They make everything from puff pastry: croissants, rolls, and pies with various fillings. But such baking takes a lot of time. But you can do it easier - buy ready-made dough in the store. For those who are interested in baking from ready-made puff pastry, Damico has prepared a list of corresponding recipes.

Croissants are bagels made from puff pastry. They are especially popular in France, where they are traditionally served for breakfast.

Ingredients

• 1 pack of puff pastry dough

Cooking method

Defrost the dough.

Cut it into long isosceles triangles with a base of 7 - 10 cm.

Roll them into rolls, starting from the base.

You can wrap any filling into croissants. Chocolate chips, condensed milk, honey, jam, nuts, strips of cheese and ham are used as fillers.

Brush the croissants with yolk and place on a baking sheet. To prevent the products from sticking to the baking sheet, it must be lined with parchment.

Bake croissants at 220 °C for 25 minutes.

Vol-au-vents are “cups” made of puff pastry. The contents of the “cups” can be very diverse: you can fill them with caviar, mushrooms, vegetable stew, seafood cocktail, Olivier salad. Usually vol-au-vents are served at the festive table, but why not diversify the everyday menu with them?

Ingredients

• 500 g puff pastry
• 1 protein
• 100 g champignons
• 200 g small boiled-frozen shrimp
• 1 onion
• 200 ml cream (10%)
• parsley
• 2 tbsp. l. flour
• vegetable oil
• grated cheese

Cooking method

Using a glass, cut out circles from the dough.

Using a glass, make holes in half of the circles to create rings.

Place the circles on a baking sheet lined with parchment. Brush the edges with egg white.

Place the rings on the circles and press lightly. Pierce the bottoms of the vol-au-vents with a fork so that they do not rise during baking.

Brush the vol-au-vents with egg yolk.

Bake the vol-au-vents for 20 minutes at 200°C.

Cut the onion into half rings and fry in vegetable oil for 5 minutes.

Add flour and cream to the onion and sauté over low heat for 3 minutes, stirring continuously.

Add chopped mushrooms and shrimp. Simmer for 4 - 5 minutes. Salt and sprinkle with parsley.

Fill the vol-au-vents with the filling, sprinkle with grated cheese and keep in the hot oven for a few more minutes.

These spicy puff pastry flagella are an excellent beer snack. But even if your family doesn’t like foam, the sticks are unlikely to survive until tomorrow.

Ingredients

• 1 sheet of puff pastry
• 100 g Cheddar cheese
• 60 ml olive oil
• clove of garlic
• 1 tsp seasonings "Italian herbs"
• 1 egg

Cooking method

Grate the cheese, chop the garlic. Mix cheese and garlic with Italian herbs and olive oil.

Beat the egg with a fork.

Brush the thawed dough with egg and cut into long strips (about 5 cm wide).

Distribute the herbs and cheese evenly over the dough strips.

Twist each stick into a rope.

Heat the oven to 200 °C.

Bake the sticks until golden brown on a baking sheet lined with parchment.

The combination of tomatoes, basil, cheese and olive oil is typical of Italian cuisine. This pie is somewhat reminiscent of Margherita pizza, so beloved by Italians.

Ingredients

• 1 sheet of puff pastry
• 300 g cherry tomatoes
• 200 g Gruyère cheese
• 1 tbsp. l. olive oil
• several sprigs of basil
• salt pepper

Cooking method

Heat the oven to 200 °C.

Place the dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment and prick with a fork.

Place the cherry tomato halves on the dough.

Season with salt, pepper, grated Guyère cheese and olive oil.

Place in the oven for 20 minutes.

Sprinkle the finished pie with basil leaves.

Everyone knows apple strudel, which is served with tea or coffee with a scoop of ice cream. However, not only sweet filling can be wrapped in strudel. Here's a great snack recipe.

Ingredients

• 3 bunches spinach
• 1 sheet of puff pastry
• 1 onion
• clove of garlic
• 1 egg
• 50 g sour cream
• 50 g feta cheese
• 80 g grated parmesan
• pinch of nutmeg
• pepper
• olive oil

Cooking method

Chop the spinach and simmer in olive oil.

Heat the oven to 220°C.

Finely chop the onion and fry in olive oil.

Chop the garlic.

Place the dough on the table.

In a bowl, mix spinach, onion, garlic, feta, sour cream and egg. Salt and pepper the filling and add nutmeg to it.

Spread the filling on the dough and sprinkle with grated Parmesan.

Roll the dough with filling into a roll.

Place the roll on a baking sheet and place in the oven for 30 minutes.

Cut the finished strudel into pieces. Serve with iceberg lettuce tossed with olive oil, vinegar and lemon juice.

