Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, puff pastry. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Puff Pastry is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Puff Pastry is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
As a member, you'll be able to store your favorite Pepperidge Farm® Puff Pastry recipes in your personal Recipe Box. Plus, you can receive Inspiration, our monthly. Based on the classic French method of making puff pastry, but is assembled inverted, or "inside out".
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have puff pastry using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Puff Pastry:
- Prepare 2 cups all-purpose flour, plus extra for dusting your counter and rolling pin
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 2 cups ice water, you won't use it all but it is easier to spoon if you have more than a cup
- Make ready 8 oz cold unsalted butter
Whether it's speedy rough puff, homemade from scratch or a cheat's off-the-shelf block, this buttery pastry can be used for pies, tarts, desserts and canapés. Making puff pastry from scratch is a rather involve process, including lots of butter and lots of dough folding. Buying frozen or store-bought is a cinch and works just as well! Store-bought puff pastry can be a home cook's best friend.
Steps to make Puff Pastry:
- Set aside some extra flour for dusting your counter and rolling pin. Also set aside your ice water. Cold tap water is fine.
- Mix the flour with the salt before pouring it out on your counter top. Form a pile.
- Make a trough in the middle of your pile. Sprinkle 1 tbsp of water into the trough and immediately toss the flour lightly by cupping your hands together and using a scooping motion. Gather the flour back into a pile and repeat until a dough that you can pick up and flip over forms. Shape the dough into a square and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. You have made what is commonly referred to as lean dough.
- Cut the butter into chunks, dust with flour, and pound flat with the rolling pin. Gather it up; use a pastry scrapper if necessary. Dust with flour and pound flat again. Repeat this process until the butter is pliable and can be folded without breaking. Shape into a 4’’ x 4’’ square and wrap with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at most 10 minutes.
- Take the lean dough out of the fridge and put the plastic wrap to one side; we will reuse it. Roll the dough out into a 7’’ x 7’’ square. Take the butter square out of the fridge and remove it's plastic wrap. Place it in the middle of the lean dough and orient it so that it's corners are pointing between the corners of the dough. Fold the corners of the dough over the butter so that they meet in the middle. Pinch the seams close.
- Flour the surface where you want to roll the dough out and flip it over so that the seams are down. Flour and roll the dough out so that it is 12'' long and 6'' wide. Fold the top third of the dough down and the bottom third over it as you would fold a letter. Rotate the dough 90 degrees and repeat. Now wrap the dough in plastic wrap you saved and refrigerate for 30 minutes. You have completed what is commonly call 2 turns on the dough.
- Repeat step 6 twice more so that you will have performed a total of 6 turns. After the last turn, refrigerate the dough for at least 1 hour. After that, your dough is ready to be used as puffy pastry.
But if you want a really buttery flavour, try Puff pastry can be bought ready-made either chilled or frozen. Look for all-butter varieties for the best. Puff pastry can be time consuming to make, but the results are worth it. If you have a recipe that requires puff pastry and you do not have access to the pre-made frozen kind, you can make your own. Puff Pastry Cannoli Cones - Puff Pastry.
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