Puff pastry

Name: Puff pastry
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 4 cups all purpose flour; 2 tbs oil; 1/2 tsp salt; 1 tbs sugar; 1 cup lukewarm water or milk; 200 g pastry margarine or butter; 1 tsp active dry yeast; 5 free range eggs(optional)

Millicent Wamaitha @cook_12229850

Nairobi

Flaky and yummy

Millicent Wamaitha @cook_12229850

Nairobi

Flaky and yummy

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Ingredients

4 cupsall purpose flour
2 tbsoil
1/2 tspsalt
1 tbssugar
1 cuplukewarm water or milk
200 gpastry margarine or butter
1 tspactive dry yeast
5free range eggs(optional)

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Steps

1

Activate the yeast by mixing yeast,sugar and oil in a mixing bowl then pour the lukewarm water or milk over it and stir then let sit till it froths/foams.
2

Add in eggs(beaten),salt then add flour bit by bit to a stiff dough.
3

Knead the dough for 5-10mins or until pliable.
4

Cover with a clean kitchen cloth and place in a warm area to help rise fast.
5

Beat down the dough...then knead and make a ball.
6

On a floured/dusted surface, roll out the dough into a long rectangle and rub pastry margarine or butter on it.
7

Fold the dough,in 3,or alternatively bring an end to a third of the rectangle then the other end comes over the other end.
8

Wrap the dough with a cling wrap and freeze it overnight.
9

This puff pastry dough can make pies,croissants mwitu or whatever you fancy to fold in.