Hello friends! I want to share with you my recipe for a quick puff pastry. For him, I take a mixture of premium and first grade flour. Flour 1 grade usually has stronger gluten.
It is better to watch kneading and rolling of these layers in a video clip, it will be easier and more understandable:
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Quick puff pastry recipe
- Add salt to the flour.
- Add lemon juice to water at room temperature.
- Add liquid to flour and knead the dough.
- Knead the dough until smooth.
- Wrap the finished dough with cling film and refrigerate for 40 minutes.
Divide a 200 g pack of butter into 4 parts and put in the freezer.
- Dust the table with flour.
- Roll out the dough into a square or rectangle.
Everything else needs to be done quickly.
- Take 1 quarter of the oil out of the refrigerator and roll in flour.
- Rub the oil over the middle third.
- Cover the butter with another third of the dough and pass with a rolling pin.
- Take the next piece of butter out of the refrigerator and rub it on top as well.
Don't let the butter melt in your hands!
- Cover the dough with the last third, dust with flour and roll out.
- Take out the next piece of oil and rub it over 2/3 of the surface.
- Fold the dough in three layers.
- Roll out the dough into strips again.
- Repeat everything with the last piece of butter.
- It turned out 3 additions: 3x3x3 = 27 layers.
- Can be folded 4 times with a book.
- Make the last additions depending on how much you can roll.
- 27 layers without oil 4 times is 112. One triple addition is 336, which is sufficient.
Put the finished dough in a bag and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. It can be used in all recipes where there is puff pastry.
I wish you bon appetit.
Yeast-Free Puff Pastry Recipe:
300 g flour
150-160 g water
1 tsp lemon juice (without it)
1 (no top 5 g) tsp salt
200 g butter or butter margarine
Baking for 20 minutes at 230 ° C.
Quite a decent result for a quick test.