Bake these unusual cookies with honey and two types of sesame seeds for tea. It is not only tasty, but also elegant, so it can be served on a festive table.

Ingredients

• 1 package puff pastry
• 100 g white sesame seeds
• 50 g black sesame seeds
• 3 tbsp. l. honey

Cooking method

Heat the oven to 180°C.

Spread the dough on the table

Using a sharp knife, cut out stars from the dough (you can use special molds).

Place the stars on a baking sheet lined with parchment, coat them with honey and sprinkle with white and black sesame seeds.

Bake for 20 minutes.

These crispy triangles with a delicate curd and chocolate filling can be served both for tea drinking in a close family circle and for a festive table. You can take puff pastries to a picnic or to work to treat your colleagues.

Ingredients

• 500 g puff pastry
• 7 - 8 glazed cheese curds
• 1 egg yolk

Cooking method

Defrost the dough and place it on the table.

Cut each cheese in half.

Using a sharp knife, cut the dough into squares.

Place half of the cheese in the middle of each square.

Fold the squares into triangles and pinch the edges.

Place the cheese puffs on a baking sheet lined with parchment.

Heat the oven to 180°C, place a baking tray with puff pastries there.

Bake until golden brown.

French king cake

In France, this pie with a delicate nut filling is served on the day of Epiphany. Along with the filling, a small surprise is baked into the pie: a bean, a bean, or a porcelain figurine. The one who gets the surprise is declared the King and his head is crowned with a cardboard crown. Having ready-made puff pastry makes it easy to bake a king cake.

Grind almonds and pistachios into flour using a blender.

Grind the butter with nut flour, eggs, sugar and liqueur.

Place the butter-nut mixture in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.

Roll out the dough layer thinly. Cut a large circle out of it, and do the same with the second layer.

Place one of the circles on a baking sheet lined with parchment.

Coat the dough evenly with the butter-nut mixture.

Carefully cover the filling with the second circle of dough, pinch the edges.

Using a knife, carefully apply any pattern to the pie, being careful not to pierce the dough through.

Make a tiny hole in the center of the cake.

Place the pie in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.

In order for the product to acquire a beautiful shade, it must be greased with yolk before baking.

1. 1 tbsp. l. flour
2. 20 g corn starch
3. vanilla sugar packet
4. several raspberries

Cooking method

Preheat the oven to 200°C.

Roll out the layers of dough thinly, place on a baking sheet covered with parchment or a silicone mat, prick with a fork around the entire perimeter and bake for 10 minutes.

Pour milk into a saucepan, add vanilla sugar, bring to a boil.

Beat the eggs with a whisk. Add flour, powdered sugar and starch; mix well.

Continuously whisking the mixture, pour hot milk into it.

Place the mixture on low heat and, stirring constantly, cook until thickened.

Cool the mixture and put it in the refrigerator.

Beat the chilled cream well with a mixer.

Gently fold the whipped cream into the custard.

Place half of the cream on the baked layer of dough and cover with the second layer.

Place the remaining half of the cream on the second layer and cover with the third layer. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and decorate with berries.

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When thinking about what to make from puff pastry without yeast, take a look at these simple recipes. Among them you will find ideas for breakfast, dinner and a hearty snack.

Puff pastries without filling are very easy to prepare. This is perhaps the fastest way to use puff pastry.

1. Roll out the defrosted semi-finished product into a layer 3 mm thick.

2. Cut it with a curly knife into small rectangles. Twist each piece in the middle to create a cute bow.

3. Line a baking sheet with baking paper. Place bows on it at a short distance from each other. Bake them for 20 minutes at 180ºС.

Hot puff pastries can be sprinkled with powdered sugar. This will make them look much more appetizing.

A very simple and elegant breakfast idea that will surely lift your spirits before a busy day at work.

1. Place frozen dough on the table in advance, and after it has thawed, roll out a layer half a centimeter thick.

2. Cut the base into rectangles. Place a spoonful of granulated sugar in the middle of each.

3. Roll washed and sorted raspberries in starch. This is necessary so that the pies do not “flow” from the juice of the filling.

4. Place a few berries on each piece of dough, pinch the edges of the pieces and place them on floured parchment.

The dessert should be baked at 220ºС. Fragrant tea pies will be ready in 20 minutes. They can be decorated with powdered sugar.

To make bagels, it is better to use hard cheeses.

1. The spicy cheese needs to be cut into long bars. Roll out the dough into a layer 4–5 mm thick and cut into triangles.

2. Place cheese near one edge of each piece, sprinkle it with spices from a mixture of Italian herbs and wrap the triangles with rolls. They can be coated a little with egg and decorated with sesame seeds.

