Croissants - a famous confectionery product from France, shaped like a crescent moon. The French traditionally use this pastry for breakfast. Croissants can with chocolate , cream fillings, fruit and berry jams. But sometimes the filling is not savory, then for filling, creamy curd cheese is used , supplemented with ham, cheese or spinach.
Croissants can be baked from a purchased puff pastry, purchased at a grocery store. But, indisputably, a puff pastry for croissants, prepared with your own hands, is much tastier, because every woman puts a piece of her soul in the prepared dish, trying to please loved ones. Work with the test, according to the therapists, also has a beneficial effect on the emotional state - it causes a feeling of peace and peace of mind.
Recipe for croissants from puff pastry
Ingredients for the dough:
- flour - 0,5 kg;
- butter - 300 g;
- water - 1 glass;
- a little salt.
Ingredients for unsweetened filling:
- ham (or hard cheese) - 200 g;
- curd cheese - 100 g.
Ingredients for sweet stuffing:
- yolk - 2 pieces;
- powdered sugar - 1/3 cup;
- chocolate - ΒΌ tiles;
- butter - 1 teaspoon;
- pinch of vanillin.
Preparation of a lean-dough puff pastry for croissants
Mix flour with salt, leaving a little flour on the powder. The sixth part of the oil is dissolved and poured into the flour, adding water. Knead the dough, wrap it with cellophane, put it for 1 hour in the refrigerator.
Divide the dough in half. Roll out parts of the layers, slightly stretching and sprinkling with flour. When working with a layered test, it is very important to roll out the formation in one direction. The obtained layers should be wrapped in cellophane and placed in a refrigerator (wrapped with a package of dough can be rolled). After another 1 hour, start cooking croissants.
Preparation of homemade croissants from puff pastry
Take the dough out of the refrigerator, smear the top of one of the parts with pre-melted butter, place the second cake on top and roll it all together with a rolling pin. You should get a thin flat cake. Cut it half-and-half and cut each part into triangles. Starting from the wide side, roll the triangle into the tube. On a baking sheet, place waxed paper (you can take ordinary A4 sheets and oil it), put the croissants and let them lie on the sheet for 30 minutes - the dough should rise. From the top of the croissants can be smeared with whipped yolk, so that the finished products were shiny. Bake at 180o for 30 minutes. Baked croissants can be filled with chocolate. To make it, you need to break the chocolate bar and, after adding 4 tablespoons of milk, melt.
This is how croissants are prepared without a filling. To make croissants with filling, we keep the algorithm of preparation, but at the stage of twisting into the tube on the wide edge of the triangle we place the filling and twist the roll, fastening the edges.
Preparation of non-sweet stuffing
Grate the ham (or hard cheese), add the curd cheese, stirring well. A loose filling is ready.
Making sweet stuffing
Rinse the yolks with a spoon, sprinkling the powdered sugar and vanillin. On a water bath cook until thick. Melt the chocolate separately in a water bath. Stir the egg mass and chocolate, adding oil. Prepared mass is used as a filling. As a filling is perfect and thick jam. Also very delicious croissants with condensed milk.
Nutritionists recommend not to get involved in eating delicious confectionery, as the calorie content of croissants from puff pastry is quite high. But 150 g of baking does not affect the change in body weight. Therefore, we recommend you to bake a crispy treat!