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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> French >> French

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Mix the melted butter with 1 cup of cold water. | 2. In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, salt and water-butter mixture just enough to bind the ingredients together in a dough. | 3. Place the dough in a clean bowl, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 45 minutes. | 4. Knead the remaining butter until it is truly pliable. | 5. Remove the dough from the fridge and place on a floured surface. | 6. Flour it slightly and roll it out into a ten inch square. | 7. Spread the kneaded butter over the dough to form a 7" x 7" diamond in the center of the square of dough. | 8. Fold the corners of the dought into the center of the square so that the butter is now enclosed in a square envelope of dough. | 9. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for thirty minutes. | 10. Next remove the dough to the floured surface, laying it down fold side down. Flour slightly and roll the dough GENTLY (you don't want the butter squirting out) into a rectangle that is 8" x 20". | 11. Brush off any excess flour and fold the top one third to the center; then fold the bottom third over the top. | 12. Give the dough a quarter turn clockwise; roll it out again and fold it again and refrigerate for thirty minutes. | 13. Repeat the rolling, folding procedure two more times, chilling the dough in between each time. | 14. Your puff paste is now ready for use or can be divided and wrapped carefully in plastic and frozen. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
butter	8	tablespoons	unsalted melted	684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
purpose flour	3 1/2	cups	sifted	-	-	-	-
salt	1	tablespoon		-	-	-	-
butter	24	tablespoons	unsalted softened	2443.536	0.2045	2.8968	276.4229

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.