3. Bagels need to be placed in a preheated oven. Baking temperature - 200ºС. A tender and very tasty snack should be removed from the oven after 15 minutes.

The finished dough can make a great pizza. The main secret to preparing this dish is the careful selection of ingredients for the filling. Try not to overdo the sauce, otherwise the pizza will be too spicy.

2. Roll out the dough to the optimal thickness (no more than 1 cm) and brush with pasta sauce.

3. Place the onion, cut into half rings, as the first layer.

4. Place champignons in the second tier.

5. Then you can add pieces of any sausage or ham.

6. They are followed by tomatoes, cut into half slices.

7. The pizza should be generously sprinkled with grated hard cheese and put in the oven for 25 minutes. The dish is baked at a temperature of 200ºC.

Cooking with minced meat in the oven

This recipe will change the way you think about layer cakes. It turns out that they can be tasty, unusually satisfying and quite light at the same time.

Let's prepare a pigtail pie. For a layer of dough we need 400 g of any minced meat. Add a tablespoon of ketchup and mustard to it. Season with herbs for meat and salt.

1. Stir the minced meat a little until it mixes and becomes sticky.

2. In a separate bowl, prepare the cheese filling. Grate 150 g of hard cheese, mix it with chopped herbs, add a little salt and any seasonings.

3. Divide a piece of dough into three long rectangular layers and place them next to each other. Place the minced meat on the outer two “sausages”. For medium - only cheese filling.

4. Connect the edges of each layer so that you get three long closed “sausages”.

5. We intertwine them with a pigtail. Brush the pie with yolk, generously sprinkle with white or black sesame seeds and place on a baking sheet. Place the mold in the oven for 40 minutes at t=170ºС.

Allow the cake to cool slightly before dividing into pieces.

Quick pie with mushrooms in a slow cooker

This pie is rightfully ready to become an alternative to dinner. It is not only tasty, but also nutritious, and its preparation does not take much effort.

For one layer of dough you will need 300 g of champignons, one onion and a package of bacon (200 g).

1. All ingredients must be cut randomly and fried separately from each other in an oiled frying pan.

2. The filling components must be mixed, salted and seasoned with herbs.

3. Place a layer of defrosted dough on the bottom of the multicooker, make small sides and cut off excess edges.

4. Place the filling and sprinkle it with grated cheese. Set the “Baking” mode and cook the pie for 45 minutes.

Tubes - a cake from childhood

To make straws “like in childhood” you will need puff pastry without yeast.

1. It must be rolled out into a layer no less than 27 cm long. Then cut into strips 2.5 cm thick.

2. Wrap each strip around a greased cone, moisten with yolk, place on baking paper and place in the oven for 12 minutes. Cakes are prepared at 200ºС.

The most delicious thing about this dessert is the cream. It is whipped from three egg whites and 150 g of sugar. You can use the special function of the food processor, mixer or blender. The cream should be thick and dense.

Remove the hot tubes from the cones and when they have cooled, fill them with cream. Decorate with powdered sugar.

Triangles with cottage cheese

The dough for the triangles should be divided into equal squares, and the filling should be prepared from 200 g of cottage cheese and one egg.

1. Beat the egg. We will leave some to grease the pies, and add the rest to the cottage cheese.

This mixture needs to be sweetened properly, because the puff pastry itself is not sweet.

2. Place a little filling on the side of each square and connect the edges to form triangles.

3. Place the pies on parchment and brush them with egg using a silicone brush.

4. Triangles should be baked at 180ºС. Cooking time depends on the power and operating mode of the oven and varies from 12 to 20 minutes.

Puff pastries with jam from ready-made yeast-free dough

Even the lazy can make puff pastry from yeast-free dough. You don't need to put any effort into this:

1. Roll out the dough to half a centimeter wide.

2. Cut randomly into squares.

3. Place a little jam in the middle of each piece, moving away from the edge.

4. Close the halves of the sheet and brush the formed pies with beaten egg.

Bake them at 200ºС. Estimated readiness time is 20 minutes.

Pies with potatoes in a frying pan

The proportions for these pies are set arbitrarily, according to the tastes of the hostess and her relatives.

1. Boil the potatoes, drain the water and mash the root vegetables into a puree. Add fried onions and butter to it.

2. Place the filling in the center of the puff pastry squares and use a fork to crimp the edges of the puffs together.

Fry the pieces in an oil frying pan on both sides until golden brown.

