Easy Homemade Puff Pastry Dough

This puff pasty dough suits both for sweet and savoury preparations.
However, if you want it slightly sweeter, just add a teaspoon of sugar to the sifted flour and mix well, whilst for the savoury one just add a teaspoon of fine salt.

You can also use wholemeal or gluten-free flour, depending on your necessity, by replacing white flour completely or half and half.

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Doses for 3 ounces of puff pastry.
(Quantity suitable for making 1 savoury tart), Preparation time 40 mins

• 100 g frozen unsalted butter
• 180 g Italian flour 00 or 0 or Plain flour/All Purpose flour
• cold water, to taste

Method

Freeze the butter.
Wrap it in aluminium foil and place it in the freezer for about 30 minutes. When it is well hardened it can be grated without problems.

Flour should always be sifted and let it fall into a large bowl.

Take off the butter from the freezer.

Keep the grater dipped directly into the flour and start grating the butter, so that the butter will not stick to it.

While you’re grating the butter, start stirring the ingredients until you get a rather lumpy mixture.

Add a tablespoon of cold water. Start with just a tablespoon, keep working the dough with a spatula as if you’d cut it rather than mix it. Add water until the mixture begins to compact, but without being sticky.

Now use your hands. Quickly, form a ball. A little more water may be needed if the dough should crumble.

As soon as the dough is ready, wrap it in clingfilm or in a food plastic bag and store it in the fridge at least 30 mins.

Now it’s ready to be rolled out by using two sheets of baking paper so that you can roll it out better.

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