Puff pastry cooker. How to make puff pastry at home: recipes and secrets

The process of making puff pastry is quite labor-intensive and difficult, so not every even the most experienced housewife knows how to cook puff pastry at home. The main snag in its preparation is the need to roll out thin layers several times. An ideal and high-quality product is considered to be a sample with layers rolled out a total of 150 times.

Visually, you will not notice the hard work of the cook, but when eating the concoction you will definitely appreciate the unique taste qualities.

Recipe for classic puff pastry

Required ingredients:

A couple of glasses of premium wheat flour;
200 grams of butter (spreads and margarine are not suitable;
A glass of clean boiled water;
A pinch of salt.

Take wheat flour and add salt to it, mix the bulk mixture thoroughly.
Pour cooled water into the flour, it is best to do this in parts, stirring the viscous mass each time until you obtain an elastic piece of dough.
Using a rolling pin, turn a piece of dough into a thin sheet.
Place a slice of cold butter in the middle and repeat this procedure each time.
Carefully fold into an envelope.
Roll it out with a rolling pin until a rectangular layer is formed.
Visually divide the resulting rectangle into three equal parts.
Fold it in thirds.
Leave the dough to rest in the refrigerator for at least 20 minutes.
Roll out the previously folded rectangle with a rolling pin into a large layer, roll it into three equal parts.
Place the product back in the refrigerator.
Repeat this action at least 10 times.

The puff pastry is ready for further work. Despite the fact that it is prepared from the simplest ingredients, not every housewife will decide on the cooking process. But today there are several recipes quick test, which can be easily kneaded at home. The only thing is that its taste will be different from a product made according to the classics, since air layers will appear in it due to additional components and other tricks during preparation.

How to easily make homemade puff pastry

Now you know how to make classic puff pastry at home, but there is an easy recipe that will require much less fuss in the kitchen. It is suitable for your first culinary attempt.

Take 200 grams of wheat flour and a pack of butter. Some time before you start cooking, put the oil in freezer, it is necessary for it to harden, so it will be much more convenient to grate it into fine crumbs.
Pour flour and 100 ml of water into the oil, knead the ingredients into a plastic mass and remove to cool.
After fifteen minutes, remove from the refrigerator and use a rolling pin to turn it into a rectangular layer, which you carefully roll into two parts.
Place in the refrigerator and set aside for exactly 15 minutes.
Roll out again into a thin layer and fold into 2 parts. It is recommended to repeat this manipulation at least five times.

This puff pastry with a simplified recipe is perfect for baking pies, puff pastries, envelopes with sweet filling and other dishes.

Preparing a quick version of puff pastry

Exists unusual recipe how to make puff pastry at home, which involves the use of vinegar, the only disadvantage is ready dough tighter than the classic one.

Take 200 grams of flour and a stick of butter, first add a pinch of salt to the flour.
Add a tablespoon of 9% vinegar to 100 ml of water and stir it.
Mix all the ingredients together until you get a mass that feels tightly kneaded and looks glossy.
The mass should be allowed to rest in a cool place for several hours.
Then make a sheet of dough and fold it in half, roll it out again into a rectangle. 4-5 repetitions of this manipulation are enough. Simple puff pastry is ready, now you can start baking delicious products with various fillings.

Homemade instant puff pastry (video)

Now you don’t have to buy a semi-finished product in stores, because you know how to prepare classic or simplified puff pastry at home. Be sure to decide to bring the recipe to life and please yourself and your household with delicious and aromatic pastries.

To prepare fluffy croissants open pie or other baked goods, you will need puff pastry. You can buy it at any supermarket, but it is much safer to make it yourself. This is considered to be quite difficult, especially when it comes to the yeast version. However, don't be scared! Follow the suggested recipe and everything will work out. And the photos will explain all the nuances of the cooking process.

Based on the amount of ingredients indicated in the recipe, you can prepare puff pastry, which is enough to bake a small pie with a diameter of 20 cm and a height of 4 cm or 10 croissants. If necessary, you can proportionally increase the amount of ingredients.

Ingredients

1 cup flour (for the base);
2 tbsp. l. flour (for layering);
3/4 cup flour for rolling (you may need less, a lot depends on the flour);
50 g butter (soft);
100 g butter (for layering, very chilled);
5 g dry yeast;
1/2 cup milk;
1 tbsp. l. Sahara;
1/2 tsp. salt;
1 egg.