Quick cheesecake

The proposed type of pie is called fast, not because it will be ready in a few minutes, but because it is made with a minimum of effort. For the filling you will need half a kilo of ricotta, three eggs and half a glass of cream and sugar. Stock up on a couple of tablespoons of flour.

1. Puff pastry is used as a basis. It is rolled out into a layer and placed in a pie pan. Small sides should rise above the base.

2. Cream cheese is mixed with eggs, heavy cream, two tablespoons of wheat flour, sugar and a drop of vanilla extract. All this is turned into an air mass with a mixer and poured into a mold.

The cheesecake is baked for 50 minutes. Cooking temperature – 180ºС. The finished pie must be allowed to stand in the cold.

Roll with berries and cream cheese

Immediately roll out the roll dough into a thin layer.

1. Grease it with a mixture of cream cheese, such as Philadelphia, with sugar. We take the ratios to suit our taste.

2. Place a second layer of dough on top of the first layer. Sprinkle it with almond crumbs and lay out a layer of berries.

3. Roll up the roll and make small transverse cuts on it.

4. Grease the surface of the product with egg and send it to the oven to bake at 190ºC. Approximate time until ready: 30 minutes.

The hot dessert can be brushed with butter and sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Pasties made from puff pastry without yeast

You can very quickly prepare a nutritious snack from a purchased semi-finished product. Homemade pasties will be very relevant in nature. They are delicious even when cold.

1. Divide the dough into lumps and roll each into a circle. Place minced meat fried with onions in the center and add a little grated cheese.

2. Pinch the edges of the pasties to form a crescent.

3. Fry the pies in a large amount of oil in a frying pan on both sides.

4. Place the finished pasties on a napkin to remove excess fat.

Puff pastries with bananas and chocolate spread

Puffs of yeast-free dough with banana and chocolate will charge you with energy while drinking tea and increase your productivity throughout the day. They are prepared in a matter of minutes and captivate with their divine taste.

1. Roll out the dough as usual for pies.

2. Cut it into rectangles and mentally divide each in half. Sprinkle one part, closer to the middle, with cinnamon, and put a couple of spoons of chocolate paste on the other. Add a few banana slices on top.

3. Close the envelopes by folding them in half and securing the edges. Let's make several transverse cuts.

4. Place the puff pastries in the oven, heated to 190ºC. We will bake for 20 minutes.

Sprinkle the finished pies with powdered sugar.

Croissants with chocolate for breakfast

Even a spoiled sweet tooth will love this dessert. What could be tastier than tender puff pastry combined with melted chocolate?

1. There is no need to roll out purchased sheets too much. Divide them into triangles. Place 1 - 2 slices of chocolate on one edge and roll the croissants into rolls.

2. Place the pieces on oiled parchment and place in the oven until browned. The chocolate treat is prepared at a temperature of 180ºС. It goes incredibly well with vanilla ice cream.

The food industry constantly helps us out, compensating for the lack of time with a variety of instant products. One of them is puff pastry. There is nothing easier than adding your favorite filling and preparing a delicious snack or dessert in a matter of minutes.

Step 1: prepare flour and salt.

First of all, we need to sift the flour. Thanks to this process, our dough will be tender and soft. Also, lumps will not form in it, which is also important. So, pour the flour and salt into a sieve and sift over a large dry bowl.

Step 2: prepare the butter.

Place the butter on a cutting board and use a knife to cut off a piece of butter 75 grams. We transfer most of it to a saucer and put it in the refrigerator for a while.

Place a smaller piece in a Turk and place on medium heat. Constantly stirring with a tablespoon, bring the oil to a liquid state. Immediately after this, turn off the burner and set the container aside using oven mitts. Let the melted butter cool slightly.

Step 3: prepare the puff pastry.

Pour clean water into a bowl with the sifted flour mixture in a thin stream, followed by melted butter. With clean hands, knead into a thick, elastic dough.

Attention: When the mass becomes viscous, transfer it to the kitchen table, previously sprinkled with a small amount of flour. Continue kneading the dough for 1–2 minutes until it stops sticking to your hands.
Now we form a ball from the mass, wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator to infuse for at least for 40 minutes.

After the allotted time has passed, place the butter on the kitchen table and, using a rolling pin, break it into a thin layer approximately V 1 centimeter. Try to immediately give the component a square shape.
Now we take the dough out of the refrigerator, free it from the cling film and place it next to the butter on the kitchen table, crushed with wheat flour. Roll it out into a thin rectangular shape. 1/2 part Gently spread the broken butter. Attention: As long as the component is still cooled, this should be easy to do. Cover the butter with the second half of the dough and, using a rolling pin, lightly beat it and immediately roll out the layer in one direction.

