How to learn how to cook delicious puff pastries

Kitchen appliances and utensils:

• stove or hob;
• gas or electric oven;
• deep container with a lid;
• sieve;
• deep bowl;
• tray;
• tablespoon;
• whisk;
• fork;
• coarse grater;
• pan of 0.5 l;
• tea spoon;
• rolling pin;
• knife;
• kitchen paper towel;
• beaker;
• kitchen scales;
• parchment paper;
• cloth towel;
• silicone brush;
• a baking sheet;
• scapula;
• dish.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Dough

1. Pour 400 ml of water into a 0.5-liter pan, put on a stove on a large fire and heat to a warm state. We pour already warm water into a deep container.
   
2. Add 1 tbsp. l sugar, 1 tsp. salt, 7 g of dry yeast and 50 ml of sunflower oil, then stir with a whisk until the yeast dissolves.
   
3. Sift 700 g of flour through a sieve into a deep bowl. To the yeast mixture add 2 tbsp. l sifted flour, stir it with a fork, again add 2 tbsp. l flour and again stir with a fork. When the dough becomes steep enough for the fork, remove the sticky dough from it with your hands, add the remaining flour and knead the mass with your hands.
   
4. When the dough is a little sticky, put it on the work surface and knead it thoroughly by hand for about 5 minutes.
   
5. When the dough is kneaded, pour 1 tbsp. l sunflower oil into a deep container, lubricate it, cover the rest of the dough with the remaining oil and place it in a greased container. Cover with a lid and set in heat to lift for 40-45 minutes.
   
6. After 40-45 minutes, we take out the container, sprinkle a working surface of 0.5 tbsp. l flour, put our dough on it and hands form a roller out of it.
   
7. With a knife, divide the roller into 9-10 approximately equal parts and roll the balls out of them.
   
8. Sprinkle a work surface of 0.5 tbsp. l flour, put a ball of dough on it and roll it into a round layer with a thickness of about 3 mm.
   
9. Take the second ball of dough, roll it into a circle of the same diameter as the previous one, and put it on top of the first, 5 cm away from the top edge. Do the same with the remaining pieces of dough.
   
10. Sprinkle the tray with 2 pinches of flour, put one circle of dough in the middle, then take 150 g of butter and rub a small amount on a coarse grater above the dough circle.
    
11. We distribute the oil shavings on the surface, cover with another round of dough and crush with our hands, rub a little more butter on it, then again distribute it on the surface and cover it with a third round layer.
    
12. Repeat the steps until the dough circles are over, after which we compact the resulting 9-10 layers, pressing them slightly on top with your hands.
    
13. Sprinkle a work surface of 0.5 tbsp. l flour, put our layers of dough on it, sprinkle on top another 0.5 tbsp. l flour and hands seal them.
    
14. We turn the layers of dough and roll them with a rolling pin into one large layer with a thickness of 4-5 mm, periodically turning it over during rolling.
    
15. When the dough is rolled out, we tear off a piece of paper towel and remove the remaining flour from the surface with it.
    
16. Grate the remaining butter, distribute the chips evenly on the surface and roll the layer into a loose roll.
    
17. We spread the long roll on a chopping board, cut it into pieces 3-4 cm thick, lay out each on the surface of the tray with the place to cut down and slightly flatten from above.
    

Pies

1. When all the dough is sliced, we take one piece of dough, flatten it a little by hand, with our fingers we make a depression in the middle, leaving the sides.
   
2. We lay out any non-liquid filling in the resulting recess, then pinch the edges, as for ordinary pies, and put it on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper, seam down. In a similar way we sculpt the remaining pies.
   
3. Turn on the oven at 180 ° C and leave to warm up. When the pan is full, in a bowl we mix 2 egg yolks and 1 tbsp. l the sunflower oil obtained by the mixture with a silicone brush is greased on top of the patties.
   
4. Put the pan in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes. After 20-25 minutes we take out the ready-made pies together with the baking sheet, put the sheet on a heat-resistant surface and cover the finished products for 5 minutes with a cloth towel.
   
5. After 5 minutes, remove the towel, put the finished pies on the dish, cool and serve.
   

Video recipe

To make sure that you roll or cut the dough correctly, or to clarify how the pies are molded, you can watch the video recipe.

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