Puff pastry cookies - a very simple recipe

Kitchen appliances and utensils: gas or electric oven, deep container, sieve, coarse and medium grater, teaspoon, fork, cling film, rolling pin, paper towels, 2 deep bowls, knife, silicone brush.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. We put 180 g of butter and 110 ml of water in the freezer for 10 minutes to cool them properly. Sift through a sieve into a deep container 320 g of flour. We take the oil from the freezer, roll it in flour and rub it on a coarse grater, regularly dipping the oil in flour.
   
2. We take water out of the freezer, add ½ tsp to it. salt and ¾ tsp freshly squeezed lemon juice, then stir with a teaspoon until the salt crystals dissolve.
   
3. Pour part of the water into the butter-flour mixture with a thin stream, without ceasing to stir the mass with a fork. So in portions, without stopping stirring with a fork, we introduce all the water.
   
4. Now we begin to knead the dough, for this we collect the resulting mixture into a lump, and as if then fold it in half. If the mass is very tight, add a little water. As a result, our mass will turn out to be soft and slightly sticky to the hands, at the same time, you do not need to get carried away very much by kneading the dough.
   
5. We form our dough in a brick, wrap it in a piece of cling film so that it completely covers the surface, and put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
   
6. After this time, we take out the dough, remove the film and put the time to solidify slightly on a powder sprinkled about 1 tbsp. l flour work surface. We take a rolling pin and begin to roll our brick into a layer about 0.5 cm thick, sometimes turning the dough so that it does not stick.
   
7. Now we add our dough: for this we take one end of the formation and fold it so that it covers 2/3 of the rolled dough, and cover it with the second end on top. Wrap the folded dough again in a piece of cling film and place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
   
8. While the dough is resting in the refrigerator, lightly grease our baking sheet with butter. To do this, hold a piece of oil in a zigzag pattern diagonally on the surface of the sheet, rub it on a surface with a paper towel and remove the residues. Pour 3-4 tbsp into a deep bowl. l sugar, on top three on a medium grater the zest of 1/2 lemon and mix everything with a teaspoon.
   
9. Turn on the oven at 230 ° C and leave it to warm up. We take out our chilled dough and lay it on a work surface sprinkled with flour, placing it with the narrow side facing us, and then roll it out with a rolling pin into a narrow rectangular layer about 4 mm thick.
   
10. The resulting rectangular layer is cut with a knife into 8 strips, after which we divide each in half.
    
11. We spread the rectangles of the dough on a baking sheet at a small distance from each other. If the dough remains, put it in the refrigerator to prepare a second batch of cookies. In a bowl, stir the egg white with a fork and apply a layer of protein on our sliced ​​dough pieces placed on a baking sheet with a brush.
    
12. On top of the protein layer, pour 1-2 large pinches of a mixture of sugar and zest, trying to evenly cover the surface of the rectangles with it. We send a baking tray with cookies for 20-23 minutes into the already preheated oven.
    
13. We take from the oven a sheet with a raised and browned cookie, remove them with a spatula and put it on a wire rack to cool.
    
14. After that, wash the pan, wipe it dry and cool before placing the remaining pieces of dough on it. We take out the remaining rectangles of the dough from the refrigerator, put it on a baking sheet and send them to the hot oven for 15-20 minutes, after which we take out and attach to the first batch on the wire rack so that they cool.
    

Important! This type of cookie can also be made with a filling. To do this, lay out on one rectangle a thick filling in the form of boiled condensed milk or jam, cover with a second rectangle on top and cover the edges. Also use grated cheese or cottage cheese with herbs as a filling, then it is better to sprinkle sesame seeds on top.

Such simple cookies are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.

Video recipe

To see how to properly fold the dough sheet, or what thickness the cookie blanks should be, it’s worth watching a video recipe.

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