Now lightly sprinkle the dough with flour and fold it into a rectangular shape. three times.

We beat everything again and roll it out in one direction. We repeat this procedure 2–3 more times depending on how flaky you want your baked goods to be.

Next, wrap the dough in cling film and put it in the refrigerator to infuse. for 1 hour. After the allotted time has passed, I recommend repeating everything from start to finish, and so on. only 2 times with a break in 60 minutes. That’s it, the puff pastry is ready, so you can move on to the process of forming and baking the puff pastry.

Step 4: prepare puff pastry puffs.

Today you can prepare many dishes from puff pastry. These are primarily sweet and savory baked goods. The most famous puff pastry is called “tongues”. It is prepared without any filling at all, but it turns out tasty, tender and crispy. So let's get started! Turn on the oven and preheat it to temperature 200 °C. Meanwhile, on the kitchen table, dusted with a little flour, we lay out a piece of puff pastry that we prepared earlier.

Using a rolling pin, roll it out into a thin layer and immediately chop it into small strips with a knife. We cut each segment crosswise into medium squares, and then, if desired, into triangles. Don't forget to sprinkle each piece with sugar. Attention: the smaller the puff pastry, the tastier it will be, because you can immediately dip it in liquid honey or condensed milk and eat it in one fell swoop.

Now place the pieces of dough on a baking sheet moistened with ordinary cold water and place on the middle level in a preheated oven. Bake the puff pastries for 10 minutes until golden brown. After the allotted time has passed, use oven mitts to remove the container from the oven and leave it aside. Let the baked goods cool slightly. Then transfer it to a serving dish.

Another option is to make filled puff pastries. This can be jam, cottage cheese mixed with chopped dried fruits (raisins, prunes, dried apricots), stewed vegetables, minced meat (both raw and fried with onions), stewed pieces of mushrooms and much more. In general, whatever the filling is, it should not be very wet (so that the dough does not spread during baking) and in small quantities. So, put our puff pastry on a floured kitchen table and roll it out into a thin layer with a rolling pin. Then, using a knife, cut the flatbread into squares of length approximately 8–10 centimeters.

Place the filling in the center of each piece and wrap it into a rectangle or triangle. Press the open edges with a fork to prevent the seams from opening during baking. Place the puff pastries on a baking sheet greased with a small amount of vegetable oil and place on the middle level in the oven.
Preparing baked goods at temperature 200 °C during 10–15 minutes until a golden crust appears on the surface. Important: Cooking time depends on the filling inside. If it is already ready, then the above minutes are enough. If it’s raw, then it’s worth adding a little more time. For meat - 30 minutes, for cottage cheese with egg – 20–25 , for vegetables – 15–25 . At the end, turn off the oven, and take out the baking sheet using oven mitts and set it aside. When the puff pastries have cooled slightly, you can call everyone to the dessert table.

Step 5: Serve the puff pastry puffs.

Place the finished, still warm puff pastry puffs on a special plate and serve at the dessert table along with tea, coffee and other hot drinks. The baked goods turn out very tasty and tender, even if there is no filling in it.
Enjoy your meal!

Before baking, the “tongues” can also be greased with beaten egg yolk and sugar;

The puff pastries can be given any shape. For example, round, square, rectangular, roll. Place the dough in muffin tins and bake into baskets, into which you can then add any filling, for example, jam or berries mixed with sugar;

To prepare puff pastry, use only the highest grade, finely ground flour and a trusted brand. It is best to use homemade butter, then the baked goods will turn out not only very tasty, but also soft and flaky.

Crispy, tasty, melt-in-the-mouth puff pastry buns and pies are one of the favorite delicacies, the recipe for which first appeared in France. One day, a student of the French pastry chef, Claudius Gele, had the idea to wrap a piece of butter in the dough, and then roll it out, doing this several times. The result was an airy, light, buttery puff pastry that is still popular in national cuisines around the world. It’s easy to prepare at home, because frozen puff pastry can be bought in the store. But the aerobatics is to make puff pastries with your own hands from homemade dough, because it turns out tastier than semi-finished products.

How to cook puff pastries

The recipe for puff pastries is considered universal, because it can be used to prepare a wide variety of baked goods. Puff pastries are made from puff pastry without and with filling, and pies can be sweet or savory, open or closed. However, the main secret of delicious puff pastries lies not in the filling, but in the dough, which is prepared using a large amount of butter.

