Puff pastry is a brilliant product that is sold in any store. With him, any woman will become a wonderful hostess with golden handles. It is only necessary more often to pamper seven puffs from the finished dough.
Puff pastry layers - general principles of preparation
The store sells plain and yeast puff pastry. Products will be distinguished by splendor, but both products are perfect for home baking. The dough is most often frozen, it is previously taken out and allowed to lie in the heat. Then the layer is rolled up to the desired thickness, cut, form products with different fillings.
What do puffs do:
• meat, chicken, fish, sausages;
• vegetables, mushrooms;
• fresh and dried fruits, berries;
• cottage cheese, cheese, other dairy products;
• ready-made sweets: chocolate, marshmallows, marmalade.
Layers are molded in different forms: squares, rectangles, envelopes, make rolls or bagels. The appearance depends on the filling used and personal preferences.
Puff pastries are baked at a temperature of 200-220 degrees. But in many ways, the choice of parameters depends on the filling. Products with meat take longer to cook, therefore, the temperature must be made lower so that the dough does not burn.
Recipe 1: Puff Pastry Cheese Puffs
Cheese puff - simple, fast and delicious pastries. Cooking the filling takes just a few seconds. You can use any cheese, even processed, in the recipe indicated hard cheese.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of dough;
• 0.17 kg of cheese;
• egg.
Cooking
1. Defrost the dough on a table at room temperature. You can get it the day before, but then leave it in the refrigerator.
2. Expand the formation, roll up to a thickness of 3 millimeters.
3. Cut the squares with sides of 10 centimeters.
4. We rub any hard cheese with large chips.
5. Combine the egg with a spoon of water and beat well.
6. Grease the squares from the dough with an egg, it is convenient to do this with a wide brush.
7. Put the filling one square, cover the second and fasten the edges together. For beauty and greater strength, you can walk around the perimeter with a fork. Puffs will turn out with ribbed edges.
8. Throw products onto a baking sheet.
9. Top grease all the same egg, send to bake.
Recipe 2: Puff pastry puff pastry with apples
Variant of apple puffs from puff yeast dough. According to the recipe, fresh fruits are used for the filling. But you can always deviate from the rule and use jam, mashed potatoes, apples from compote.
Ingredients
• 0.3 kg of dough;
• 2 apples;
• 0.3 tsp cinnamon
• egg;
• 3 tablespoons of sugar.
Cooking
1. Immediately do the stuffing. Dice the apples, add sugar and cinnamon to them.
2. We transfer to the microwave oven and warm up for 2 minutes at maximum power. Cool down.
3. Roll up the dough, the layer should not be too thick.
4. Divide the dough into squares, any size. The edges around the perimeter are greased with an egg.
5. Distribute the filling between the puffs, pinch the edges obliquely to make triangles.
6. We shift to a baking sheet. Remember that the dough is yeast and baking will increase in size.
7. Lubricate, bake.
Recipe 3: Puff Pastry Puffs with Meat
Products in taste and appearance are very reminiscent of Uzbek samsa, but they are prepared many times easier and faster. For such puffs from the finished dough, you can take any meat, poultry.
Ingredients
• 2 onion heads;
• 500 grams of dough;
• 300 grams of minced meat;
• 3 yolks;
• spices, garlic, herbs.
Cooking
1. We take out the dough, while it thaws, we do the stuffing.
2. Finely chop the onion, send to the twisted meat, add spices, optionally a little garlic, chopped herbs. If the meat is not fat, then you can add a little fat or butter. Add two yolks.
3. Roll out the dough as thin as possible, cut into large squares of 15-20 centimeters.
4. Spread the filling.
5. Lubricate the edges of the layers with yolk and sculpt triangles.
6. Send to a baking sheet, grease the top with yolk, you can sprinkle with sesame seeds.
7. Meat puffs are baked at a temperature of no more than 180 degrees on average 40 minutes.
Recipe 4: Puff pastry puff pastry with cottage cheese and raisins
For such puffs from puff yeast dough, you can use not only ordinary cottage cheese, go and already cooked mass with raisins, candied fruits, chocolate and other additives. In this case, nothing but an egg can be added to the filling.
Ingredients
• 1 pack of dough;
• 0.4 kg of cottage cheese;
• 2 eggs;
• sugar;
• 50 grams of raisins;
• vanilla.
Cooking
1. Wash raisins, let stand a little in water for swelling and soft grapes.
2. Grind the cottage cheese with sugar, the amount of sand to taste. Add vanilla, break the egg into the filling, throw the raisins. Mix thoroughly.
3. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin to a thickness of three millimeters. We cut the squares of 12-15 centimeters, just cut the layer in such pieces so that there is no waste.
4. Beat one egg that remains.
5. Grease the edges of the squares.
6. Put the curd filling, fold in half. We pass a fork along the edges of the resulting rectangles to securely fasten the dough.
7. Put in the oven, bake until rosy (170 ° C / 20 minutes)
Recipe 5: Puff Pastry Puffs with Cherry
According to this recipe, you can cook puffs not only with cherries, but also with any other berries, such as strawberries, cherries, raspberries. So that the juice does not flow out, does not fill the entire baking sheet and does not burn, we resort to small tricks.
