Preparing homemade puff pastry: General principles and recipes

Of course, today any dough can without problems completely normal price to buy in the shops. But home is always delicious, natural and ultimately, more useful! Learn to cook home-made puff pastry for a variety of purposes.

Puff pastry can be prepared a variety of dishes, pies and pasties, pizza and many other variety of pastries. At home to make it not too easy but not so difficult as it might seem. Enough to make the dough one day, and in the future, you will not see the sense in buying ready: why, if you can make delicious homemade dough, which remembers the warmth of your hands, on your own?

Puff pastry is very tasty, crispy and light (but not the calories, we should not forget that!), and articles thereof loved by many. In General, it is divided into two types: yeast and yeast-free (freshwater), and in each of these groups even have their own versions (classic, fast, butter, cheese, beer and so on).

In General, the main feature of any puff pastry is the use of a large amount of margarine or butter when cooking.

Features of making pastry

• Use the flour, make sure it proselyte.

• Use cold water, but not ice. The classic proportions of 1 part water and 2 parts flour, but it may depend on the recipe. Instead of water, puff pastry, you can get the milk: it will improve the taste, but will reduce the elasticity of the dough. Therefore, it is best to use a mixture of water and milk.

• In any recipe milk or water, you can replace the egg yolks then puff pastry will be more lush and tender.

• To improve the taste of puff pastry and increase its elasticity may be Sol, if you overdo it, it will deteriorate the taste test, and if you negotaite layers rasplyvetsya.

• Cream margarine/butter you want to use in the cold, but not frozen (layers can break the dough is difficult to roll), for greater splendor products take salted butter, but do not forget in this case to take less salt, which is specified in the recipe. Also the splendor of baking depends on the fat content of the oil, the higher it is the better. Usually the oil is added when ready the basic dough of flour, salt and water.
• To increase the elasticity of puff pastry, add the lemon juice/acid or vinegar in very small quantities.

Recipes for puff pastry

We will discuss how to prepare different variants of puff pastry: butter, yeast, pizza, fast food, etc.

Recipe butter puff pastry

You will need: 1 kg of wheat flour, 250ml of cold water, 500g butter, 1 tsp. salt.

How to make puff pastry. Sift the flour and mix with salt, add 2 tbsp butter softened, knead the dough, gradually add water, knead it after rolling into a ball for another 5 minutes, then put on a Board dusted with flour, roll out into a rectangle 1.5 cm thick. In the center put cold butter, cut it into slices with a thickness of 1.5 cm and put it in the form of a square, the edges of the rectangle of dough to roll to the middle so that they covered all the oil, put into the fridge for 20 minutes to Get the dough and roll it along so that the oil was squeezed out from the inside, visually divide the resulting long rectangle of dough into 3 parts, right and left fold, covering Central, then flip, roll out also - along from itself and again in the same way, folded three times, put into the fridge for 20 minutes to do The same 2 more times.

This dough is perfect for cake "Napoleon" and cakes.

The recipe for yeasted puff pastry

You will need: 100-300g butter, 20 g yeast, 2 cups flour, 1 Cup of water or milk and egg, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 0.5 teaspoon of salt.

How to make puff pastry dough. Warm the milk to pour into a bowl, separately in a small amount of warm milk to dissolve the yeast, add to milk in a bowl, beat the egg, add salt, until smooth stir, gradually USEPA flour knead the dough. At the end of the batch to add to the dough oil or melted butter, kneading dough until such time as the oil will not mix with the dough, Samusev, well sprinkle the dough with flour, cover with a cloth and leave in a warm place for 3 hours. When the batter is ready, roll it rectangular layer of 1-1,5 cm thick in the centre to put half of all norms of margarine and butter, cover part of the test, it put the remaining oil, cover the other part of the test - you will get 3 layers of dough and 2 layer of oil between them. Sprinkle the dough with flour, roll it into the layer 2-3cm thick, remove excess flour, four fold, again, again folded, the result should be a layer in which the layer 32 oil (if you use 200-300g butter) or 8-16 layers of oil (if it has 100-200 grams - in this case to fold the dough need not four, but three times).

This method describes the preparation of leavened puff pastry straight method.

Recipe puff pastry pizza

You will need: 400g flour, 40 g of margarine, 1 Cup water, 1 tsp. salt.

How to make pizza dough puff. Flour slide sift in the center to make a hole, pour very cold water, mixed with salt, gently with a knife to combine gradually the flour and water, then hand knead dough without lumps, cover it, remove 1.5-2 h in the cold. Margarine to soften and give it a longitudinal shape, clean in the cold for an hour. After a time the dough to roll out this form so that it is twice the size of the rectangle, which is a result of margarine. In the middle of the test to put the margarine, cover with the remaining two sides on the sides of the dough - it will close margarine completely. Powder dough and work surface with flour, down the seam to put the dough, roll out as thin as possible in length, folded three times, again roll again be folded, put into the cold for an hour. The dough is ready.

Recipe puff pastry quick cooking

You will need: 200g margarine/butter, 2 cups flour, half or 2/3 Cup water, 1 tsp. sugar ? tsp. salt.

How to cook quick puff pastry. Sift the flour on the table, put on her butter, cut into pieces, chop all the knife. In cold water to dissolve the sugar and salt, pour it in the chopped flour with oil, quickly knead the dough, cover it with a damp cloth, to remove 2 to 3 hours in refrigerator or overnight, get, roll out into a thin rectangle, fold it in 3-4 layers, again and again folded. The dough is ready.

Recipe cottage cheese puff pastry

You will need: 100g flour, dry skim milk cheese and margarine, salt.

How to cook cheese puff pastry. RUB the cottage cheese through a sieve or blend blender, combine with melted margarine and flour, salt and knead the dough, roll into a ball, put into the refrigerator overnight, covered with a damp towel or wrapped in a plastic bag. Roll out the dough and prepare the desired product.