Emperor's New Groove Llama Potion and Spinach Puffs
Emperor’s New Groove is a cartoon movie set in ancient Peru in an Incan empire. If you've watched it, you might remember Kronk’s spinach puffs. Kronk’s puffs aren’t indigenous to Peru but boy do they look tasty. So we couldn’t help but recreate them. In keeping with the name, we bought ourselves some puff pastry, which you can also make from scratch if you have the time.
Kuzco’s pink poison in the movie actually ends up being a llama potion. Even though the Inca’s liked their llama meat, you don’t have to worry, there isn’t any in this llama potion. Instead we’re using dragon fruit, both for the bright pink color and because it’s a fruit native to Peru (as well as Mexico and Central America). Then we add some strawberries for sweetness before topping up with a fizz of lemonade.
Ingredients:
Potion
- 1x dragon fruit
- 250g (1x punnet) strawberries
- 150ml lemonade
Spinach Puffs
- 150g chopped spinach
- 1x onion
- 2-3 garlic cloves
- 100g/3.5 oz cream cheese
- 75g/2.6 oz feta
- 100g/3.5 oz parmesan
- 2x eggs (1 whole for eggwash, 1 for the yolk)
- herbes de provence (rosemary, basil, oregano, thyme, marjoram)
- handful pine nuts
- 1x packet puff pastry
- toppings: sesame or nigella seeds
- cooking oil
- salt & pepper for seasoning
