It is not necessary to cook the dough yourself in order to make delicious croissants. Moreover, if you were not especially friends with the test before. Save your nerves and time and cook croissants from ready-made puff pastry. Believe me, they will be no worse than store croissants. And if you try, then it’s better.
Quick croissants from ready-made puff pastry
In order to cook such croissants you will need:
- one egg yolk (for lubrication);
- filling (here you can safely focus on your taste);
- finished puff pastry.
And now we will tell you how to make a croissant.
First of all, you need to lay out the dough for 30-50 minutes so that it defrosts. Your dough should be soft.
Next, take a rolling pin and roll our dough into a rectangle. The thickness of the rectangle should be about four millimeters. By the way, it will depend on the thickness of the dough how magnificent the croissants will turn out.
When the dough is rolled, you need to cut it into identical triangles. Then in the middle of the triangle we place the filling. It can be chocolate, condensed milk, jam, cream, cottage cheese and much more.
It remains only to collapse each triangle, starting from the wide end. Thus, you will get bagels, and when you bend them so that you get the shape of a crescent, then you will see a croissant.
Now it remains only to beat the egg yolk and grease the resulting croissants with it (it is because of the egg that the croissants are golden).
We turn on the oven at a temperature of two hundred degrees and put our croissants there. Croissants are baked for about 15-30 minutes. It depends on their size and the characteristics of your oven.
That's how simple and quick croissants are made from ready-made puff pastry.
Do you want to enjoy the taste of real croissants? Then prepare French croissants, the recipe of which we will offer you.
French croissants
Ingredients for the dough:
- 550 grams of flour;
- fifty grams of starch;
- 35 grams of butter;
- 10 grams of dry yeast ;
- 150 milliliters of water;
- 50 milliliters of milk;
- seven teaspoons of sugar;
- 325 grams of butter (in order to lubricate the dough);
- egg yolk (also for greasing dough).
Cooking method
First you need to sift the flour and mix it with a baking powder. Then add a little salt, sugar, yeast and mix well.
Then pour in a thin stream of milk, and also add butter (softened) and water. Knead the dough, then cover it with cling film and leave until it doubles.
After the dough has risen, you need to crush it and hide in the refrigerator for an hour and a half.
He takes out the dough from the refrigerator and put it on the table, sprinkled with flour.
In the mind, we divide the dough into three parts, two of them are greased with butter. Then we fold the dough in this way: first we bend the non-greased part of the dough, and then the greased one. You get a kind of book. Back we hide our dough in the refrigerator for an hour (so that the oil freezes).
We take out the dough from the refrigerator and do the previous operation again, and put the dough in the refrigerator for another half hour.
This procedure must be repeated three more times.
When the dough is ready, roll it into a thin layer, then cut out a circle from it and divide it into eight parts. We turn each part into a croissant shape.
We leave our croissants so that they come up, and then grease them with yolk and transfer to a baking sheet, previously greased with sunflower oil.
The oven should already be preheated to 220 degrees, but you need a croissant oven at a temperature of 190 degrees until a brown crust appears.
Serve the croissants when they cool slightly. Bon Appetit!
Now you can not only indulge yourself with real French croissants, but also treat guests who accidentally arrived, having prepared quick croissants from ready-made puff pastry.