Unleavened dough, despite the name, is quite common in the preparation of various dishes. There are several types of unleavened dough, from which you can cook dumplings, dumplings, pizza and pies.
Fresh classic pastry
Unleavened dough is the fastest of all. It is made without sugar.
Ingredients:
- 3 tbsp flour;
- 1 egg
- ¼ tsp salts;
- water.
Cooking:
Heat the water to a temperature of 30-35 degrees. Pour flour onto the table with a slide. Add water, an egg, and salt to the recess in the middle. Knead dough and let it rest for 0.5 hours to swell gluten. Knead the dough again and roll out a thin layer. This dough is suitable for making pies, pizza, dumplings, dumplings, dumplings.
Fresh Puff Pastry
This dough is also called leafy. A distinctive feature of fresh puff pastry is a crisp on top and a layered internal structure. Cakes and pastries with various fillings are baked from it.
Ingredients:
- 300 g of water;
- 1 kg of flour;
- 1 egg
- citric acid;
- 1/3 tsp salts;
- 450 g of butter.
Cooking:
Dissolve salt and citric acid in water, add egg and flour, knead a cool dough. Knead the dough for 15-20 minutes, then leave for 0.5 hours to swell gluten.
While the dough is idle, mix the butter with 75 g of flour and mash. It should be a plate and pliable mass. Roll the mass into a layer 2 cm thick and put in the refrigerator for cooling.
Form a ball from the dough, make cuts on top of the ball, roll it into a thin layer. The result should be a "flower" with four petals. Put chilled oil in the middle of the reservoir and close the petals. If there is flour on the dough, sweep it so that it does not get inside. Roll the closed dough with butter inside into a 1 cm thick layer. Fold in half so that the edges of the layer close in the middle. Cool, roll out the cooled layer again 1 cm thick, fold in half and cool.
The more times the dough is folded and rolled out, the more layers will be obtained during baking. The optimal amount of cooling is 4 times.
Fresh half-layered dough
This dough is made by mixing flour and butter, but it is prepared much faster.
Ingredients:
- 2 tbsp. flour;
- 200 g butter;
- 200 g sour cream;
- a pinch of salt.
