Puff pastry made from yeast. Puff yeast dough

Puff pastry

Let's first find out what puff pastry is. What to cook from it - more on that below. The name itself indicates a mixed type of product. This means that it combines both the softness, fluffiness, and airiness of the dough mass mixed with yeast, as well as the consistency features associated with the layered structure of the finished products. True, housewives will have to spend a little more time in the kitchen than always. But if you were able to overcome all the difficulties and get real homemade puff pastry, don’t worry about what to make from the semi-finished product. Any product made from it will be incredibly tasty and tender, literally melting in your mouth.

Technology for preparing yeast puff pastry

Having the opportunity to purchase ready-made frozen dough, it is interesting to try kneading it yourself. The key to success in cooking technology is the correct order of ingredients, as well as knowing how to make the correct batch, what the temperature should be, and the time for each stage. So, how to make yeast puff pastry at home?

How to make puff pastry at home

Before kneading puff pastry, you need to learn how to prepare dough from dry yeast:

Add sugar, dry yeast and 0.5 cups of flour to warm milk and mix.
Cover with a towel and place in a warm place for 30 minutes to activate the yeast.
Add butter.
Pour in the flour and knead, then let it rest for 20 minutes.
You can put the mixture in a water bath. To do this, place the bowl with it (covered with a damp towel) in hot water.

How to roll out puff pastry

It is important to roll the rolling pin away from you.
There is a secret to how to roll out puff pastry correctly: the more times you fold it and pass it with a rolling pin, the more layers there will be.
After each rolling, the entire mass must be cooled by placing it in the refrigerator for an hour. Repeat the procedure 4-5 times.

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How to bake puff pastry

Before preparing the sweet version, you need to pay attention to how to bake puff pastry in the oven according to the rules. When placing the formed products, it is necessary to prick the top with a fork so that steam escapes during baking and the surface is smooth. It is important that the oven is preheated and baking occurs at a temperature not lower than 220-230° C.

Let's cope together

What difficulties might you encounter when kneading? Firstly, the yeast, and all other products must be fresh, otherwise the dough will not rise properly and will turn out sour and overstuffed. Secondly, when butter or baker's margarine is placed in it and rolled out, the dough must be cool so that the fat does not melt or leak out. And if you send the workpiece to the refrigerator for cooling, do not keep it there for a long time and do not place it immediately under the freezer. After all, then the oil will harden too much and will tear the rolled layers. And the last “trick”: bakers advise kneading the fat to the consistency of thick sour cream and be sure to add sugar to the butter or margarine, which improves the layering of baked goods. Thanks to this addition, you will get the right puff pastry. What to cook from it? Sweet and savory baked goods. 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 “sort of”, special, culinary experts recommend adding raisins to puff pastry. Choose what to make from it: buns, bagels, “envelopes”, “ears”. In a word - whatever your heart desires! The main thing is to eat with pleasure!

Baked goods made from yeast-free puff pastry

Eastern sweetness

The secret of this recipe is the combination of nut-honey filling and crispy dough. Everything is simple, but in the end the dish resembles an exotic oriental sweet.

Ingredients:

Yeast-free puff pastry – 1 package (500g);
Nuts – 400 g (you can take any to suit your taste);
Honey – 2-3 tbsp;
Sugar – 1 tbsp;
Butter – 50 g;
Egg (yolk) – 1 pc.;
Cinnamon – for sprinkling.

Try to chop the nuts finely and fry them a little. If you use walnuts, it is better not to fry them - they will be bitter. Just chop it.
While the nuts are hot, mix them with honey and sugar. Add cinnamon. Mix everything well and let it brew a little so that the nuts are saturated with the aroma of cinnamon and honey.
To make it easier to work with, divide the dough into several parts. Roll out each part well. The thickness should not be more than 5 mm.
Before adding the filling, brush each layer with melted butter.
Place the filling and distribute evenly over the dough.
Here's attention! The layers of dough can be placed one on top of the other to form a pie or cakes if the pie is cut into pieces before baking. But you can roll the rolls. Each housewife decides for herself, taking into account her mood and family preferences.
Roll up the roll. Brush the top of the roll with whipped yolk.
Bake the rolls at 250 degrees for 20 minutes.