Preparation:

Heat half a glass of milk in microwave oven or on the stove. Pour dry yeast into the milk. Stir well. Pour the milk and the dissolved yeast into a large bowl. Add the rest of the ingredients there: flour, egg, sugar, butter and salt. The butter for the dough should be soft.

Knead the dough from the ingredients described above. This will be the yeast base. It should be set aside for at least 1 hour, but no longer than 2-3 hours. To prevent the puff pastry from becoming airy on top, cover it with a towel.

Now let's prepare the butter for layering. To do this, take very cooled butter, put it in a plate and add flour to it. The butter should be chopped with a cold knife and mixed with flour until it turns into fine crumbs. After this, the plate with butter and flour crumbs should be put in the refrigerator.

When the dough will work, put it in required amount flour, so that the mass does not stick to your hands and can be rolled out. Roll out the base into thin pancake on a floured table or special board. Remove the plate of butter-flour crumbs from the refrigerator. Separate a small part (1/5 or 1/6 - depending on the area of the rolled out dough) and distribute it evenly over the rolled out dough.

Advice for beginners. After you take some of the flour from the plate, put it back in the refrigerator. This is done so that the butter does not start to melt in the heat. If this is not the first time you are preparing puff pastry at home, you can layer and roll it out quickly and skillfully, and you don’t have to put the plate with the butter-flour crumbs out in the cold each time.

Fold the dough in half and gently roll it out with a rolling pin. Sprinkle the resulting dough layer with butter crumbs again. Fold it in half and roll it out again. This is done until the butter and flour crumbs are gone. When rolling out, it is not immediately possible to get the dough into a neat square shape. However, during the first 2-3 layers this can be achieved by collecting the layer in the shape of a square, as can be seen in the photo.

Homemade puff pastry is ready! It looks beautiful and has at least 32 layers. Now you need to put it in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour. There the dough will cool and be ready for baking.

Yeast-free puff pastry

Many women ask the question: “How to make puff pastry without yeast?” Not everyone wants to tinker with them, but everyone wants to get an excellent result. The answer to the question will be a recipe for yeast-free puff pastry. You can use it to make puff pastries, croissants or other confectionery, both sweet and meat. By preparing puff pastry according to the suggested recipe, you will get a base that is enough for 8-10 palm-sized croissants.

You will need:

2 cups of flour;
1/2 glass of water;
1/2 tsp. salt;
1 tsp. lemon juice;
200 g butter (highly chilled).

Preparation:

Dissolve in half a glass of water lemon juice and salt. Sift the flour into a deep bowl. The sifted flour is saturated with oxygen, and the resulting dough becomes more airy. Collect the flour in a mound and make a well in the center.

Gradually pour water into the well and mix it with flour. Knead the dough this way. It should not stick too much to your hands and rolling pin so that it can be rolled out. This will be a yeast-free mass, on the basis of which you will need to prepare puff pastry.

Roll out the mixture into a thin layer. To make the layers you will need butter. Divide the cooled butter into 6 parts. Take them one by one, and put the others in the refrigerator, otherwise they will melt and stick to the grater and your hands.

Take one part of oil. Grate it quickly. Distribute over the dough layer. This is best done with a spoon or cold hands.

Fold the dough sheet into quarters. Gently roll it out with a rolling pin as thin as possible. Take the second part of the butter, grate it and spread it over the dough. Fold the layer in four again and roll out. Repeat these manipulations until the oil runs out.

Puff yeast-free dough ready! Refrigerate it for 1 hour or longer. This must be done so that the mass cools sufficiently. After the specified time has passed, you can prepare baked goods.

Quick puff pastry

Making puff pastry doesn't have to involve the tedious process of layering it with butter. There is a recipe that allows you to make it quickly and easily. This option Ideal for making khachapuri, samsa or chicken leg pouches. Quick puff pastry is elastic and easy to sculpt. Try to cook it according to the proposed recipe, and you will discover many new dishes based on it.

You will need:

200 g butter (highly chilled);
2 cups flour (plus a little more flour for rolling);
1/2 glass of water;
1 tbsp. l. vinegar (regular or apple cider vinegar);
1/4 tsp. salt.

