Puff pastry layers are always lush, tasty and very juicy. It should be noted that such baking can be made from any favorite filling. Today we will present to your attention several simple and quite affordable recipes that can be used both for making rich products and for creating unsweetened pies. In addition, methods for kneading puff yeast and yeast-free dough, which can be used to prepare completely different dishes, will be described in detail below.
How to cook puffs with meat and mushrooms?
Such unsweetened pies are best made from puff yeast dough, because only in this way you will get very lush and soft products that you can quickly eat. But, unlike the fresh base, the jar is created much longer.
Essential Products
To make puff pastry puffs along with meat and mushrooms, you should pre-purchase all the ingredients for the base.
So we need:
- wheat flour - from 3 faceted glasses (to the density of the dough);
- non-fat milk or ordinary drinking water - 250 ml;
- dry granulated yeast - dessert spoon (without a slide);
- granulated sugar - a large spoon;
- small iodized salt - half a spoon;
- large chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- fresh butter - 350 g.
Kneading process
To make puff pastry yeast puffs, you should first knead the sponge base. To do this, you need to take a medium pan, pour in non-fat milk or ordinary drinking water into it, and then slightly heat and dissolve the granulated sugar. Next, pour dry granular yeast into the dishes and wait until they swell. After that, the chicken egg should be broken into the dough, and also add small iodized salt and wheat flour. All ingredients must be mixed well so that the resulting dough does not stick to your hands.
When all the above steps are completed, you need to melt 200 g of butter in a bowl, cool it completely and pour into the dishes with the base. Thus, the dough should be mixed until the cooking oil is combined with it. Further, it is recommended to cover the base with a napkin and a lid, and then keep it warm (in the sun, near the battery, etc.) for about 2 hours.
After the specified time, the approached dough must be divided into 3 equal parts and rolled into layers 1–1.3 cm thick. Next, the surface of the first sheet of the yeast base must be greased with melted butter and covered with the next one, on which cooking oil must also be applied. As a result, you should get 2 layers of oil and 3 - dough. After this, the base should be sprinkled with wheat flour and immediately rolled out to a thickness of 2 centimeters, then folded four times and repeat the procedure. Similarly, the dough needs to be processed until in aggregate you get 32 layers. At the end, the finished base should be placed in a refrigerator (in a bag) for about 60 minutes. At the same time, you can start preparing the filling.
Required Ingredients for Meat Filling
To make puffs with meat and mushrooms, it is recommended to prepare two different fillings, since, combining both of these components together, you will get very heavy products for the stomach. So, for meat pies we need:
- fat young beef - 260 g;
- pork without fat (pulp) - 260 g;
- white sweet onion - 3 heads;
- black pepper, red, salt, small and dried dill - add to taste;
- Sunflower oil - to lubricate the form.
The process of preparing the filling (minced meat)
In this recipe, we will tell you how to make puff pastry puffs using mixed minced meat. To prepare the filling, we took fatty young beef and pork pulp without fat. They should be washed, cleaned of veins and films, and then chopped in a meat grinder, alternating with the heads of white sweet onions. After all the ingredients are chopped, you need to add black and red pepper, fine salt and dried dill, and then mix well by hand.
The process of forming products and their baking
The approached puff yeast dough should be divided into 4 equal parts, and then rolled each of them into a thin, but large layer. Next, the base sheet needs to be cut into squares with sides of 10 centimeters. After that, in each piece of dough (in one of the corners), you need to put a large spoonful of meat filling, gently crush it, then cover it with another edge and pinch with a fork. As a result, you should get neat and beautiful triangles that should be placed on a greased baking sheet and put in the oven.
Due to the fact that puff pastry puffs were made with raw meat filling, it is recommended to bake them for at least 50 minutes. During this time, the minced meat will cook well, give a fragrant broth, and the base will become rosy, soft and lush.
Mushroom Pies
If you prefer to use pies not with meat, but with tasty and fragrant mushrooms, then below we will talk in detail about how to prepare champignon filling for such products. As for the test, in this recipe we will also use puff yeast base.
