Mock Puff Pastry Dough Made So Easy Recipes

ROUGH PUFF PASTRY

Steps:

• Mound flour in center of a large work surface, and make a well in the middle; place butter and salt in well.
• Using your fingertips, mix ingredients together in the well. Using the fingertips of your other hand, slowly incorporate flour, beginning with inner rim of well. When cubes of butter have become small pieces and dough is grainy, gradually add ice water until fully incorporated, taking care not to overwork the dough. Roll dough into a ball and wrap with plastic wrap; refrigerate for 20 minutes.
• On a lightly floured work surface, roll out dough into a 16-by-8-inch rectangle. Fold the short ends over the middle (like a letter) to make three layers. This is called the first turn.
• Give the dough a quarter turn and roll away from you into another 16-by-8-inch rectangle. Fold again into 3 layers; this is called the second turn. Wrap dough in plastic wrap; refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• Repeat process in steps 3 and 4 to create the third and fourth turns. Wrap dough in plastic; refrigerate for at least 30 minutes, and up to 3 days, before using. Dough may also be kept, frozen, for up to 4 months.

MOCK PUFF PASTRY DOUGH (MADE SO EASY!)

Steps:

• Using a food processor, pulse butter into flour until it resembles crumbs. pulse in sour cream just until a ball forms and it just begins to hold together, being careful not to over-mix.
• Roll out and fold over in three sections (like folding a business letter). Repeat 2-3 times to get the layers of puff pastry.
• Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for a minimum of 30 minutes before using. Let sit for a few minutes or pound with rolling pin to get it pliable.

QUICKEST PUFF PASTRY

Steps:

• Cut 8 ounces (2 sticks) butter into 1/2 to 1/4-inch dice, place on a plate and refrigerate while preparing remaining ingredients.Measure water and add salt; stir to dissolve and set aside.
• Coarsely dice remaining 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter. Place flour in work bowl of food processor fitted with metal blade; add 4 tablespoons butter and pulse until butter is absorbed -- about ten to twelve 1-second pulses.
• Add remaining butter and pulse once or twice to distribute. Add water and pulse 3 or 4 times, just until dough forms a rough ball. Do not over-process.
• Flour work surface and scrape dough from work bowl. Shape dough into a rough rectangle and place between 2 pieces of plastic wrap. Press dough with rolling pin to flatten, then roll back and forth several times with rolling pin to make a 12 by 18 inch rectangle of dough.
• Peel away plastic wrap and invert dough to floured work surface. Peel away second piece of wrap. Fold dough in thirds in the width, folding the top third down and the bottom third up, to make a 6 by 18-inch rectangle, then roll up the dough from one of the 6-inch ends, making sure to roll end under dough. Press the dough into a square, wrap in plastic and refrigerate 1 hour, or until firm.

PUFF PASTRY SHEET DOUGH

Steps:

• Sieve the flour and salt into a bowl; add the lemon juice and the butter broken into pieces the size of a walnut.
• Add sufficient cold water to bind the ingredients together.
• Turn on to a floured board, and roll the pastry into a long strip.
• Fold it in three, and press the edges together.
• Half turn the pastry, rib it with the rolling pin to equalize the air in it, and again roll it into a strip.
• Fold in three and repeat this until the pastry has had four rolls, folds and half-turns.
• It is then ready for use.