Preparation:

Place very cooled butter in the bowl in which you are going to knead the dough. Add flour there too. Chop the butter with a knife and mix it with flour. Do this until the mass turns into crumbs.

Collect the mass and lay it out in a slide, as in the photo. Make a depression in the middle of the slide. Dissolve vinegar and salt in half a glass of water. Gradually pour water into the hole while continuing to chop the dough. Do this until the mass becomes homogeneous.

Quick homemade puff pastry is ready! Cover with cling film and refrigerate for 1 hour. As you can see, you can make puff pastry quite easily without spending a lot of time on preparation.

This is a wonderful dough, just a lifesaver. Cooking it is simple, probably 10 minutes is a lot... and the result is incredible, soft and at the same time crispy, flaky and tasty. You don’t need to layer or roll anything out, you don’t need a lot of movements. I just mixed everything one by one and put it in the refrigerator. If you are going to cook something for several days, it will be perfectly preserved in a bag in the refrigerator; if you are preparing for future use, you can put it in the freezer. Another advantage of it is that the ingredients are approximate, we can easily replace sour cream with kefir or yogurt, add flour if it sticks a little to our hands. We also use any fat or combine it, you can take margarine, butter, lard, whatever. Rolling out is very easy as the dough is soft and elastic. From this norm you will get puff tongues with a caramel crust, 4 baking sheets. My friend prepared kurnik from this dough and said that she would never cook with store-bought dough again, it turned out much tastier. The recipe is from my mother’s culinary notebook, for which I thank her very much.

You can make puff pastry different ways. The classic cooking option is quite labor-intensive and takes a lot of time. In this article I will write a recipe for puff pastry instant cooking. It is mixed in 10 minutes and cooled for two hours. Making this puff pastry is easy and not difficult. Follow the instructions below and you will succeed!

This recipe is the fastest of all existing ones. Here everything needs to be done quickly so that the oil does not heat up. Baking from this dough turns out delicious, there are many layers. You can make anything from this dough - Napoleon, croissants, samsa, rolls, pies, etc.

Ingredients:

butter (or margarine) - 400 gr.
water - 200 ml
egg - 1 pc.
flour - 500 gr.
salt - 0.5 tsp.
vinegar 9% - 0.5 tbsp. (or 1 tbsp 6% apple cider vinegar)

Quick puff pastry: preparation method.

1.All ingredients for this recipe must be cold. The water must first be cooled in the refrigerator, and the butter must be frozen in the freezer. The layers in the dough are created by pieces of butter. Therefore, the butter must be frozen, and the dough must be kneaded quickly so that the butter does not melt. Do not remove ingredients from the freezer in advance, but immediately before use.

2. Beat a cold egg into a bowl, salt it and pour in vinegar. Stir these products with a whisk. Pour over the egg ice water and stir quickly until smooth. Set this mixture aside for now.

Mix cold egg, water, salt and vinegar.

3. Sift all the flour (0.5 kg) onto the table. Now you need to grate the frozen butter into the flour using a coarse grater. Rub a little butter and sprinkle some flour on top. Then they rubbed it a little more and poured it over. All the butter should be in the flour. At the same time, try to contact the oil with your hands as little as possible. It will melt quickly from the warmth of your hands.

4.When all the butter has been grated, quickly mix it with the flour with your hands.

Important! Do not knead the butter with flour, do not grind it. Just stir and pour.

5.Make a well in the butter and flour and start adding water and egg in small portions and mix everything together. They poured some water, covered it with flour and so on. When all the liquid has been poured in, gather the dough into a ball. There is no need to knead it, otherwise the layers will not turn out. At this stage, you will see how the dough separates right before your eyes. Quickly gather the dough into one pile, this is done very quickly, in 1-2 minutes.

6. Divide the dough into 2-3 parts, wrap each in film or put in a bag. Place the dough in the freezer for 2 hours. Then take it out, let the dough defrost a little, and you can roll it out for baking.

The main thing is to pre-cool all products and freeze the butter. And quickly knead the dough so that the butter does not have time to melt. This is very good recipe(and fastest) puff pastry.

In the next article I will write. See you!