Puff Pastry

Puff pastries are an excellent substitute for bored bread or lavash used every day. Incredibly soft, puff pastry cakes that melt in your mouth can be eaten not only with first courses, salads or barbecue, but also served with tea as a savory dessert.

Ingredients

For puff pastry:

• Wheat flour of the highest grade – 1 kg
• Milk 3.2% fat – 250 ml
• Filtered water – 250 ml
• Vegetable oil – 125 ml
• Dry yeast – 10 g
• Salt – 5 g

To lubricate the cakes:

• Ghee butter – 200 g
• Vegetable oil – 100 ml
• Egg yolk – 1 pc.
• Yogurt (unflavored) – 10 g

Directions

1. Pour warm milk into a deep container.
2. Add slightly warmed water.
3. Pour in dry yeast.

   

4. Pour in vegetable oil and salt.
5. Stir the ingredients vigorously.
6. Pour in flour sifted through a sieve.
7. We mix the ingredients and knead the plastic dough.
8. We place the dough in a container, cover with a towel and send it to a warm, windless place for 60 minutes.
9. We mix ghee with vegetable oil.
10. We form balls with a diameter of no more than 4-5 cm from the dough. I got 12 balls.
11. Stretch the ball until a cake forms. Lubricate it on both sides with an oil mixture.

    

12. Roll out the dough so that the cake is oval. The dough can also be stretched by hand if it is elastic enough.
13. We fold the cake with an envelope.
14. We make the next cake, also grease it with an oil mixture.
    Place the first dough carpet in the center of the resulting cake.
15. We wrap the edges of the second cake to make an envelope again. We make a third cake and repeat the same steps as for the first two cakes.
    As a result, one cake should take three lumps of dough. As a result, four cakes will be formed.
16. Roll the resulting dough envelope into a layer.
17. Place the multi-layer cakes on a plate and send them to a cold place for 20 minutes.
18. After a while, we transfer the cakes to a baking sheet covered with parchment. Superficially make cuts diagonally.
19. Mix the egg yolk with unflavored yogurt.
20. Lubricate each cake with an egg-yogurt mixture.

    

21. We send puff pastries to a well-heated oven for 15 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 degrees.
22. Hot flaky cakes give off an amazingly appetizing aroma of buttery pastry.
23. To keep the cakes for a long time their original softness, store them under a lid or towel.

Bon Appetit!