discs all over the work surface and a tray of strawberries in the fridge.

The problem was, the puff pastry was already sweetened so we couldn’t even go savoury with them.

That was when a little kitchen epiphany occurred!

Recipe For Puff Pastry Strawberry Tart

Is this a strawberry puff pastry dessert or a breakfast? Well, that’s up to you.

You see, I just thought, “Oh well, we can just have the strawberries with yoghurt and honey for breakfast.

Cue moment of epiphany!

“Oh, eureka! Let’s try sandwiching that breakfast in the pastry disc to make little puff pastry strawberry tarts.”

And so our alternative strawberry puff pastry recipe was born.

It’s a celebration of Fethiye; local strawberries, local honey and locally made, thick, creamy Turkish yoghurt.

Although Annie from the blog Back To Bodrum assures us we would find puff pastry very easy to make ourselves, we’re still using frozen sheets of milföy böreği.

One step at a time…

Anyway, there’s the back story to this little creation.

Let’s get on and make our puff pastry strawberry tart – cilekli milföy tatlısı.

And it’s that easy.

As we’ve said in the recipe, if you want to get downright messy, you can easily add more yoghurt and strawberries.

You could even make a tower and stack another layer on top so that you have three discs of puff pastry and extra strawberry indulgence.

Quite how you’d go about eating that… We’re keeping it simple though.

The main sweetness in this strawberry puff pastry recipe is the natural sweetness of the strawberries and the drizzle of honey.

That’s just about as sweet as we want to get, really.

Now the only decision is, do you just go for it and take a big bite or do you go the sensible route and use a fork?

We’ll leave that one of you to decide…

• Take a look at more of our recipes if you want to cook Turkish dishes at home. This strawberry puff pastry recipe is in both the Breakfast and the Desserts categories.
• ‘Çilekli Milföy Tatlısı’ translates as ‘Strawberry Puff Pastry Dessert.’

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