The puff pastry, nuts and honey will make the roll look like baklava. But a different dough is used to make baklava.

Puff pastries with apples

These are open buns. That is, the apples on top will decorate them.

Ingredients:

Dough – 300 g;
Apples – 2 pcs.;
Jam – apricot or jam – 60-70 g;
Egg – 1 yolk;
Water – 30 g.

Prepare the dough. Defrost and roll it out. Cut into 4 parts, each of which is a rectangle 15 by 10 cm.
Peel the apples and remove the seeds. Cut into thin (no more than 0.5 cm thick) slices.
Dilute the jam with water and put on fire for 2 minutes. Then we pass it through a sieve.
Cover a baking sheet with parchment and place the pieces on it.
We retreat 1.5 cm from each edge, overlapping apples in the middle of each workpiece. Lubricate them with jam. And grease the dough with yolk.
Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 10-15 minutes.
Grease the finished buns with jam.

Unleavened dough (phyllo)

We are all familiar with chebureks. Did you know that this type of pies belongs to a great family - burek or burekas. And in this family there is one “negligent relative.” And he’s careless because he’s... sweet. Yes Yes! Bureks are exclusively with unsweetened filling. And only the Greek galaktoboureko somehow became a dessert.

Ingredients:

Puff pastry – 450 g (10 sheets);
Sl. butter – 250 g

For cream:

Semolina – 150-170g;
Milk – 0.5 l;
Sugar – 250 g;
Sl. butter – 50 g;
Eggs – 4 pcs.;
Vanilla.

For the syrup:

Water – 400-450 g;
Sugar – 800 g;
Lemon zest - from 1 pc.;
Honey – 2 tbsp. l.;
Vanillin.

First the syrup is boiled. Pour the dish only with cooled syrup. Mix all ingredients (except honey) for syrup. Bring to a boil while stirring. When the sugar is completely dissolved, set aside and add honey.
Now you need to prepare the cream: Separate the yolks from the whites. Beat egg whites (50g) with sugar until stiff.
Beat 50 g with yolks until thick.
Gradually adding meringue to the yolks, carefully mix everything.
Boil the milk with the rest of the sugar.
While stirring, gradually add semolina and vanilla.
Reduce the heat under the pan and cook until the consistency of thick sour cream.
When the semolina is cooked, remove from the stove and add oil.
Mix semolina and egg mixture. Stir to prevent foam from forming.
Grease a baking sheet with oil. Gradually lay out 5 sheets of dough, sprinkling them with melted butter.

Interesting! A subtlety like drizzling rather than brushing the sheets with oil makes the dough crispier.

Pour cream onto the dough. And on top are the remaining 4-5 sheets. And again spray them generously. If there is any oil left, pour it on top, after making small cuts in the top layers of the dough.
Bake for 60 minutes. at 160 degrees.
Pour cold syrup over the hot pie and let it soak. This is a type of galaktoboureko. Since a real Greek dessert uses a different dough, not filo.

Tubes with protein cream

Dream and love since childhood. Did you know how easy it is to make them? If you have metal straws at home, then you are half an hour away from your dream!

Ingredients:

Dough – 500g;
Eggs – 2 pcs.;
Sugar – 150g;
Salt - a pinch;
Oil to grease the baking sheet and metal tubes.

Preparation:

Separate the whites from the yolks.
Beat the whites with salt. When foam forms, add sugar and beat until peaks form.
Roll out the defrosted dough and cut it into long thin strips 2cm wide.
We wind the strips of dough onto the molds, having previously greased them. Just a little short of the edge, so that after baking you can easily remove the mold.

Important! If there are no metal forms, you can use thick paper. Make tubes out of it and secure the edges with a stapler.

Brush all the tubes with yolks and place them on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
The tubes are baked at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
Let the tubes cool and then remove the mold. Fill the tubes with cream. You can decorate this dessert with powdered sugar.

