Puff Pastry
 
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Aerial and crisp, puff pastry is the richest pastry; still, it’s the lightest of all pastries.
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Recipe type: Pastry
Serves: 15
Ingredients
  • 225 gr/2 cups white bread flour
  • 225 gr/1 cup chilled butter
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • Pinch of salt
  • 150 ml/2/3 cup chilled water
Instructions
  1. Sift flour and salt into a mixing bowl. Cut or rub 2 tbsp of butter into flour until it resembles fine crumbs.
  2. Place remaining butter between two sheets of plastic wrap and gently beat it up into a 15 cm/6 in flat square using a rolling pin.
  3. Make a well in the middle of dry ingredients. Combine lemon juice with water and add to well. Stir with cold utensil adding more water if necessary. The dough should be soft but not sticky.
  4. Flour rolling pin and roll out a 25 cm/10 in square. Don’t kneat it even if it looks lumpy.
  5. Place butter diagonally in the center of dough and bring each side of the dough in the center of the butter, to enclose it completely.
  6. Roll the dough to a 40 x 50cm/ 16 x 6in rectangle, then fold the lower third if the pastry over the center third and the top third of pastry down over that. Seal edges gently with rolling pin. Brush off any excess flour and wrap the pastry in plastic wrap, then chill for 30 minutes.
  7. Roll out the pastry to the same size again, with sealed edges on top and bottom. Fold and chill as before.
  8. Repeat 5 more times.
  9. Use right away according to recipe directions or wrap tightly in clear film and use in the next 3 days.
Nutrition Information
Calories: 162 Fat: 12 g Saturated fat: 7.6 g Unsaturated fat: 4.4 g Carbohydrates: 11.4 g Fiber: 0.4 g Protein: 1.68 g Cholesterol: 3.1 g
Recipe by DIY BITES at https://diybites.com/puff-pastry/