Puff pastry is widely used in cooking for baking a wide variety of bakery products. Suffice it to recall the famous "Napoleon" or straws with cream, sprinkled with nut crumbs, and the saliva will flow by itself. So we will meet today with a few very tasty and simple recipes.
A few words about the test
It is clear that the shops sell baked goods from a ready-made puff pastry. Of course, it is very tasty, the range is very diverse. If there is no free time, you can limit yourself to the products that are offered in supermarkets. And if time and desire allow, you can practice yourself. To this end, either a ready-made puff is bought, and then we create, invent, experiment. Or we make the dough ourselves. And here it should be clarified: the flax is yeast and bezdrozhzhevoy. Pastry from puff pastry is considered a classic option. Of course, the most difficult thing is preparing the dough. It is done this way: take flour and butter (margarine) from the calculation of 500 g to 400 g (flour / oil). Half of the flour is mixed with oil, rolled into a layer about a centimeter thick and placed in the refrigerator. In the remaining flour is added half a glass of cold water, juice from half a lemon, a spoonful of tea salt. The elastic dough is mixed and left to "rest" for half an hour. Then it is rolled into a large wide layer, in the middle put a cooled layer of oil, close, like an envelope, and carefully rolled to a thickness of a centimeter. Then it is stacked four times - and again for half an hour in the refrigerator. The operation is repeated thrice. And now, from what kind of pastry is made from a puff pastry batter.
"Converters" with ham and cheese
They are made from frozen semi-finished products. To begin with, let ready sheets of 30-40 minutes (or less) lie at room temperature. Whisk the egg. Slice the ham and cheese. This pastry made from puff pastry is referred to as spicy, since one of the components of the recipe is sweet maple syrup. Who prefers more familiar gastronomic delights, can be limited to ketchup. So, the table is sprinkled with flour, the thawed dough is spread out with sheets, cut into squares of the desired size, we add them in half. Inside of each we put ham and cheese, we carefully fix the edges and we use a fork. From above, pastry from a puffed, batterless dough is smeared with a beaten egg. All put on a baking sheet and put in a preheated oven for 20 minutes. Finished "envelopes" should be golden in color. If desired, they sprinkle with powdered sugar. We propose to grease the envelopes with a thick "muzhdeem" - garlic sauce. It's easy to make: squeeze garlic into a bowl, add vegetable oil, and add salt. With it, the "envelopes" turn out to be sharp. Not too much will be mustard.
Horns with creamy cream
Would you like a sweet bake option ? Here, please, delicious cakes like our favorite tubes. A miracle dessert is prepared for half an hour, baked for about 20 minutes. 8 servings are: 1 sheet of finished flakes, 1 egg for lubrication, 1 glass of cream with a fat content of 35% or more, half a glass of powdered sugar, a bag of vanillin. Preparation:
- Defrosted dough cut into 8 strips, each lap wrap around the culinary metal cones (you can make yourself from stainless steel), put it in a pan, cover and place in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Heat the oven.
- The pan is lined with bakery paper (you can print it, just oil it well). Remove the horns from the refrigerator. Each cover with a beaten egg and sprinkle well with powdered sugar, put on a baking sheet, bake until golden brown.
- Ready horns let cool right on the molds. At this time, whip the cream, add powder and vanillin and whip until the end, so that the mass becomes dense. Fill it with a pastry bag.
- From the horns pull out the metal form, each filled with cream, "cover" the hole with crushed nuts or crumbs. Put it in the fridge, then put it on the table.
And, finally, the last recipe - "Donuts in French"
This is pastry from puff pastry yeast, that is, a combined version. At the beginning, the usual yeast opara is prepared, based on it - dough. To make it puffy, mix the butter with flour, then roll in the rest of the yeast dough, allow to brew at room temperature and bake baking. For our donuts you will need: flour - gram 400-450, fresh milk - a glass, half-cups of oil (100 grams), sugar - from 2 tablespoons to half a glass or more - to taste, a pinch of salt, eggs - 3 pieces averages, lemon rind Crushed - gram 40-50 and the fourth part of a spoon of dry yeast. From the dough balls are laid out, for 15 minutes they "fit", after which they are roasted in the deep fryer until brown blush. Then, after cooling, everyone falls in sugar powder. You can pour the syrup from the jam.