RCI-BR.007.0103.001
Puff pastry
240px| Apple turnover, made with puff pastry In baking, (French: ) is a light, flaky pastry made from dough of the same name. The dough, which is also called puff paste, consists of many layers of fat sandwiched between layers of dough.
Prep25 min
Cook30 min
Total55 min
Servings4
Difficultybeginner
Ingredients
- 2½ lbs
- ½ oz
- 1½ lbs
- (40 oz) Room Temp Butter (1125g)2½ lbs
- 4 oz
Method
1
Mix the salt in with the larger portion of flour.
1 minutes
2
Add the cold water to the flour and salt and work it into a dough.
3 minutes
3
Knead about 80 times to make a soft dough and build some gluten.
5 minutes
4
Flatten out the dough (allows quicker cooling) and refrigerate.
2 minutes
5
Combine the room temperature butter and the smaller portion of flour and mix well. It will form a soft paste that is easy to spread.
2 minutes
6
Take the chilled dough and roll it into a rectangle about ¼-½ inch thick.
5 minutes
7
Leaving a one inch margin around the edge, spread the butter out over ⅔rds of the dough.
3 minutes
8
Fold the dough into thirds like you were folding a letter, starting with the portion of dough with no butter.
2 minutes
9
Refrigerate for 20-30 minutes to allow the dough to relax, and so the butter doesn't get displaced when rolling out again.
25 minutes
10
Roll out the dough again to a large rectangle the same size as the first.
5 minutes
11
Fold the dough so that the two short edges meet in the center and then fold the dough in half. This should give the dough four layers and is, as a result, called a four-fold.
3 minutes
12
Refrigerate the dough again and then roll out and do another four-fold. Repeat this step two more times. You now have classical puff pastry dough to use as you see please.
36 minutes