Delicious puffs with apples

Puffs with apples - a favorite dish of so many. This batch is delicious, satisfying and inexpensive. Perhaps that's why in every tent selling bakery, there is definitely such a dish.

But after all it can be easily prepared and at home. Especially if you know the recipe for puffs with apples. It was unusually simple today, when in every grocery store already sold puff pastry is on sale.

So, buy a package of bezrozhevoy puff pastry and a couple of apples. Dough is best taken in plates, it is more convenient to work with it. Fruits peel, remove the core and bones, and then cut them into cubes.

In puffs you can add raw apples, but it will be tastier if you cook them in a special way. To do this, add a few spoons of butter to the pan and heat it. Then pour into the oil sliced apples, a few spoons of sugar and pour juice of half a lemon. Fry the apples, stirring constantly, until cooked. At the same time, make sure that the apple juice that has separated out is thickened. This will take about 5 minutes. Be careful, do not overexpose apples on fire, or they can turn into a mushy, unattractive mass that will flow out of the puffs and burn. Allow the apples to cool.

While the apples cool down, you can work with the test. It must be defrosted beforehand. The dough is cut into squares, about 10 by 10 cm in size, and slightly rolled out. Only roll out it is necessary exclusively in one direction, so as not to damage the layered structure of the dough. Put on half of each square stuffing of apples, cover it on top of the second half of the square. Protect the edges to make an envelope. If the edges are worn with a fork, they will be smooth, beautiful and patterned after baking.

From above in the middle of each puff with apples make three notches with a knife, a distance of one cm from each other. In order for the puffs to turn rosy, grease them with the egg whipped with sugar. If you like sweet pastries, sprinkle the puffs with sugar from above. You can also sprinkle the already prepared puff sugar powder.

Put the future baking on a greased baking sheet. Bake puffs with apples in a well-heated oven. Baking at a temperature of about 200 degrees will take about 10-15 minutes.

If desired, apples can be substituted for any other fruit. Very tasty is obtained such baking with pears, peaches and apricots.

Such puffs with jam have an excellent taste. The main thing that it was pitted. Just remember that in the puffs with jam it is necessary to carefully peel the edges. Otherwise, the jam can flow out onto the baking tray and burn.

Puff pastry can be prepared on its own, but this process will require a certain patience and attention. The main components of this test are flour, water, butter and salt. The dough is kneaded from water and flour, into which cold butter is gradually added. It should be noted that the amount of oil is equal to the amount of flour used.

In order to get as many layers as possible, it is necessary to thinly roll out the dough, put butter on half of it and cover it with the second half - roll out the dough. Fold the dough several times and put it in the fridge. In about ten minutes, repeat the procedure. And so it is necessary to do at least five times.

The technology of a properly prepared puff pastry takes several hours. That's why many housewives prefer not to bother, but buy ready-made puff pastry. It is worth noting that most manufacturers make quite a good dough, from which are obtained excellent puffs with apples.