In this article, you will learn how to make the classic puff pastry, as well as the quick cooking option. There is a detailed video.
Quick puff pastry: recipe
Such dough can also be used to bake cakes for "Napoleon", it is ideal for rolls with all kinds of fillings. Pies with smoked chicken and mushrooms are perfect for a snack table.
Here's what you need to make your puff pastry:
- 125 ml of water;
- 1 yolk;
- 1/2 tsp salt;
- 1/2 tsp 9% vinegar;
- 350 g wheat flour;
- 150 g butter.
The process of making quick puff pastry:
- First, mix the yolk with water, salt and vinegar in a bowl. Sift flour into another wide container, rub butter directly into it on a coarse grater. Stir these 2 ingredients with your hands to make an oil crumb, but this must be done quickly. Pour the freshly prepared liquid mixture into this free-flowing mass, knead a homogeneous dough.
- Shape it into a thick cake, place it on cling film spread on the table, cover with a second piece of plastic wrap. Shape the dough into a rectangle and refrigerate for 120 minutes.
- Sprinkle the board or work surface with flour, put a layer of dough here. Sprinkle with flour and a rolling pin, use it to roll out the dough into a 5 mm thick rectangle. Fold it in half in half. Flip it 90 degrees, and on this side, roll it also - three times. Roll out the resulting square with movements from you and towards you. It is convenient to roll out the dough, sometimes winding it on a rolling pin.
- When the thickness of the layer is 7-8 mm, it is possible to form confectionery products from it. To do this, cut the rectangle into 7 x 7 cm squares. If you have a smoked chicken, cut its fillet, put a tablespoon of this pulp on the center of the square, connect its opposite corners, blind the sides of the resulting triangle.
- With mushroom filling, you can bake rose-shaped puff pastries. To do this, make 3 cuts in a square 2.5 cm long, two in the upper corners, denoting the diagonal. The third slot goes from the middle of the bottom of the square slightly upward, put a tablespoon of minced meat in the center of the figure, make a rose from the resulting three petals.
- Place the pies on a baking sheet covered with glassine and oiled with vegetable oil. Beat a raw egg slightly with a fork, brush the surface of the pies with it. Preheat the oven to 200 ° C, place the baking sheet in the middle of it and bake the products for 20-25 minutes, when they are beautifully browned, then they are ready.
Video recipe for how to make a quick puff pastry:
