Puff pastry with apples from yeast-free puff pastry is a great option for a quick dessert. If there is a package of ready-made dough in the freezer, then you can meet guests, because such puffs are prepared very quickly!
Delicious Puffs: List of Ingredients
For a simple and quick recipe, you need to take the following products:
- 400 grams of dough;
- three apples. It is better to choose sweet and sour varieties;
- three tablespoons of sugar;
- one egg;
- a tablespoon of milk;
- half a teaspoon of cinnamon.
To decorate puffs with apples from yeast-free puff pastry, you can also take powdered sugar.
How to cook puffs?
Puff pastry needs to be thawed in advance. It is best to lay it on a board, cover with a towel and leave it overnight. But if time is running out, then you can defrost in a microwave oven, the main thing is to make sure that the dough is not cooked.
The oven is immediately set at two hundred degrees so that it warms up. After that, they proceed to the preparation of the filling.
They wash the apples, peel them, remove the middle. Cut into small cubes. A couple tablespoons of sugar is added to the fruit, mixed and left for a while. When the juice comes out, squeeze it. The filling should be dry! Otherwise, the puff pastry will get wet.
Roll the puff pastry lightly so that it becomes 0.5 centimeters thick. Cut everything into quarters. Half fill the filling, about a tablespoon. Put apples in the middle so that they do not "run away" when cooking.
The second part of the dough is cut with a knife to make beautiful strips. But if you wish, you can make closed puffs with apples from puff pastry. They cover the layer with the filling, fix the edges carefully so that the filling does not leak out. For beauty, you can decorate the edges with a fork, pressing on the dough.
Surface lubrication and baking
How good is this recipe for puff pastries with apples from puff pastry? It allows you to get a crispy and beautiful crust! Separate the yolk from the egg, combine it with milk and carefully beat with a fork so that the mass becomes homogeneous. To make the crust more crispy, you can add a pinch of salt.
Parchment is laid on a baking sheet, puffs are laid, greased with a mixture of eggs and milk.
Now mix the remaining sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle them with puffs. On the surface of the puffs, the mixture is easily fixed, because they are wet from the egg. You can also sprinkle raw puffs with cold water, so the dough rises faster.
Send puffs in the oven for twenty minutes. Before serving puffs with apples from yeast-free puff pastry, you need to cool, so they will be tastier and the filling will not be burned. Cooled puffs sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Another filling option
You can prepare the filling in another way. According to this recipe, apples are also thick, do not fall apart inside the puffs.
To do this, take:
- three apples;
- a teaspoon of butter;
- some vanilla or plain sugar.
Melt the butter in a pan. The apples are peeled and diced, sent to the pan, sugar added. They mix everything. Stew apples for about ten minutes to make the mass thicker. Cool down. The rest is prepared as puffs with apples from puff pastry, a step-by-step recipe for which is described above.
Tasty puffs with lemon juice
For this dessert option you need to take:
- 400 grams of dough;
- five tablespoons of water;
- three apples;
- four tablespoons of sugar;
- half a teaspoon of lemon juice;
- one egg yolk;
- some cinnamon and nutmeg for flavor.
In this embodiment, the filling is boiled, so it turns out to be soft and tender.
How to cook puff pastry with apples? See photos and recommendations below.
They wash the apples, peel, remove the middle. Cut the pulp into small cubes.
In the pan put fruit, water, three tablespoons of granulated sugar and lemon juice. Sprinkle with cinnamon and nutmeg. All cook over low heat, stirring occasionally. As a result, apples should become softer, but not turn into mashed potatoes. On average, it takes about ten minutes. If there was not enough liquid in the process, then you can pour another tablespoon of water.
Roll out the dough. Cut it into eight parts. The baking sheet is covered with parchment and slices of dough are laid. On each stack two tablespoons of flavorful filling.
Beat the egg yolk with a spoonful of cold water to make it homogeneous. The edges of the dough are greased with the resulting mass and squares are folded in half. Fasten the edges. Top smear the puff with the remnants of the egg. So do with every treat. Sprinkle the puff with the remains of granulated sugar. Bake puffs with apples from a yeast-free puff pastry for twenty minutes in the oven. The temperature is adjusted to 200 degrees. Ready puffs are cooled. They can also be decorated with icing sugar.
Starch Recipe
For this option of delicious puff, you need to take the following products:
- 500 grams of dough;
- three apples;
- a tablespoon of starch;
- three tablespoons of sugar;
- one egg;
- a tablespoon of powdered sugar;
- some flour so that the dough does not stick to the board.
The oven is immediately set to 180 degrees so that it can heat up. Usually in the package there are three layers of dough. Three strips of dough are made from each. Each rectangle is rolled to a thickness of three millimeters. So that the dough does not stick to the board, it is lightly sprinkled with flour before rolling.
Now begin to prepare the filling for puffs. The apples are peeled, the middle removed and cut into cubes. They put sugar and starch to them. Mix so that the starch is evenly distributed over all the pieces. Divide the filling into nine parts, for each puff. Lay on one half, cover the other.
Pour a little flour on a baking tray, lay out the future dessert. Beat the egg thoroughly with a fork and grease the puffs with it. After sent to the oven for 25 minutes. You can also make puffs more beautiful. To do this, half, which cover the filling, is cut in the middle. Then the dessert will be open.
Ready and already cooled puffs are sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Delicious puff pastry puffs are a great dessert for the whole family. This dish is tender, crispy and fragrant. Therefore, they can treat guests. And it is preparing very quickly! So you should always keep in the freezer a package of puff yeast-free dough.