So, for puffs with mushrooms we need:
- white onion - 3 heads;
- Smelling sunflower oil - at personal discretion;
- fresh greens - a small bunch;
- fresh champignons - 600 g;
- ground black pepper, small salt - add to taste.
Cooking toppings
Preparing such unsweetened filling is quite easy and fast. First you need to process all the necessary components. To do this, wash fresh mushrooms and chop them into small cubes. It is also necessary to do with onions. Next, both components should be put in a saucepan, flavored with odorless sunflower oil, ground black pepper, chopped herbs and small salt. In this composition, the ingredients need to be fried until soft and golden brown. In this case, do not add water to the dishes.
Puff formation and heat treatment
Such mushroom products are formed in exactly the same way as with meat filling, but they are baked in the oven in only 30-35 minutes. Indeed, for the complete preparation of products, we need to wait only for baking puff yeast dough. And the above time is quite enough for this.
How to make cheese and ham puffs?
Such products are prepared much faster than previous versions of pies. Indeed, to create them, you do not need to make the filling for a long time, since only hard cheese and a stick of fragrant ham should be purchased for it. In addition, we decided to form puffs from the ready-made puff pastry, which can be bought at the grocery store at any time.
So, to create quick pies with cheese and ham, we need:
- hard cheese - 150 g;
- aromatic ham - 200 g;
- vegetable oil - to lubricate the pan;
- ready puff pastry (preferably yeast) - 2 standard packages.
Basic Product Preparation
To prepare puffs with cheese and ham, you should get the purchased puff pastry from the freezer in advance and completely defrost it at room temperature. At the same time, you can start preparing the filling. To do this, you need to take aromatic ham and cut it into very thin and long straws. Next, in a separate plate, grate the hard cheese on a fine grater.
Forming and baking puffs
After the components for the filling are ready, and the convenience store is completely thawed, you can immediately proceed to the formation of puff products. It should be noted that they are not formatted as in previous recipes. After all, if you wrap ham with cheese in the form of miniature triangles, then during the heat treatment the milk product will melt and drain onto a baking sheet, ruining the whole dish. That is why the finished semi-finished product should be rolled along one side, and then cut into rectangles, put ham straws, grated cheese in the middle and wrap it with a roll so that (bending the edges) so that the filling completely remains inside. Next, the formed puffs must be placed on a greased sheet and put in the oven for about half an hour. During this time, the dough will cook well, and the filling in the form of grated cheese will melt, giving the pies a soft and delicate taste.
How to make sweet puffs for tea from a yeast-free base?
Sweet puff pastry puffs are no more complicated than meat or mushroom pies. Today we decided to cook such delicious products using a puff yeast-free base, which we knead on our own at home.
So, for the preparation of fresh puff pastry, we need:
- wheat flour - 4-5 glasses;
- ordinary drinking water - 450 ml;
- butter - 500 g;
- citric acid - 15-16 drops;
- small chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- shallow sea salt - half a spoon.
Kneading process
To make such a fresh dough, pour drinking water into a deep container, and then add citric acid, beaten chicken egg and sea salt to it. All components must be mixed well, and then proceed to the second part of the base. To create it, it is recommended to use only ice cream butter. It should be taken in an amount of 300 g, and then grind on a large grater and grind together with wheat flour so that the cooking oil does not have time to soften. Next, the bulk product must be laid out in a previously prepared liquid mixture and knead thoroughly until an elastic and cool dough is obtained. After this, it is recommended that the base be placed in a bag and kept in the refrigerator for about half an hour.
After the specified time, the dough must be removed, divided into 5 equal parts and rolled into thin layers. Next, each base sheet should be greased liberally with softened butter, placed on top of each other and rolled again. After this, the resulting layer must be folded four times and repeat the rolling process. These actions are preferably carried out several more times. After all, the more the dough is folded, the more magnificent and soft the sweet cakes will turn out.
