Today, in supermarkets and on street stalls with pastries, you can often see frozen puff pastry on sale . Many people buy it. But more often we just don’t know what can be cooked from puff pastry, and we pass by.
But it can become the basis for delicious pastries, both sweet and not. We will tell you today exactly what and how to cook from this variety of dough.
Features of puff pastry
To prepare the dough in layers, the simplest products are used: salt, oil (or margarine), eggs, flour and water. Sugar is not added, which is why there are many options for what can be prepared from puff pastry, starting with pizza and sweet cakes and ending with a beer snack in the form of wickers with salt and seeds or sesame seeds.
Despite the simplicity of the ingredients, the cooking process itself is very lengthy and is not suitable for every housewife, as it requires a lot of patience and dexterity. However, having prepared it once, you can freeze it and always have in the freezer a small piece of baking dough. It is for these two reasons that it is prepared on an industrial scale and is sold to us ready-made.
Recipes
Each housewife periodically asks herself a question about what can be cooked. Puff pastry in this case is a great helper and friend of any woman. If we are talking about full-fledged dishes, the first thing that comes to mind is, of course, pizza. Everything is very simple: after thawing, the dough is rolled into a thin layer and laid out on a baking sheet, oiled. The filling can be anything: ham, chicken, mushrooms, balyk, vegetables, olives, tomatoes and, of course, cheese. Everything is baked in an oven preheated to 200-250 degrees for 20 minutes. Do not forget also that the time and temperature at which you will cook depends on the nature of your oven and can vary a little, both up and down.
But this is not all, there are many recipes for what can be prepared from puff pastry for tea. In itself, it has a completely neutral taste, and this is its huge plus, since the filling can be absolutely anything: jam,
boiled condensed milk, chocolate, berries. If you want, you can make
unsweetened pastries, such as croissants with ham and cheese or chicken with mushrooms. The recipe is very simple. The dough sheet needs to be rolled out as thinly as possible (about 4 millimeters). Then cut it into triangles of the same size. You can lay out the filling of your choice. You need to fold croissants correctly, starting from a wide edge, and do not forget to give the resulting tubes the shape of a crescent. In order for the finished baking to acquire a pleasant golden hue, grease it with whipped yolk on top before baking. Croissants are cooked in the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 200-220 degrees. Note that each oven is individual. Therefore, the cooking time may vary slightly, as well as the temperature.
Puff pastry with cottage cheese
Sweet rolls are very high-calorie and do not bring benefits to children, but you really want to pamper them. Here, universal puff pastry will come to the rescue, which will be an excellent basis for tasty and not very harmful baking.
The recipe for curd envelopes for children is as follows: for the filling, beat the curd (250 grams) with blender (or mix with a mixer), sour cream (2 tablespoons) and a little sugar to taste. Roll 500 grams of thawed dough into a thin sheet and divide the rectangles into the same size. In the middle of each of them, place the filling and wrap future envelopes, connecting the free ends. Lubricate with whipped yolk on top to make your items a beautiful golden color, and bake at 200 degrees for about 15 minutes. A delicious and healthy dessert is ready, bon appetit!
In general, there are still a lot of recipes for what can be prepared from puff pastry: just puffs with sugar and poppy seeds or croissants with complex filling. You can bake delicious cake cakes and soak them with your favorite cream. It all depends on your imagination and courage.