How to make puff pastries with jam? Simple enough. Yes, and they do not prepare for long. The hardest part here is the dough. The process of creating it takes a lot of time (about four hours). You can use ready-made dough for baking, which is sold frozen. You can buy it at any supermarket.
Puff pastries with jam: recipe with photo
To prepare the pies, you will need the following ingredients:
- vegetable oil (30 grams).
For the test you need:
- one hundred grams of water or milk;
- one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar;
- two tablespoons of sugar and 50 grams of powdered sugar.
- two glasses of flour (or a little more).
Make the dough
As already mentioned, preparing puff pastry for pies is not difficult, but for a long time. The usual way is that the dough needs to be layered with butter or margarine. Allow to soak for half an hour, then roll again, lay a margarine in a thin layer and soak again. This goes on many times. Up to fifteen layers are impregnated with margarine to give the dough a soft, lush structure.
You can prepare puff pastry according to a simplified scheme, but it will be less crumbly and soft.
The flour is sifted, finely chopped pieces of cold margarine are added to it. Note that you do not need to rub the oil (or margarine) with your hands, because it will stick to them. As a result, the cooking process will take a lot of time. In addition, when in contact with hands, the oil melts quickly. And grinding it leads to fatty flour crumbs. Due to this, the dough will become hard, and baking may not work.
Salt and sugar are dissolved in cold water, vinegar is added there. The resulting liquid must be poured into flour. Then it’s worth adding oil. Quick movements need to knead the dough. It should look smooth and shiny. If it turns out to be liquid or solid, a small amount of flour or water is added.
After the dough has been kneaded, it is wrapped in a plastic bag and left in the refrigerator for two hours.
Tip
Vinegar gives the structure of the dough a sticky effect. If you add it in larger quantities, then excess acid will affect the taste negatively.
If desired, water can be replaced with cream or milk. But at the same time, the pies will be less airy. Due to the elasticity of the dough, it will be more difficult to roll out. It is better to use water mixed with milk.
Make pies
Before baking, the dough needs to be rolled out in a thin layer, then folded four times. Roll again, and so do five times. Due to this, the structure is saturated with air. Which will affect the baking favorably, making it more flaky. Before this, the dough is not recommended to be cut by hand. It needs to be rolled out (five millimeters thick) and cut with a sharp knife into small even squares.
Then for each jam is laid. Then the squares need to be closed. This is done simply. Need to close from one corner to another. The edges can be glued with your fingers. Another option - for these purposes, you can use an ordinary fork (you just need to press). Then the puff pastries with jam must be put on a baking sheet and sent to the oven. The cooking process is about 20-25 minutes. Then get ready-made puff pastries with jam from the oven. Let them cool slightly. Then you can serve.
There are many recipes for making such pies. If the house has frozen puff pastry, then baking will not take much time. This will be especially useful when suddenly guests came to you.
Pastry cakes
For baking you need:
- 500 grams of dough;
- 250 grams of jam;
- one egg;
- 20 milliliters of vegetable oil.
The number of products is designed for eight servings.
Cooking process
Defrost the dough and cut into squares. Then we need jam for the filling.
It must be put in the center of each square. Next, you need to wrap the product in the form of an envelope, so that the filling remains visible on the surface. The shape of the pies, of course, can be the most varied. But at the same time, their surface is necessarily lubricated with an egg. Then puff pastries with jam spread on a baking sheet. Cooking will take no more than twenty minutes in an oven already preheated to one hundred eighty degrees.
Conclusion
Now you know how to make puff pastry pies with jam. We reviewed a couple of recipes. One of them is more complicated, and the second is simpler, because in the process of creating products, ready-made dough is used.