Products with fresh apples and sweet fruit jam
Puffs from puff yeast-free dough are formed as easily and quickly as from a sponge base. For this, the mixed semi-finished product must be removed from the refrigerator, divided into two parts and rolled into a thin layer. Next, the dough sheet should be cut into small squares with sides of 10 centimeters, put on one half a dessert spoon of apple jam, cover with the second part, and then tightly pinch the edges with your fingers or a fork. To make puffs with apple jam more beautiful, several small cuts can be made on the surface of the semi-finished product. In the process of heat treatment, they will open, making the dish palatable and attractive to guests.
It should be noted that such a dessert is baked in the oven in just 25-29 minutes. After this time, puffs with apple jam must be carefully laid out on a plate, and sprinkled with powdered sugar or ground cinnamon.
By the way, you can make sweet cakes from puff yeast-free base using absolutely any fresh fruits and berries. Well, such products are obtained from slices of banana, fresh or frozen berries, and so on. Today we will tell you how to cook puffs with apples. For this we need:
- granulated sugar - 100 g;
- sweet red apples - 4-5 pcs.;
- home-made puff yeast dough - 250 g.
Product Preparation
To make such a homemade and very delicious dessert sweet, despite the fact that fresh dough is used for its preparation, experienced chefs recommend using only red non-sour apples and granulated sugar. Thus, fresh fruits need to be washed, peeled and cut into thin slices.
The formation and baking of dessert
In order to prepare puffs with apples, you must first knead puff yeast-free dough according to the above recipe. It must be rolled into a thick layer, cut into small squares and placed in one corner of several slices of a sweet apple, sprinkled with sugar in the amount of ½ dessert spoon. Next, you need to cover the fruits with the second part of the base and pinch the edges so that the melted granulated sugar can not leak out. Such products should not be cooked in the oven for long, about 30 minutes. Then they need to be taken out, cooled and sprinkled with powder.
Delicious homemade curd products
Puffs with cottage cheese and raisins are very tasty and nutritious. They can be eaten for breakfast or given to children for school for a quick and healthy snack. To prepare such a dessert, you will need to purchase the following ingredients:
- home-made puff yeast or yeast-free dough or purchased - 500 g;
- non-acidic dry coarse curd - 300 g;
- large chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- granulated sugar - 3 large spoons;
- sunflower oil - to lubricate the form;
- raisins dark pitted - 2/3 cup.
Filling process
Before forming puffs with cottage cheese and raisins, you should knead the base well. It should be noted that such sweet products can be made from both puff yeast and yeast-free dough. The recipe for a detailed preparation of such a basis is presented just above.
Next, you need to make a sweet curd filling. To do this, scalp the dark seedless raisins with boiling water, wash it well using a colander, and then deprive it of liquid and pour it into the dry cottage cheese along with granulated sugar. After that, add a beaten chicken egg to the dairy product and mix everything thoroughly. As a result, you should get a non-liquid curd base. If desired, vanillin or lemon zest can be added to it.
The process of forming and baking
To form such products, it is necessary to thinly roll puff pastry, cut it into squares with sides of 7-8 centimeters, and then put 1-1.5 dess. In the center. l sweet toppings. Next, you need to lift all four corners of the dough, connect them together, and pinch the edges with your fingers. As a result, you should get beautiful rectangular semi-finished products that need to be moved to a greased baking sheet and kept in the oven for no more than 40 minutes. During this time, the base and the filling will be well baked, and they can be safely served to the table.
How to present sweet and meat puffs to guests?
As you noticed, making a dish of puff pastry is not as difficult as it seems at first glance. Products with rich and savory filling can be served as a hot main course or as a delicious cold snack. As for the puffs cooked with jam, apples or cottage cheese, it is recommended that they be presented only for dessert. In any case, you should definitely serve hot, sweet tea, some kind of chocolate or coffee drink to such tasty, satisfying and aromatic products. Enjoy your meal!
Useful information
If you have learned how to make puff pastry on your own, then you can cook not only small and portioned puffs from it, but also, for example, pies. So, from the presented oparic base, a chicken tree is obtained by tasty and satisfying, as well as similar products with crushed potatoes, rice and dried fruits, jam and other favorite ingredients.