Ingredients for making homemade puff pastry sheets:
1. All purpose flour - 3 cups(small)
2. Butter - 100 to 150 gms
3. Chilled water
4. Plastic wrap
5. Salt to taste
Procedure:
Put the all purpose flour into a bowl and add salt to it. Mix well and keep in the fridge for 10 mnts. Take it out and add 30-40 gms of butter and knead the dough with chilled water. Knead continuously till the dough becomes smooth. Cover with a plastic wrap and keep it in the fridge for almost an hour. Since we are using butter so the dough for pastry sheet should be always chilled otherwise chances are there the butter will start melting in the process and the dough will get mushy.
Take out the chilled dough. On a rolling board/flat surface spread little flour and place the dough on it. Start rolling to form a rectangle shape. Then spread some butter over the dough and fold one side of the dough till center and other side overlapping the first fold. Again wrap in a plastic wrap and keep it inside the fridge for 10-15 mnts.
After that take out the dough and repeat the same process. Roll the dough to form a rectangle shape and spread some butter over it. Fold one side till center and overlap the other side on top. Wrap in a plastic wrap and keep in fridge for 10-15 mnts. Repeat this same process again 1 or 2 times. Final stage, take out the dough and roll it to the maximum. Cut off the irregular sides to form a symmetrical rectangle shape. Again cut into smaller square shapes and the sheets are ready to be baked. You can wrap the sheets and keep in freeze for later use but when you are planning to use it, make sure to thaw for atleast an hour.
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