Ingredients
• 1 sheet of dough;
• 300 grams of berries;
• 3 tablespoons of starch;
• 3 tablespoons of sugar;
• 2-3 white crackers;
• egg.
Cooking
1. Take out the seeds from the berries, immediately discard into a bowl.
2. Add starch with sugar, stir.
3. Take white crackers, preferably vanilla or loaf. If there is nothing like this, then bread crumbs will do. We push with a rolling pin or chop in other ways.
4. Roll out the dough in a thin layer. We cut into squares of arbitrary size.
5. Sprinkle crackers on each square, try not to sprinkle on the edges.
6. Put the cherry filling on the half, cover with the second part and pinch the rectangles.
7. With a sharp knife on top, we make several deep cuts so that the berries look out.
8. Transfer the puffs to a baking sheet, grease with an egg, bake (200 ° C / 15 minutes).
Recipe 6: Puff pastry puffs with ham and cheese
The recipe for puffs with cheese and ham, which are perfectly combined with each other. The variety of ham, fat content and other indicators do not matter, as well as the type of cheese.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of dough;
• 0.15 kg of cheese;
• 0.25 kg of ham;
• egg, caraway seeds, flour.
Cooking
1. Cheese and ham, cut into thin rectangles.
2. Sprinkle a little flour on the table, roll out the dough with a thin layer. We cut into small rectangles, a little more pieces of ham and cheese.
3. Grease the edges of the rectangles with an egg.
4. Put a piece of ham on one rectangle, cheese on top. Cover with an empty piece of dough, pinch the edges.
5. We shift to a baking sheet, cover the top with an egg, sprinkle with a pinch of caraway seeds. Oven in the oven (200 ° C / 15 minutes).
Recipe 7: Beer Cheese Puff Cheese Puffs
A variant of very simple but tasty puffs for beer. You will need a yeast-free dough, the amount of all ingredients is arbitrary, but you need a little cheese.
Ingredients
• dough;
• cheese;
• salt;
• egg;
• a little sesame.
Cooking
1. Roll the melted dough thinly, as it happens. Cut into triangles, rectangles, stripes or any other shapes.
2. Rub finely cheese.
3. Lubricate the dough with an egg, you can take a wide brush and just go through.
4. Sprinkle with salt.
5. On top, we’re trimming grated cheese onto the dough. You don’t need much, otherwise everything will flow. Need a light and thin crust.
6. Sesame goes to cheese. You can take any nuts, seeds, or even skip this step and just make salted puffs with cheese.
7. Put on 220 in the oven, fry until appetizing color.
Recipe 8: Puff pastry puff pastry with sausage in a skillet
A variant of very simple and quick sausages in puff pastry, which are fried in a pan. A great option for those who do not want to turn on the oven or wait for the oven to heat up.
Ingredients
• butter;
• dough;
• a little bit of cheese;
• sausages.
Cooking
1. Roll out the dough, cut into elongated rectangles.
2. Put a sausage and a small strip of cheese on each slice. You can cook just with sausage without cheese.
3. We pinch the edges of the dough, you can leave the tips open. We do as we like more.
4. We heat a layer of oil so that the sausage is half drowned in it.
5. We spread the stuck together puffs and fry until the dough is brown on both sides.
6. Put the finished puffs on paper napkins to remove excess fat from the surface.
Recipe 9: Puff Pastry Puffs with Chocolate
A variant of delicious puffs from ready-made dough for sweet tooth. Chocolate can be taken dark or milk, a tile with nuts, raisins is suitable. Alternatively, you can use Nutella type chocolate paste, which is delicious with boiled condensed milk.
Ingredients
• dough sheet;
• chocolate bar;
• egg;
• a spoon of water;
• powder.
Cooking
1. Cut the rolled dough into elongated rectangles.
2. Beat the egg with a spoon of water. Grease all the dough at once.
3. Open the chocolate, break into cubes.
4. Put each cube on a rectangle and twist the roll.
5. We shift to the baking sheet, be sure to cut it down, gently press it with your hand so that the puff does not unwind.
6. Lubricate the top, bake until the dough is ready, about 12 minutes at 200.
7. Remove from the oven, cool. Pour chocolate puffs on top of the powder.
Puff pastry puffs - tips and tricks
• Purchased dough does not like repeated freezing. Therefore, to get out of the freezer and thaw, you need a certain amount of product. If there is excess or scrap left, then you can simply cut them into pieces, sprinkle with sugar and bake small crusts.
• Know how to make puff pastry? It can be cooked for free and frozen. At hand you will always have a home-cooked product for sweet and savory pastries.
• Puff pastry is dry in itself and it is undesirable to keep it in a draft for a long time. When gluing different parts, it is advisable to lubricate the joints. To do this, use an egg, milk or plain water.
• The dough itself is tasteless, but it's easy to fix. If the filling is with meat, sausage and other salty ingredients, then you can add spices to the egg for greasing, for a crust you can crush a puff of cheese. If the filling is sweet, then the finished products are sprinkled with powder, cinnamon, and watered with honey glaze.
• A sharp knife is the main assistant when cutting puff pastry. It will not crumple layers and impede the splendor of the edges.
• If the puff is filled with berries or fruits, but notches or punctures should be made on the surface. They are needed to release steam and preserve the shape of the products.