The process of making the dough involves covering unleavened or yeast dough with butter and rolling the resulting “sandwich” many times to create a flaky texture. The more layers, the fluffier the puff pastries will be, since the oil evaporates in the oven, due to which the layers are separated from each other by a layer of air. In this case, you need to roll out the dough in a thin layer and make sure that it does not tear, periodically cooling it in the refrigerator. Afterwards, puff pastries are formed from the dough, filled with filling and baked in the oven. Baking made from yeast dough is soft and tender, while baked goods from unleavened dough are crispy and fragile. Making puff pastry is a complex and masterly process, which you can still master on your own if you really want to.

Fillings for puff pastries

The options for sweet fillings are very varied: boiled condensed milk, pieces of chocolate, dried fruits, canned, fresh fruits and berries, jam, preserves, cottage cheese, nuts, cream, marmalade or just cinnamon and sugar. If using liquid jam, it should be thickened with cornstarch to prevent the filling from leaking out during baking. You can add lemon and orange zest, spices, sesame seeds and poppy seeds to the filling for taste and aroma. Sweet puff pastries are an excellent dessert and a complete snack with tea and coffee.

Puff pastries with savory fillings are served as an appetizer for soup and main courses, so they often replace bread. The most popular savory fillings are cheese, meat, poultry, fish, eggs, ham, mushrooms and vegetables. Very tasty combinations of spinach with cheese, chicken with ham, meat with mushrooms, eggs with onions, cream cheese with seafood, potatoes with lentils and many others. It’s worth experimenting here, creating delicious combinations with spices and herbs.

Secrets to making delicious puff pastries: the right ingredients

According to classic puff pastry recipes, a layer of unleavened puff pastry should contain about 300 layers, and a layer of yeast dough should contain from 24 to 96 layers. This is hardly possible at home, so housewives often use simpler recipes for quick-ripening puff pastry. There are some subtleties, knowledge of which will help you prepare tender and airy puff pastries.

For delicious puff pastry, choose flour with a high gluten content - these are the “Extra”, “Krupchatka”, premium and first grade varieties. It is advisable to sift the flour. Use cold, not ice-cold water, while some housewives replace part of the water with milk or add only milk - it turns out delicious, but the dough loses its elasticity. The dosage of salt is also important, since if there is not enough salt, the layers of dough may spread. To improve elasticity, culinary experts advise adding a few drops of vinegar or lemon juice when kneading.

Whether to use butter or creamy margarine is a matter of personal preference. Of course, it tastes better with butter, but modern baking margarine with a high melting point is also suitable for puff pastries, since it produces particularly fluffy baked goods. But you should not use spreads or cheap butter substitutes for dough. Before working with the dough, the butter is usually cooled without freezing, otherwise the thin dough will tear when rolling. Sometimes eggs or yolks, a little cognac or other strong alcohol are added to the dough to improve the taste.

How to roll out dough correctly

First, all the ingredients specified in the recipe are mixed, with the yeast added at the very end. While the dough rests for 30–40 minutes under a towel or cling film, the butter is mixed with a small amount of flour for plasticity, then a rectangular layer is formed from it, which is placed in the refrigerator. After this, a layer is rolled out from the dough, butter is placed in the middle, the ends of the dough are lifted and pinched at the top with an envelope. The dough is rolled out in one direction, folded into three or four and left in a cool place so that the butter hardens a little. Then the procedure of rolling and folding the dough is repeated several more times. By the way, the room should be cool, otherwise the butter will start to melt, and you will have to put the dough in the refrigerator more often.

Cutting dough into puff pastry and baking

The most important thing when cutting is to preserve the layered structure, so the knife must be very sharp. Puff pastry is flexible and can be easily molded into puff pastry of any shape. You can cut the dough into squares and put a little filling on top, you can cut the rectangles diagonally and make bagels. If you roll the rectangular layers into rolls, cut them in half, make small cuts in the center and turn the rolls out, you will get puff curls. Puff pastries in the form of roses and croissants, rectangular and shaped pies, envelopes and baskets with filling look very beautiful.

Before putting the puff pastries in the oven, their tops are greased with yolk for color, but it is better not to grease the edges of the products, otherwise they will become tough. The puff pastries are placed on a cool baking sheet covered with baking paper, rest for a few minutes (no more, otherwise the oil will leak) and placed in the oven, preheated to 180–240 °C, depending on the recipe. At a lower baking temperature, the dough will not rise well and the butter will melt, resulting in flat puff pastries without a flaky texture. If you bake them at a very high temperature, the puff pastries will quickly brown, but the inside will remain raw.

Air puff pastry: master class

Ingredients: wheat flour with a high gluten content - 250 g (a little flour for sprinkling), cold water - 130 ml, butter - 150 g, salt - on the tip of a knife, thick jam or marmalade - to taste, eggs for brushing the dough - 1 pc.

