Puff Pastry

 

Puff Pastry is a very common and useful thing for cooking and baking. With it, there will be lots of new things for your food every day. You can use it on soups, starters, main courses, breads, or desserts. So, there are lots of food manufacturer sold frozen puff pastry at shops in the UK. I heard from my friend. It is same in the European countries. BUT… In Taiwan, baking is not so popular. The oven is the must-be thing in the kitchen. So, learning how to do puff pastry is very important. For me, I like to do more and freeze some puff pastry in the freezer. Then, I can unfreeze in the fridge one day before using it.

 

Recipe: around 600g

(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: There is no need to put butter at room temperature.)

 

Steps:

(1) Weight all ingredients
(2) Place flour, sugar and salt in a big bowl. Mix it
(3) Add the water into the bowl. Mix it well into a dough ball

(4) Place 25g butter on the top of dough. Well-incorporated the butter and dough into a ball. Cover it with a lid or cling film. Put it in the fridge and wait for 30 minutes.

(5) Place the dough on a table covered with flour

(6) Roll the dough into a big flat, around 30cm by 40cm. Place 200g butter in the middle of the place.
(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: Leave around 2 cm at the top and bottom of the edge. Then, butter will not be split at rolling later.)

(7) Fold one third into the middle. And then, fold another one third on top. Then, it will turn into a long strip. Roll the dough up and down gently.
 

(8) Fold one third into the middle from the top. And the fold another one third into the middle from the bottom. Then, wrap with a kitchen film. Put in the freezer. Wait for 30 minutes.

(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: It will be easier to handle the dough.)
(9) Roll into a large plate. Then repeat (7) and (8) at least 3 more time.