Dough products have long and firmly entered our culinary traditions. Fresh and rich, mixed on a sponge and gingerless, flaky and ordinary - it is widely used for stunningly delicious pastries. Cakes and rolls, pans and pies, loaves, cakes, biscuits, pastries - every hostess can organize all this abundance on her table herself, using some useful recommendations from our article.
Puff pastry
Let's first find out what puff yeast dough is. What to cook from it - more on that below. The name itself indicates a mixed type of product. So, it combines both softness, splendor, airiness of the test mass, mixed with yeast, and features of consistency associated with the layered structure of the finished products. True, the hostesses in the kitchen will have to spend a little more time than always. But if you were able to master all the difficulties and get a real home-made puff yeast dough, which is prepared from a semi-finished product, let it not bother you. Any product made of it will be incredibly tasty and tender, literally melting in your mouth.
Cope together
What difficulties can you encounter when mixing? Firstly, yeast, and all other products must be fresh, otherwise the dough will not rise properly, it will turn out acidic, it has stood up. Secondly, when butter or baking margarine is placed and rolled into it, the dough should be cool so that the fat does not melt and does not leak. And if you send the workpiece for cooling to the refrigerator, do not keep it there for a long time and do not attach it immediately under the freezer. After all, then the oil will harden too much and will break the rolled seams. And the last “trick”: bakers advise fat to knead fat to the consistency of thick sour cream and be sure to add sugar to butter or margarine, which improves the layering of baking. Thanks to such an additive, you will get the right puff yeast dough. What to cook from it? Sweet and
savory pastries. These are cheesecakes, pretzels, horns, pies, etc. And the filling can be cottage cheese with sugar and cinnamon, marmalade, jam, poppy seeds with nuts. Or minced fish, meat, cabbage, potatoes, mushrooms. If you want something “special”, special, chefs recommend adding raisins to puff yeast dough. What to cook from it - choose: rolls, bagels, "envelopes", "ears". In a word - whatever your heart desires! The main thing is to eat with pleasure!
Basic recipe
Recipes from puff yeast dough can include various components and have different kneading technology. We will consider the main, classical way, having mastered which, you can easily experiment and invent new things. To start with 3 cups of flour (750 g), 2 eggs, 3 tablespoons of sugar and a small amount of salt, 15 g of yeast and 150 g of warm milk, prepare the dough. If it is on the dough, then half the specified amount of flour is poured into the first batch, the rest is added later, when kneading the dough. For lamination, you need 3 more tablespoons of sugar and about 300 g of butter or margarine. As already mentioned above, recipes from puff yeast dough contain instructions to cool the workpiece to a temperature of + 17-20 degrees, and then put it on a desktop sprinkled with flour and roll it into a layer no thicker than 10 mm.
Apply well-mashed room temperature oil evenly to the middle of the dough sheet, sprinkle sugar on top. Bend part of the free formation inward and cover half of the oiled area. “Throw” the second oiled half on top. You should get something like an envelope. Roll it, fold it again several times and roll it again. When rolls, cookies , etc. are made from such a dough, they should be allowed to warm up for about 20 minutes and then put in the oven.
Visit Carlson
The first dish that we will try to cook from puff yeast dough is buns. Yes, yes, the very ones that Carlson ate with such pleasure! If you try, and the baking goes well, your family will not yield in appetite to this beloved fairy-tale hero. You will need about 500 g of pre-cooked dough, a bag of powdered sugar, a bag of ground cinnamon, 3-5 tablespoons of sugar. Yes, when you make dough, put vanilla or vanilla in it. This tip applies to all sweet pastries.
So, sprinkle a large chopping board with sugar, put the finished dough on it and roll it well into a sheet 20 cm long and 40 wide. Mix a few teaspoons of cinnamon with sugar, sprinkle with it a layer, roll it twice. Roll again to a thickness of 7 mm. Squeeze out the same circles in a cup or glass that you place on a baking sheet. Let them stand for 15-20 minutes and bake until golden brown. When the buns have cooled, rub them with icing sugar and treat your home. By the way, the proposed recipe is one of the options that you can quickly cook from puff pastry, especially if you bought it in a store.