A step-by-step puff pastry recipe is an easy way to learn how to bake puff pastries for a dessert or snack. This recipe uses the classic puff pastry method.

Cooking method:

1. Sift the flour and mix it with salt.

2. Mix flour with 30 g of soft butter, mash well.

3. Pour water into the butter-flour mixture in small portions and knead the dough.

4. Knead the dough for 5 minutes until it becomes elastic and soft, but the dough should not stick to your hands.

5. Let the dough rest for about 20-30 minutes under a towel.

6. Roll out the dough into a rectangle measuring approximately 13 by 25 cm.

7. Place a piece of the remaining butter on the rectangle and smooth it in the middle, leaving the edges, because you will have to bend them towards the center.

8. Fold the edges of the dough into an envelope.

9. Turn the dough seam side down, lightly sprinkle with flour and gently roll out with a rolling pin. Make a large rectangle 2-3 times larger than the original rectangle.

10. Brush off any remaining flour from the dough, otherwise these areas will become discolored during baking. Fold the dough into three layers, wrap in cling film and refrigerate for half an hour.

11. Roll out the dough into a large rectangle and fold it into thirds again. Repeat this procedure 5 more times, refrigerating the dough if necessary.

12. Roll out the finished multi-layer dough and cut out small squares of approximately 7 × 7 cm.

13. Place a little thick jam or marmalade in the middle of each square.

14. Brush the edges of the squares with beaten egg using a silicone brush.

15. Connect the opposite ends of the dough, and slightly fold the other ends inward to form unfinished envelopes.

16. Place the puff pastries on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and brush them again with beaten egg.

17. Bake the dessert in the oven preheated to 180°C for 20 minutes.

18. Sprinkle the finished and slightly cooled puff pastries with powdered sugar.

If you make a lot of dough at once, you can store it in the freezer and use it as needed. Puff pastries made from homemade dough are tastier and fluffier than store-bought puff pastries - you will see for yourself!

Puff pastries with cheese and sausage

These puff pastries are good for breakfast, and they are ready instantly if you defrost 400 g of puff pastry prepared by yourself in advance. Grate 100 g of cheese, cut into small pieces 100 g of smoked chicken and 2 sausages. Mix all the ingredients and season them with sour cream to taste. Roll out the dough and cut it into rectangles. Place a little filling on one half of each rectangle, cover with the other half and seal the edges well. Place the puff pastries on a greased baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes at 180°C until they are golden brown. If you have time, you can brush the pies with egg, but in the morning everyone is in a hurry, so you can skip this culinary step - they will still turn out rosy and delicious!

French puff pastries with Nutella and raspberry jam

This delicious dessert will brighten up any tea party and is quite easy to make. Roll out 0.5 kg of puff pastry and cut the layer into rectangles, cut the edges diagonally. Place 6 tbsp in the middle of each rectangle. l. chocolate paste. Gather the puff pastry into a herringbone pattern, pinch the edges nicely and brush the top of the puff pastry with beaten egg. Make several cuts in the top of the pie with a sharp knife, place the products on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and bake the French puff pastries for 20 minutes at 200 ° C - the oven should already be heated to the desired temperature. Nutella puffs that melt in your mouth - what could be tastier?

Cook with joy for your family and enjoy tasting puff pastries with different fillings during lunches and dinners together!

Every housewife has several culinary secrets and tricks that she does not share with others. Some people know how to make a great salad out of nothing, some have their great-grandmother’s recipe for making baked duck, and some cook such children’s dishes that adults look at them with envy.
Today we will reveal one of these secrets and talk about how you can prepare cheese puffs from ready-made puff pastry for tea in five minutes.

There are several filling options, as well as original ways to bake puff pastries: in a frying pan, in a slow cooker or even in the microwave.

Cheese puffs: collecting ingredients

One of a woman’s main assistants in the kitchen: a good supply of semi-finished products in the freezer. No, no, not that terrible frozen something that can be seen in supermarket windows, but semi-finished dishes that the hostess herself prepared for future use. Such useful preparations include puff pastry.

If you have ready-made dough, you won’t have to rack your brains over what to serve for tea if guests happen to arrive. The recipe is simple: take out the workpiece, while it is defrosting, prepare the filling, and put it in the oven for 20 minutes. The puff pastries turn out ruddy and fluffy - at least take a photo.

You can also make them based on puff pastry, but their preparation will take much longer.

I recorded a detailed video on how to prepare yeast puff pastry at home and make croissants from it. Welcome to my You Tube channel, I wish you a pleasant viewing!

You can fill puff pastries with anything, but now let’s try to make puff pastries with cheese.