Sweet pizza

It's no surprise that the pizza is sweet. No. That's just it. What filling and sauce should be in order for the dish to be juicy?

Ingredients:

Dough – 250 g;

For the sauce:

Sour cream – 1.5 tbsp. l.;
Condensed milk – 1.5 tbsp. l.;
Apple – 1 pc.;

For filling:

Pineapple (canned) – 5 rings;
Kiwi – 1 pc.;
Orange – 1 pc.

Preparation

Roll out the dough. And you can now move it to a baking sheet. First, place parchment paper on a baking sheet and grease it with oil.
Prepare the sauce. Grind the apple in a blender until pureed. Mix sour cream and condensed milk. Mix a third of the condensed milk with the apple.
Spread the apple mixture onto the dough base.
Peel the kiwi and orange. And cut them and pineapple rings into thin slices.
Place them in balls. First orange, then kiwi, and finally pineapple.
Spread everything on top with the remaining cream with sour cream and condensed milk.
Place the pizza in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
You can decorate the pizza with powdered sugar or pomegranate seeds.

Basic recipe

Recipes for puff pastry dough may include various components and have different kneading technologies.
We will look at the basic, classic method, which, once mastered, will allow you to easily experiment and invent something new. To begin, prepare the dough from 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. If it is on a dough, then half the specified amount of flour is poured into the first batch, the rest is added later, when beating the dough. For lamination, you need 3 more spoons of sugar and about 300 g of butter or margarine. As mentioned above, recipes for puff pastry contain instructions to cool the dough to a temperature of +17-20 degrees, and then place it on a work surface sprinkled with flour and roll it out into a layer no thicker than 10 mm. Apply well-mashed butter at room temperature evenly to the middle of the dough sheet, sprinkle sugar on top. Bend part of the free layer inward and cover half of the oiled area. Place the second oiled half on top. You should end up with something like an envelope. Roll it out, fold it several times again and roll it out again. When buns, cookies, etc. are made from such dough, they should be allowed to rise in a warm place for about 20 minutes, and then put in the oven.

How to make quick puff pastry:

Step-by-step recipe with photos.

Dissolve dry yeast in water with 1 teaspoon of sugar.

Leave in a warm place for 15 minutes until a “cap” forms. Mix.

Sift the flour onto the table, mix with salt and the remaining sugar. Cut (or grate) the butter into the flour.

Grind with your hands or chop with a knife until fine crumbs form.

Add the egg to the suitable yeast mixture, pour in the milk and mix well.

Form a mound of flour crumbs and make a depression in the middle. Pour in the liquid mixture.

Knead into a smooth, soft dough (add more flour or water if necessary). Wrap the dough in cling film or a plastic bag and place in the refrigerator for 1.5-2 hours.

After this, the dough can be used. This time I baked cookies with condensed milk. You can bake pizza, pie, pies, etc. The baked goods should be greased with beaten yolk and baked at 200 degrees until golden brown.

Culinary professionals divide this type of baking base into 2 main categories, which determine its technical features. Depending on them, it is determined how to make puff pastry - quickly or with frequent proofing, on what and how to roll it out. At the same time, the general scheme of work, mainly after kneading, remains the same. The varieties are as follows:

yeast;
yeast-free.

Instant puff pastry - recipe

Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Number of servings: 10 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 4716 kcal.
Kitchen: homemade.

This quick-cooking puff pastry at home is distinguished by the absence of a rolling stage, which does not in any way affect the structure of the baked goods: it turns out to be the same airy as when working with a classic base. There is no need to fold anything in layers, so the housewife saves time and effort. However, keep in mind that everything needs to be cooled before starting, including the flour.

Ingredients

egg;
margarine - 400 g;
flour - 500 g;
vinegar 6% - 0.5 tbsp. l.;
the water is icy;
salt - 1/2 tsp.

