Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, authentic homemade puff pastry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Authentic Homemade Puff Pastry is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Authentic Homemade Puff Pastry is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook authentic homemade puff pastry using 4 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Authentic Homemade Puff Pastry:
- Make ready 90 grams Bread (strong) flour
- Prepare 30 grams Cake flour
- Prepare 100 grams Butter (unsalted is fine. Cultured butter is best)
- Get 90 ml Ice water
Instructions to make Authentic Homemade Puff Pastry:
- Take the butter out of the refrigerator and cut into 1 cm cubes. Combine the dry ingredients and put into a bowl with the butter.
- Add the ice water and mix by cutting the butter into the flour, using a pastry cutter or spatula. (Don't use your hands because the butter will melt).
- It should still be a little floury when you're done mixing (like the photo). Wrap in plastic wrap and rest in the freezer for 30 minutes.
- Put the chilled dough on a piece of plastic wrap spread on your work space. Cover the top of the dough with another piece of plastic wrap. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin.
- Fold the dough over 3 times as in the photo.
- Now fold the dough over 3 more times, so that it's about 3 cm thick. Wrap in plastic wrap and rest in the freezer for about 20 minutes.
- Repeat Steps 4 - 6 two or three times. Any bits of dough that wouldn't come together at first will be smoothly incorporated after you finish these steps.
- The dough is finished. It keeps well in the freezer for 1 month. The photo shows the dough after I lightly rolled it out and sprinkled granulated sugar on top.
- This photo shows the dough from Step 8 after baking in a 220ºC oven for 15 minutes. The crust has lots of layers!
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