What you'll need

• 500 g puff pastry. Use yeast or without yeast - decide for yourself. If you like soft, fluffy baked goods, it’s better to take yeast dough; if you like crunchiness, use the second option.
• 200 g cheese. The most popular recipe is puff pastries with hard cheese. Gourmets can recommend Parmesan, cheddar or Emmental. If these names don’t mean anything to you, buy regular “Russian”, “Poshekhonsky” or “Kostromskoy” cheese. Want to experiment? Take 100 g of hard cheese and 100 g of Feta cheese, you get a pie similar to khachapuri.
• 1 egg.
• Optional: garlic, sesame.

How to cook

You wouldn’t even have to write about cooking puff pastries in the oven – it’s so simple.

• Turn on the oven and adjust the temperature to 200 C.
• Place the dough to defrost. It is best to take the layer out of the freezer and simply leave it on a floured table.
• Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.
• If you want, you can add finely chopped (or crushed in a special tool) garlic to the cheese; this will add a wonderful aroma and a pleasant tang to your puff pastries.
• Roll out the defrosted dough so that the thickness is no more than 3 mm.
• Cut the layer into squares, you should get 8 pieces.
• Place filling in the center of each square.
• Beat the egg in a separate cup and use a pastry brush to outline the edges of the future layers for better bonding.
• Fold the puff pastries into triangles or squares, whichever you prefer. The edges can be nicely pinched or decorated with a fork.
• Brush the pies with egg wash. You can sprinkle them with sesame seeds - both for taste and for beauty.
• Place the puff pastries in a hot oven for 20 minutes.
• This miracle should be served hot.

Microwave crispy puff pastry

It happens that you can’t cook in an oven: either you don’t have one, or it’s temporarily not functioning, or it’s too hot at home without baking. In this case, there is a great idea: bake puff pastries in the microwave!

You can whip it up from ready-made puff pastry. Simple and delicious - take note of the recipe!

Required Products

• 500 g puff pastry
• 200 g cheese
• 1 teaspoon mustard
• 1 teaspoon mayonnaise
• 1 teaspoon ketchup
• Greens to taste.

Baking from the microwave

Many people think that you can’t cook delicious food in a microwave, especially baked goods. Dispel this myth yourself by trying this cheese puff recipe.

1. Defrost the dough, roll it out into a layer 2-3 mm thick and cut into rectangles.
2. For the filling, grind the cheese using a grater, add mayonnaise, mustard and ketchup. You can also add herbs to taste.
3. Place the filling on the dough, form into puffs and coat with beaten egg.
4. We place the preparations on a microwave-safe plate and put them in the oven.
5. Set the microwave to 800 W. Bake the pies for exactly 10 minutes.
6. At the end of baking, do not rush to remove the puff pastries from the oven, leave them there for another five minutes, and then serve immediately.

Incredibly tender puff pastries from the slow cooker

If you are the lucky owner of a multicooker, try making puff pastries in it. The recipe is no different from the previous ones, but we will describe the preparation method in detail.

1. Prepare the dough as before.
2. Make your favorite cheese filling.
3. We form puff pastries and brush them thoroughly with egg on one side.
4. Pour 20 ml into the multicooker bowl. vegetable oil, set the “Baking” mode or 180 C for 25 minutes.
5. We wait until the bowl warms up a little.
6. Place the pies in one layer, greased side down, coat the other side with egg, close the lid and cook the puffs for 15 minutes.
7. Open the lid, turn the puff pastry so the golden side is up, close the lid and bake for another 10 minutes.
8. The crust of the multicooker puff pastries turns out very crispy.

In a frying pan: quick and easy

If you don’t trust the microwave, don’t have a multicooker, and don’t want to turn on the oven, you can cook the puff pastries in a regular frying pan. The recipe is the same, the cooking process is similar. Just put the pies not in the multicooker bowl, but in a hot frying pan. It must first be lubricated with vegetable oil.

You need to fry the puffs for five minutes on each side.

By the way, in this version, instead of puff pastry, you can use thin pita bread, then the recipe will be very simple and quick.

Puff pastries are the easiest baked goods to prepare, and there are a lot of options for preparing them. If you want, put it in the oven, if you want, fry it in a frying pan, if you want, bake it in the microwave or in a slow cooker. The result will still be the same - a delicious photo of rosy pies, the aroma of fresh baked goods in the house and the good mood of the household.

Using ready-made puff pastry is, of course, convenient, but it’s much nicer to make puff pastry with your own hands. I explain in detail how to do this in the croissant video recipe on our Pirogeevo channel, enjoy watching!

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