How to make a really delicious puff pastry house

To prepare yeast and without yeast, flaky pastry is not very easy, but the pastries from it turns magical. Try just worth.

What to cook puff pastry

To homemade puff pastry turned out really delicious, use white flour. Be sure to sift it before you put in the work. Combine flour, saturated with oxygen, are more airy products.

The liquid component of the test - the milk or water. Milk makes a sweet pastries, water also gives dough elasticity. If you prefer a compromise, use a mixture of water and milk in equal proportions.

Milk and water can replace egg yolks: they make the dough lush. 1 cup water or milk is ½ cup whipping yolks.

The peculiarity of puff pastry that to create it need a lot of butter or margarine (select to your taste). These ingredients should be at room temperature. If you take them right out of the refrigerator, the dough may tear.

Thus fatter than butter or margarine, the more tender baked products.

How to prepare a yeast flaky pastry

This kind of test is ideal for desserts: muffins, rolls and

Ingredients

• 1 ½ tsp dry yeast;
• 2 tablespoons sugar;
• 1 ½ cup of warm milk;
• 1 egg;
• 4 cups flour;
• 2 tablespoons of milk powder;
• 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• 100 grams of butter.

If desired, you can replace milk in the recipe water or egg yolks and butter - margarine.

preparation

Butter remove from the cooler. Yeast and ½ teaspoon of sugar dissolve in a glass of milk. Wait 10 minutes until the appearance of foam. Add remaining sugar, egg hammer. Stir well and leave at room temperature for 10-15 minutes.

Pour the flour into a bowl and make an indentation. In this deepening pour milk, to pour the vegetable oil, yeast mixture and milk residues. Well knead the dough and cover it with a towel. Leave in a warm place for 90 minutes, then knead again and let stand for another hour.

Place the softened butter between 2 pieces of food films. Roll the oil in the reservoir is 5 mm thick and clear in the freezer for 5-10 minutes.

Roll dough into a layer 8.5 mm thick. Put in the center of the prepared butter.

Screw formation edge, so that oil is turned inside.

Roll dough formation longest 5-8 mm thick, with the same force pressing the rolling pin. The oil must be distributed evenly.

Mentally divide the dough into 3 parts. Wrap it with a narrow edge to ⅔ and cover the rest of the test. It should be folded into 3 layers.

Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and store it in the freezer for 20 minutes. Then again the formation roll, fold in 3 layers and remove the freezer for another 20 minutes. Repeat this process 2-4 times more.

How to cook without yeast flaky pastry

Without yeast (unleavened) dough is prepared much faster. It is suitable for hot appetizers, vegetables, meat and fish pies, chebureks, pizzas. From it you can do, and dessert, but teach what the product will turn out a flat, thin, very crisp.

Ingredients

• 1 cup of warm water;
• 1 teaspoon of sugar;
• 1 teaspoon salt;
• 1 egg;
• 1 tablespoon vinegar;
• 3 ½ cups flour;
• 200 grams of butter.

preparation

Salt and sugar dissolve in water. Add the egg and vinegar. Stir well. Gradually add flour and knead the dough elastic. Roll it into the reservoir and oiled in the same way as in the case of yeast dough.

How and how much to store homemade puff pastry

In the refrigerator, flaky pastry can be stored for 2-3 days. Enough to wrap it with cling film and place on the middle shelf.

In the freezer dough will lie up to six months. After thawing, it is necessary to use during the day.

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