HomeBaking Made Easy with Nana: Simple Make-ahead Frozen Snacks

Early in my baking days, before I knew that it is not that difficult to make pie crust from scratch, I used frozen puff pastry for making pies. Now that I know how to make the pie crust, I still have frozen puff pastry in my freezer for any instant pastry recipe that I need to make. There's varieties of creative ideas to use this. Recently, I have learned that we can also use frozen paratha to make instant pies or puff pastry due to the flaky texture once it has been baked. When I first try baking paratha to make tuna puff, I straightaway fell in love with this. The texture is as not as flaky as the puff pastry but just right for my preference - i don't usually enjoy too flaky pastry that will always leave lots of crumbs on my plate (or on the table i might say 😅)
Lots of ideas i got from some of the instagrammers that I followed that utilize this instant paratha to make many easy and delicious sweet and savoury pastry.
One of the benefit of using this is that you can make it ahead of time and freeze it. So whenever you want to eat it, you can just take it out from the freezer and pop it in the oven to bake. Its as simple as that.

Below are some of the make-ahead meals that I make using frozen puff pastry or paratha.

Tuna puff (using instant Paratha)