Who doesn't like cheese puff pastry croissants? Croissant and coffee are a great option to start your day. Many housewives are afraid to take puff pastry in vain. Fragrant and airy croissants are quite simple to prepare. You can put any filling to your taste. They have, of course, the main disadvantage - they disappear too quickly from the table and have to prepare a new portion.
Classic croissants
For twelve croissants from puff pastry with cheese according to the recipe below, you will need:
- 200 milliliters of milk,
- 115 grams of sugar
- 550 grams of premium wheat flour,
- 100 milliliters of vegetable oil,
- one pinch of salt
- two chicken eggs
- 5 grams of baking powder,
- 2 grams of vanillin or a bag of vanilla sugar,
- 8 grams of dry yeast,
- 200 grams of cheese.
Cooking steps
In the warmed milk, put the yeast, dissolve them, add one tablespoon of sugar and a tablespoon of flour there. Stir everything well, cover with foil and put in the oven or other warm place to ferment the yeast. Beat the whites with sugar until soft peaks form. Now add in them the yeast that has already come up, and the vegetable oil. Add the flour a little. Put baking powder, salt and vanillin together with flour. Knead elastic soft dough. You can wet your hands with vegetable oil a little at the end so that the dough does not stick to your hands.
For an hour and a half, put the dough in a warm place. Check it, and as soon as it fits, crush it (it will turn out two or three times). Divide the finished dough into seven to ten parts. Take one piece, roll out approximately five millimeters thick and grease. Roll out the second part, put it on the previous one and oil again. Thus, lay on top of each other all layers, and the top one does not need to be lubricated with oil. Roll out the many layers that you have, roll out a thickness of 5 to 10 millimeters.
Cut into twelve pieces, put the grated cheese in the wide part of the triangle. How to fold croissants from puff pastry with cheese in the photo you see. Roll them up, put them on a baking sheet covered with parchment in advance. Lubricate the top with yolk. Let them stand for about half an hour. Preheat the oven during this time to one hundred and eighty degrees and send a baking tray with croissants from puff pastry with cheese to bake. When they become golden, remove and leave for a while on the table to rest. Fragrant air baking is ready.
Croissants with cheese from a ready puff pastry
This recipe is for those who have little time to cook. Puff pastry croissants with cheese and ham are very convenient when unexpected guests arrive. You can always keep a packet of puff pastry in the freezer and cook fresh baked goods for half an hour.
Ingredients:
- one pack of yeast-free puff pastry,
- 2 tomatoes
- 200 grams of sausage or ham,
- 200 grams of cheese
- salt, spices, a mixture of dried herbs or fresh herbs.
Leave the dough in a warm place to unfreeze, cut it into rectangles of about 15 by 30 cm, and then each rectangle into five triangles. On a wide part of the workpiece, put a thin piece of sausage or ham, a small piece of tomato, spread the cheese over the dough and sprinkle with a little greens. Roll croissants in the form of rolls, starting from the widest part and leading to the top. Bend slightly in the form of a crescent and put on a baking sheet. Top with whipped yolk, sprinkle a little with coarse salt. You can sprinkle with sesame seeds or poppy seeds. Bake in a two-degree oven, about twenty minutes. When they become golden, they can be reached. Serve hot until the cheese has cooled and hardened.
Garlic, Nuts and Cheese Croissants
Ingredients:
- a pound of yeast puff pastry,
- 100 grams of hard cheese,
- 100 grams of cream cheese
- chopped or grated walnuts,
- a pair of garlic cloves
- one tablespoon of mayonnaise,
- spices, salt to taste.
Lay the dough on a surface sprinkled with flour. Roll a layer approximately five millimeters thick and cut into triangles. Grate cheeses, with a crush crush and mix with cheese garlic, nuts, add mayonnaise, salt and spices to taste. Put the filling on the wide part of the triangle and form croissants. Now you need to put them on a greased baking sheet. Anoint the croissants with the egg on top, sprinkle with nuts and leave to rise for about ten minutes, and then bake at a temperature of two hundred and twenty degrees.
With cheese and mushrooms
This is a very simple recipe for croissants from puff yeast-free dough with cheese, but the baking is very tasty, with an excellent aroma. From the given amount of ingredients, either two very large croissants, or four smaller ones, are obtained.
Prepare the ingredients:
- vegetable oil - one tablespoon,
- one onion
- one clove of garlic
- champignons - 150 grams,
- a tablespoon of Dijon mustard,
- two tablespoons of sour cream,
- 50 grams of grated hard cheese,
- 100 grams of puff pastry,
- tomato
- fresh parsley.
How to cook?
Preheat the oven in advance to two hundred degrees, roll out the dough quite thinly, no more than three millimeters thick. Divide it in half into two triangles. Finely chop the garlic and onions, and fry them in vegetable oil. Add chopped mushrooms and a tomato and simmer for about fifteen minutes.
Now mix sour cream with mushrooms, mustard and half cheese. The filling, which we have obtained, needs to be laid out in the center of the triangles and twisted into croissants. To make them look like a crescent, cut the shortest side slightly with a knife. Lubricate the croissants with the filling with yolk on top, sprinkle with the remaining cheese with finely chopped herbs and set to bake in the oven for about fifteen minutes. They should be served hot to the table.