Cooking method

Dilute vinegar 0.5 tbsp. l. water, mix with salt, beaten eggs.
Sift the cooled (!) flour onto the grated margarine.
Combine both masses, do not knead (pieces of margarine should be felt) - just achieve the formation of a large lump. Continue cooking according to the chosen recipe.

Puff yeast dough

Number of servings: 10 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 4205 kcal.
Purpose: universal.
Kitchen: homemade.

Professionals recommend that housewives be sure to write down a recipe for puff pastry at home, since this version of the base for home baking is considered the most tender and fluffy. It is ideal for puff pastries and pies with sweet filling. If you are going to cook with dry yeast, take 14-15 g for a given amount of ingredients.

Ingredients

butter - 350 g;
flour - 500 g;
milk - a glass;
fresh yeast - 40 g;
eggs - 2 pcs.;
vegetable oil - 30 g;
salt.

Cooking method

Sprinkle a piece of butter with flour and cover with film. Beat to get a 10*12 cm rectangle. Freeze.
Mix yeast with milk. Combine with flour, salt, beaten eggs, vegetable oil.
Cool the mixed lump at 5 degrees above zero. The waiting time is half an hour.
Afterwards, the dough needs to be folded in layers, between which there are pieces of butter, and rolled out.

Puff pastry without yeast

Cooking time: 35 minutes.
Number of servings: 10 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 2079 kcal.
Purpose: universal.
Kitchen: homemade.
Difficulty of preparation: medium.

Puff pastry without yeast is used primarily for savory baked goods: cakes that should have no taste, tubes filled with protein cream. This option is also good for strudels, Georgian open pies, French cottage cheese tarts, and cookies. Baked goods made from puff pastry of this type are often thin, since after rolling the layers do not exceed 2-3 mm in thickness.

Ingredients

flour - 320 g;
cold margarine - 160 g;
milk - 2 tbsp. l.;
water - 2 tbsp. l.;
egg;
apple cider vinegar - 1 tbsp. l.;
a pinch of salt.

Cooking method

Sift half the flour onto the table in a heap, break an egg into a hole, add vinegar and milk diluted with water. Add salt.
Mix with your hands until bubbles appear.
Mix the rest of the flour with grated margarine.
Roll out the first part of the dough and place a margarine-flour layer in the center. Fold up the edges.
Roll out, fold three times, cool for half an hour.
Repeat last step 4 times.

Visiting Carlson

The first dish that we will try to prepare from puff pastry is buns.
Yes, yes, the same ones that Carlson ate with such pleasure! If you try, and the baking turns out great, your family will not yield to this favorite fairy-tale character in appetite. You will need approximately 500 g of pre-prepared dough, a bag of powdered sugar, a bag of ground cinnamon, 3-5 tablespoons of sugar. Yes, when you make the dough, put vanilla or vanillin in it. This advice applies to all sweet baked goods. So, sprinkle a large cutting board with sugar, place the finished dough on it and roll it well into a sheet 20 cm long and 40 cm wide. Mix a few teaspoons of cinnamon with sugar, sprinkle it on the sheet, roll it twice. Roll out again to a thickness of 7 mm. Using a cup or glass, squeeze out identical circles and place them on a baking sheet. Let them rest for 15-20 minutes and bake until golden brown. When the buns have cooled, sprinkle them with powdered sugar and treat them to your family. By the way, the proposed recipe is one of the options that can be quickly prepared from yeast puff pastry, especially if you bought it in a store.

Snack pies

You can serve wonderful pies with borscht or soup, or even with tea. Even the most picky people will not refuse their filling, and all the baked goods together are worthy not only of an everyday, but also a holiday table. For these pies you need sponge puff yeast dough. Recipes for dishes of this type explain that then the baked goods will be softer. For the dough, take 500 g of flour, 100 g of butter or margarine, 10 g of dry yeast, a teaspoon of salt and 2 table sugar. Knead it and bring it to readiness. While you wait 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. Boil mushrooms and potatoes separately in salted water. Cool the mushrooms, chop finely and fry with onions, you can add a little garlic. Mash the hot potatoes well and mix with mushrooms. Add more salt if required. Now roll out the risen dough on a floured board to 7 mm thickness, cut into equal circles or squares. Place the filling in the center of each, seal the edges well, and place on an oiled baking sheet. Cover the pieces with a towel to rest, brush with beaten egg and bake until golden brown. Really, overeating?