Snack pies
For borsch or soup, or you can serve wonderful pies for tea. Even the biggest picks will not refuse their filling, and all together baking is worthy of not only everyday, but also a festive table. For these pies you need a puff pastry puff pastry. Recipes of dishes of this type explain that then the baking will be softer. For the test, take 500 g of flour, 100 g of butter or margarine, 10 g of dried yeast, a teaspoon of salt and 2 tablespoons of sugar. Knead it and bring to readiness. While waiting for the dough to rise, prepare the filling. For it you need: a kilogram of potatoes, 3 medium onions, 600-700 g of fresh mushrooms, salt and sunflower oil. Separately, boil mushrooms and potatoes in salted water. Cool the mushrooms, chop finely and fry with onions, you can add a little garlic. Mash hot potatoes well, mix with mushrooms. Add salt if necessary. Now roll the dough that has already approached, roll up to 7 mm thick on a floured powder board, cut the same circles or squares. Put the filling in the center of each, fasten the edges well, lay on an oiled baking sheet. Cover the billet with a towel to distance, brush with a beaten egg and bake until golden brown. Really a merger?
Christmas bagels
Continuing to consider different recipes with puff yeast dough, I want to stop here on this dish - bagels with nuts. Especially often bake them for Christmas. The secret of the huge popularity of the dessert is not only in the delicious filling, but also in the lemon glaze, which covers the finished product. Make the dough already familiar to you by using 2-2.5 cups flour and a half tablespoons of butter. Roll the formation to 7 mm thick, cut into small rectangles. Grease each with butter, put the filling, roll it in a bagel and lay on a baking sheet to raise. Then bake until a “blush” is formed, and as soon as it cools down, cover with lemon glaze.
Now for the filling: mix 200 g of peeled walnut kernels with 2 tablespoons of sugar. Put in a hot frying pan, fry a little, and then crush. Stir in a little vanillin and a few tablespoons of jam syrup to make a slightly sticky mass. It is filled with bagels. And make the icing like this: pour 100 grams of powdered sugar, 1-1.5 tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice and 1 tablespoon of hot water into a bowl. Rub the mass with a wooden spoon until it becomes homogeneous and begins to shine. If you do not want to make icing, you can just sprinkle bagels with icing sugar. In any case, cookies will be excellent!
Whip dessert
If you are interested in quick baking from puff yeast dough, we can offer such a recipe. He is good because while there is proofing of semi-finished products, you can do other dishes. We are talking about puff "curlicues." The dough for them is prepared from 500 g of flour. Also, a quarter cup of sugar or chopped almonds is needed to sprinkle dessert. Roll the test layer to a thickness of 10 mm and cut into thin “ribbons”. Weave them two in small braids, stretch them slightly, make “curls”. Lubricate the baking sheet with oil, put the cookies in it and leave for 40-45 minutes to raise. Then sprinkle with almonds with sugar or an egg whipped with sugar and bake for about 15 minutes - until golden brown. Fast and tasty, right?
Cheesecakes with cottage cheese
However, we’ll continue to tell you secrets about
what to cook from puff pastry. The recipes, as you may have noticed, are very different, one tastier than the other. For example, here are such curd cheesecakes. For the filling, take 200 g of fresh fat cottage cheese, mix with sugar to taste, beat in a mixer, pour a few handfuls of raisins. Knead the dough from 500 g of flour, be sure to add vanilla, you can just a little bit of cardamom. Roll into a cake 1 cm thick, cut into equal squares. Put the filling, squash the corners of the squares. Grease a baking sheet with butter and place the buns, only not tightly so that they do not interfere with each other's approach. For the same barrel, lubricate them with softened butter. Then beat the egg, anoint the cheesecakes and bake. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and carry on the table. In the same way, you can bake
cheesecakes with jam.Cheese baking
For lovers of piquant dishes, this type of biscuit, like twigs, is very suitable. Yes, not simple, but with a cheese supplement. For puff yeast dough mixed with 600-700 g of flour, about one and a half glasses of hard grated cheese with a pronounced taste (like cheddar) and a little for powder, as well as poppy seeds and sesame, are required. Grated cheese should be added to the dough during repeated kneading. When it is ready, divide into 12-14 equal parts. Roll them into long flagella, which then bend several times in half and connect the ends so as not to straighten. Let them “rest” for half an hour on an already prepared baking sheet, then grease each with a beaten egg, sprinkle with sesame seeds and poppy seeds, you can replace them with grated cheese, and bake until golden brown. Great beer supplement, admit it!
Baked horseshoes for good luck and good appetite
What else can you offer you to cook delicious, so these are cakes with jam in the shape of horseshoes. Browned, fragrant, they ask in the mouth. From 650-750 g of flour with vanillin, knead puff pastry with yeast. When it fits well, carefully roll it 1 cm thick into a sheet. Cut it into small squares, put thick jam, roll it up, then bend it with horseshoes and lay it on a baking sheet, greasing it with oil. When the products are out after 15 minutes, spread them with a beaten egg and bake. When the cakes have cooled, sprinkle them with powdered sugar.