Unleavened puff pastry

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr 30 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   Ingredients

2. STEP 2

   

   Egg, 16 drops citric acid, salt

3. STEP 3

   

   Pour an egg into a tea glass, beat lightly, add salt and acid, mix well until the salt dissolves,

4. STEP 4

   

   then pour cold water over the egg to the edge of the glass

5. STEP 5

   

   Sift flour into a bowl.

6. STEP 6

   

   . Add a glass of water with an egg to the flour. Using a wooden spatula or your hand, knead the dough until it reaches a smooth, dense consistency. If the flour absorbs a lot of water, add more water to the dough.

7. STEP 7

   

   Knead the dough for 5-8 minutes until it comes off well from your hands and bowl, then place it on a floured table, cover with a napkin and leave for 20-30 minutes.

8. STEP 8

   

   In a bowl with flour, grate cold butter and mix

9. STEP 9

   

   Make a rectangular cake.

10. STEP 10

    

    Cut the dough crosswise.

11. STEP 11

    

    Add flour and roll out the dough with a rolling pin so that the middle of the layer is thicker than the edges.

12. STEP 12

    

    Place a roll of butter in the center of the layer, cover it with the long edges of the dough and pinch the edges of the flatbread.

13. STEP 13

    

    We get this “envelope”, which we cover with a napkin and leave for 10 minutes in a cool place (not necessarily in the refrigerator)

14. STEP 14

    

    . Place the resulting “envelope” on the table, dust with flour and

15. STEP 15

    

    Using a thick rolling pin, starting from the middle, roll out into a rectangular 10 mm layer, then use a soft brush to sweep away excess flour from the surface of the layer.

16. STEP 16

    

    and fold

17. STEP 17

    

    And fold it in four

18. STEP 18

    

    This is how a seam is formed in 4 layers. Cover the dough with a napkin and leave for 10 minutes.

19. STEP 19

    

    after which they turn the seam, sprinkle flour on top and bottom and roll it out again to 10 mm thickness.

20. STEP 20

    

    Sweep the flour and fold the roll in four again,

21. STEP 21

    

    in which 16 layers of oil were formed. Cool the dough, after 20 minutes roll it out again and fold it in four, resulting in a dough with 64 layers of butter

22. STEP 22

    

    After cooling for 30 minutes, roll out the dough into a layer and

23. STEP 23

    

    fold in four again, thus obtaining 256 layers of butter.

24. STEP 24

    

    The dough should not be spread out or folded further as thin layers may tear, as a result of which the oil will mix with the dough and the products will turn out to be slightly flaky.

25. STEP 25

    

    Divide the resulting dough into the parts we need

26. STEP 26

    

    Place each piece of dough in a plastic bag.

27. STEP 27

    

    Put the dough in the freezer

Comments on the recipe

Irisha

04.11.2023

5

Anahit, what a great fellow you are! This is such a labor-intensive process, I just hope that someday I’ll decide to prepare it

Anahit

04.11.2023

4.8

Irisha, in fact, there is nothing difficult: the dough is prepared in water with an egg and rolled from butter and flour. Then the roll is wrapped in dough and rolled out and folded four times. Puff pastry is no more difficult to prepare than yeast dough.

Shura

04.11.2023

5

I agree with Irisha, Anahit, I myself have prepared this dough before, it’s not very simple, you have to do everything skillfully, otherwise the oil comes out and the torn dough and products don’t turn out so beautiful, so your skillful hands are very great craftsmen! I understand that you can then store pieces of dough in the freezer for a long time until the happy moment when there is a holiday at home? This is very convenient and beneficial for the housewife. And your dough, Anait, turned out very beautiful and professional, it’s immediately obvious that you deal with it often!

Anahit

04.11.2023

4.5

Yes, Shura, the dough can be stored in the freezer for quite a long time, just like ready-made frozen puff pastry that we buy in the store. And it’s very convenient, for example, today I made a mushroom pie from one layer according to Alice’s recipe, and those two are in the refrigerator, as you correctly noted, waiting for a happy occasion

Shura

04.11.2023

4.9

Lina

04.11.2023

4.5

Good day! Is it possible to find out how long such dough can be stored and where? It’s my birthday soon and I’ve never made puff pastry myself, it’s too scary, but I’d like to try it anyway, so I want to make a pizza for DR with your dough, but I’m thinking of at least making it in a couple of days and seeing what comes out, maybe not It will turn out that there would be time to redo everything, thanks for the answer

Lina

04.11.2023

5

Sorry, I didn’t see the previous messages and already understood the answer to my question! so I'll try it now :)