Homemade puff pastry dough

Cooking time: 6-7 hours.
Servings: 1 pie or 12 puffs.
Calorie content of the dish: 362 kcal per 100 g.
Purpose: for baking pies or puff pastries, croissants.
Kitchen: homemade.
Difficulty of preparation: difficult.

In order for the puff pastry dough to be prepared according to the rules, a cooking algorithm is developed. It is also important to take care of yourself so that cooking is comfortable for the housewife: the temperature and humidity in the kitchen, conveniently arranged products will increase inspiration in mastering this not simple, but amazing science of making puff pastries. A recipe with a photo will help you visualize how to roll it out and how to cook it correctly.

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Ingredients:

flour – 4 tbsp;
butter – 250 g;
milk – 250 ml;
sugar – 80 g;
dry yeast – 7 g;
1 tsp. lemon zest or a pinch of vanilla;
salt - a pinch.

Cooking method:

Pour sugar into 100 ml of warm milk, mix and crumble the yeast. Sift 1 tbsp. flour. Mix and leave the dough in a warm place for 30 minutes.
Pour this mixture into a bowl and add warm milk, salt, mix. Add the rest of the flour, lemon zest or vanilla, and mix. Add 50 g of oil. Once again, knead the whole mass for at least 15 minutes, cover with film and put in the refrigerator for 3 hours.
Transfer the remaining butter to a sheet of parchment. Cover the top with a second sheet of parchment. Next you need to roll out the layer into a rectangular shape. We put it in the refrigerator.
After an hour, take it out and roll the whole mass into a rectangle. Place an oil layer on it and cover it 1/3 with the rest. Then we wrap the other edge with butter over this one, after which three layers are formed.
Using a rolling pin, begin to roll out the finished mass so that the butter is evenly distributed. Again we fold the rectangular layer as before, and roll it out again, after which we cool it.
After an hour, we take it out and repeat the process of rolling out and folding the layer. Cool again.

Christmas bagels

Continuing to look at different recipes with puff pastry, I would like to focus on this dish - bagels with nuts.
They are especially often baked for Christmas. The secret of the enormous popularity of the dessert is not only in the delicious filling, but also in the lemon glaze that covers the finished products. Make the dough in a way already familiar to you, using 2-2.5 cups of flour and one and a half tablespoons of butter. Roll out the layer to 7 mm thickness, cut into small rectangles. Grease each one with butter, add the filling, roll into a bagel and place on a baking sheet to rise. Then bake until “blush” forms, and when it cools down a little, cover with lemon glaze. Now for the filling: mix 200 g of peeled walnut kernels with 2 tablespoons of sugar. Place in a hot frying pan, fry a little, and then crush. Mix in a little vanilla and a few spoons of jam syrup to make a somewhat viscous mass. Bagels are filled with it. And make the glaze 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. Using a wooden spoon, stir the mixture until it becomes smooth and begins to shine. If you don't want to make glaze, you can simply sprinkle the bagels with powdered sugar. In any case, the cookies will be excellent!

Quick dessert

If you are interested in quick baking from puff pastry, we can offer this recipe. The good thing about it is that while the semi-finished products are proofing, you can prepare other dishes. We are talking about puff “curls”. The dough for them is prepared from 500 g of flour. Also, a quarter cup of sugar or chopped almonds is needed for sprinkling the dessert. Roll out the dough layer to a thickness of 10 mm and cut into thin “ribbons”. Weave them two at a time into small braids, stretch them slightly, and make “curls.” Grease a baking sheet with oil, place the cookies in it and leave to rise for 40-45 minutes. Then sprinkle with almonds and sugar or an egg beaten with sugar and bake for about 15 minutes until golden brown. Fast and tasty, right?

Cabbage pie made from puff pastry

It turns out very tender and tasty.

