What is the recipe for puff pastry?

Friends in the south all have a habit of drinking afternoon tea. During this period, snacks are indispensable. Are you tired of eating Western snacks and cakes? The editor recommends that you try the Chinese puff pastry from China, which will definitely add color to your afternoon tea. So how do you make this Chinese puff pastry at home?

How to make puff pastry

Puff pastry is a magical thing. In fact, it is a dough made of flour and water, with butter wrapped in the middle of the dough. Picking up that small piece of dough, you can't tell at all that it will eventually become the famous mille-feuille. But it is this unremarkable little dough that, after repeated pressing and folding, produces many layers due to the isolation of the dough and butter, and finally forms the thousand-layer puff pastry. The process of making puff pastry is really like life. Every step on our path to growth is taken under pressure. However, you cannot put too much pressure on yourself, just like a guitar string will break if it is stretched too tight. Alternating between tension and relaxation is the way of both civil and military affairs. The road from dough to puff pastry is long and winding. Not only do you need to control the strength of the pressure, but you also need to give it enough time to relax the muscles. This is the only way to achieve a layered effect in the end.

raw material:

500g ordinary all-purpose flour, 2g salt, 30g butter, 280ml water, 300g shortening

annotation:

1. When making puff pastry, try to choose flour with higher gluten content. Friends from abroad please choose Pastry Flour, and friends from China please pay attention to the ingredient list on the flour bag and choose high-gluten flour with a gluten content of about 12%. If you really don’t have flour, you can use ordinary flour instead, but the effect will be slightly worse.

2. Shortening (Pastry Margarine) is a vegetable butter. It is best to use in the form of flakes, which are translated into maquillin tablets in China. Ordinary vegetable butter or animal butter can also be used instead. Best cut into slices. This way it will be easier to wrap it with flour.