Different goodies can be prepared from puff pastry: khachapuri, puff pastries with any fillings, full-fledged pies, cakes. Puff pastry is also used to prepare second courses in the oven, for example, chicken legs wrapped in it. Many people buy this dough in the store, and not everyone is satisfied with the quality. Today we offer to get acquainted with the recipes of puff pastry on kefir! It is prepared very simply and quickly.
Is there a difference between a quick test and a regular test?
To prepare the usual puff pastry will take a lot of time and effort. Not every housewife, especially after household chores and work, will be happy to undertake such a preparation. The quick puff pastry on kefir, the recipes of which we propose to consider in the framework of this article, does not differ in taste and texture from the usual - complex.
If you cook this product according to the classic recipe, then it will take at least 2 hours, and all this time you will need to cool the dough, roll it out, add oil, fold it again, roll it out and cool it! Not ready for such feats? Then get acquainted with the kefir puff pastry, which is prepared by another method.
Cooking Tips
There are a few tricks in making quick puff pastry that help create indistinguishable from the original. Use our recommendations and you will succeed!
- To grind flour with butter or margarine is better with a fork, and not with your hands. From the warmth of the skin, the oil begins to melt, it absorbs more flour, and the consistency of the dough will be tight as a result, and the lamination will be broken, the layers will spread.
- In kefir puff pastry, you will need to add vinegar, it will increase the stickiness of the flour. A lack of vinegar will lead to a bad result - blurry layers. But the excess of this ingredient will not affect the taste for the better.
- If you take milk instead of water, then the taste of the dough will be more interesting, but its elasticity will become worse. It is better to take kefir when cooking.
Kefir and margarine puff pastry
To prepare a delicious, tender dough, you will need a few products. From this test, it will be possible to cook pies and pies, puffs and khachapuri, and if you add more sugar, then snail buns.
Required:
- 200 grams of margarine;
- two glasses of premium flour;
- a third glass of kefir;
- a tablespoon of 9% vinegar;
- half a teaspoon of salt;
- half a tablespoon of sugar (if for sweet buns, then two spoons).
Cooking
The first step is to sift the flour into a bowl. Cool the margarine so that it splits, is not melted.
Put the margarine in flour, chop it quickly with a fork or knife, so that the pieces are about the size of a pea.
Pour vinegar into cold kefir, add salt and sugar, dilute until smooth. Then pour the mixture into flour with margarine, quickly knead the elastic dough.
If in the end the product turns out to be thick or liquid, add flour or kefir.
How to make puff pastry?
Layering of the dough is provided by pieces of margarine, which are unevenly distributed throughout the consistency, but this will not be enough. To make a good kefir puff pastry, you must first put it in the refrigerator for an hour. To margarine froze again. And then create the desired number of layers in the following way:
- Sprinkle the surface of the table or board with flour, lay out the dough, roll it into a thin layer.
- Sprinkle with flour, fold in half.
- Powder again, fold again - and so 4-5 times.
- When you get a high dough, just roll it again.
Surely everyone will agree that it is much easier and faster to cook such kefir puff pastry than to use the classic recipe!
With egg and butter
We suggest you familiarize yourself with another recipe for a quick puff pastry on kefir. Compared with the previous method of preparation, the dough prepared by this method will be denser, the taste is a little, but different.
We will need the following ingredients:
- a pound of flour;
- 200 grams of butter;
- a glass of kefir;
- one chicken egg;
- a tablespoon of vinegar;
- a pinch of salt.
You can add sugar if the dough is prepared for sweet products. From such a test without sugar, you get delicious pizza, pies with any toppings, pies and khachapuri.
Cooking Puff Pastry
The preparation itself is also different from the previous method. It resembles the creation of puff pastry according to the classic recipe, but the whole process is simpler and much faster.
- Place kefir in a bowl, add salt and a chicken egg, beat well with a whisk.
- Sift the flour so that it is saturated with air, so the dough will be softer and more elastic, it will be possible to easily mold various products from it.
- Enter the flour in yogurt with egg, add vinegar, knead the dough. Then cover it with foil and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour - "rest". This procedure is required. Gluten during maturation will ripen, and the quality of the test will be higher.
- Cut the frozen butter into plates, divide into three equal parts.
- Sprinkle the work surface with flour, lay out the dough, roll it out with a thin layer.
- Put evenly one part of the butter, boned in flour, onto the bed, wrap the envelope, pinch the edges, powder with flour and roll out.
- Put the second part of the butter by dipping each bite into the flour. Blind the envelope again, sprinkle with flour and roll.
- It's time for the third part of the oil. Dip the pieces into flour again, put them in the dough, make an envelope and fold it three times, no need to roll out.
That's all, you can start cooking puff pastry. They will turn out much tastier than those that were created from a store product!
Real dough for Napoleon cake
Anyone who has ever tried this cake, prepared according to the classic recipe, knows the difference between it and something like that. In this Napoleon, the layers consist of puff pastry, but not what is used to make khachapuri or snail buns. If you want to please your family with a delicious cake, then take note of this recipe! Plus, such preparations are the simplest ingredients, which even if they are not found in any kitchen, are definitely sold in a store near the house.
Required:
- 350 grams of margarine;
- a glass of kefir;
- a teaspoon of salt;
- a tablespoon of brandy;
- a pound of flour;
- egg.
Cooking Instructions
Instant kefir puff pastry is not about Napoleon cake. This recipe is very different from the above, but still the dough is prepared faster than a regular puff pastry.
- Of the total amount of margarine, you need to break off 50 grams, this is for the test. The remaining 300 grams should be put on baking paper, covered with the same, rolled out to a layer about a centimeter.
- Remove the margarine directly in the paper on the shelf of the refrigerator. It should lie down for about an hour, and during this time you can still cook the dough.
- Drive the egg into a bowl, add cognac and salt. Melt the margarine - 50 grams, cool it, pour into the egg with cognac. Stir until the salt is completely dissolved, and then enter a glass of kefir, stir with a whisk.
- Sift the flour, pour the kefir mixture into it, knead the dough for 10 minutes. You need to knead vigorously to make the dough more elastic. The final product should not stick to either the hands or the table. Put the dough in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Rolling: put the dough on a work surface, roll it into a thin layer. Put a layer of margarine on top, close the envelope, seal the edges, roll out. Fold in 4 layers and put in the refrigerator for half an hour. Repeat the procedure 3 times.
It remains only to bake cakes and grease them with custard!