Ingredients:

cabbage – 1 head;
butter – 4 tablespoons;
boiled eggs – 4 pieces;
raw egg – 1 piece;
yeast puff pastry – 2 sheets;
fresh dill;
salt.

1.Prepare the cabbage. It should be finely chopped and simmered in butter (30 minutes).

2.Now peel and cut the eggs into cubes, finely chop the dill. Mix everything with cabbage and salt.

3.Take a baking sheet and place one sheet of dough on it. Place the filling on top of it, leaving the edges empty. Cover the top with a second sheet and pinch the edges. Beat a raw egg and brush the top of the pie with it.

4. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees, bake the pie for about 45 minutes. All is ready.

Cheesecakes with cottage cheese

However, we will continue to tell you the secrets of what to cook from puff pastry. The recipes, as you may have noticed, are very different, each tastier than the other. For example, these cheesecakes. For the filling, take 200 g of fresh fat cottage cheese, mix with sugar to taste, beat in a mixer, add a few handfuls of raisins. Knead the dough itself from 500 g of flour, be sure to add vanilla, maybe a little cardamom. Roll out into a flat cake 1 centimeter thick, cut into equal squares. Place the filling and seal the corners of the squares. Grease a baking sheet with butter and place the buns, but not tightly so that they do not interfere with each other. To do this, grease the barrels with softened butter. Then beat the egg, brush the cheesecakes and bake. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and bring to the table. You can bake cheesecakes with jam in the same way.

What to cook from puff pastry?

You can prepare many delicious dishes: buns, pizza, puff pastries, pies, puff pastries, khachapuri, cookies, rolls, sausages in dough. You might like mushroom puff pastries.

Puff pastries with cheese and mushrooms

Products:

puff pastry 450 g;
140 g cheese;
oyster mushrooms 200 g;
1 onion;
carrot 1 pc.;
1 egg;
vegetable oil 60 ml;
salt, spices.

Preparation:

Fry oyster mushrooms with finely chopped onions and grated carrots in oil until cooked. As for spices, in addition to salt, you can add sweet paprika, suneli hops, basil or black pepper.
Roll out the dough and cut into equal squares.
Place mushroom filling in the middle of each square and sprinkle with grated cheese.
Fold the edges of the squares towards the center and pinch. You should get envelopes.
Place the resulting puff pastries on a greased baking sheet, brush with beaten egg, and bake in the oven at 200°C for about 15 minutes.

Instead of mushrooms, you can put any filling in these puff pastries - apple jam, cottage cheese, nuts and raisins.

Puff pastry is quite difficult to make on your own. You can buy it ready-made in the store or try the interesting recipes described in the article.

Baking with cheese

For lovers of savory dishes, this type of cookie like kruchenki is very suitable. Yes, not simple ones, but with cheese additives. For puff pastry dough, mixed from 600-700 g of flour, you need about one and a half glasses of hard grated cheese with a pronounced taste (like cheddar) and a little for sprinkling, as well as poppy seeds and sesame seeds. Grated cheese should be added to the dough when kneading again. When ready, divide into 12-14 equal parts. Roll them into long ropes, which you then bend in half several times and connect the ends so that they do not straighten out. Let them “rest” for half an hour on the already prepared baking sheet, then brush each one with a beaten egg, sprinkle with sesame seeds and poppy seeds, you can replace them with grated cheese, and bake until golden brown. An excellent addition to beer, I must admit!

Horseshoes baked for luck and good appetite

What else we can offer you to prepare something delicious are cakes with jam in the shape of horseshoes. Toasted, aromatic, they just beg to be put into your mouth. From 650-750 g of flour with added vanillin, knead puff pastry with yeast. When it fits well, carefully roll it out into a sheet 1 cm thick. Cut it into small squares, put thick jam, roll it into rolls, then bend it into horseshoes and place it on a baking sheet, greasing it with oil. When the products have proofed after 15 minutes, brush them with beaten egg and bake. Once the cakes have cooled, sprinkle them with powdered sugar.