I love croissants, warm, cold, grilled, buttered, fills, solos to "mouth", in short, in all conditions. And I read and reread some elaborate recipes and I was scared, and then devoted much time will I be okay?.
Well I must confess that it was worth, I got into the kitchen with this heat and with the wonderful recipe One of two printed occupying an entire sheet to print and fully deserved off! It is not a difficult recipe. Is laborious and for spending time but we like to cook us why we love, right? as ale, was fear.
Although I used the third of the ingredients because I doubted that would go well I leave you the complete recipe and you do accounts and decide how much you want to do. I do the next time the whole. I've also read that can be frozen before baking but I have not tried.
Makes about 20 small croissants
sourdough
Croissant
500 gr bread flour 125 ml milk
12 g fine salt 70 g
icing sugar 250 g butter
Glaze
First make the dough, put in a bowl 100 gr bread flour. Back out in a 125 ml glass of warm milk yeast. We make a hole in the center of the flour and cast this mixture. Let mix until dough is smooth.
We cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let rest in a warm place a couple of hours or until doubled in volume.
After this time we put the remaining flour, 400 gram, in another bowl and we add another 125 ml of milk, salt, icing sugar and stir. Add the dough until we get a soft, sticky dough that we take off from the walls of the bowl. Make a ball, wrap in plastic wrap and leave in the refrigerator until the next morning.
next day extend the roll dough in a rectangle with 1 cm thickness. We smearing an even layer of butter in the center of mass. If you use like me can go stick butter cut sheets as half a centimeter or less and shall be placed on extended mass.
When we placed the butter fold the edges of the dough on it covering it completely. We turned the dough to the side opposite to that extend we have closed and reshaping a rectangle.
So that you do this step, the following where you are going round and also how it gets done the way I leave a croissant enlightening video I found and that has helped me much in the process, Croissants - Chef Pino .
When you get to the rectangle formed again made the first turn to the most simple (we do three in total). Mentally divide the dough into three. We turned the left over the middle and then the same with the right. Now mentally divided in two and closed like a book. This part is very clear in the video that I have recommended before. Wrap in plastic wrap and let rest in refrigerator 30 minutes.
We take the dough and turn half turn about the position before. Turn to roll the dough into a rectangle and repeat another simple as the previous round. We return to wrap in plastic wrap and let stand another 30 minutes.
again turn to roll out the dough and repeat the process remembering to turn the dough before rolling. Stretch back into a rectangle and do another lap easily. Wrap in plastic wrap and let rest for now at least an hour.
As in the blog One of two did a paper template of a triangle of base 13 cm x 18 cm. We take the dough from the refrigerator and again stretch dough into a rectangle as thin as possible. Cut the dough into triangles with the template. We left a
triangle on the desk with the base facing us and we make a small cut as 1 cm in the center of the base. Here I vary the recipe for one of two as in the video I put a ball of dough left over at the end of this short cut to give more volume to the croissant. Finally we wind (See the video that will teach you everything!) And we will do the same with all the triangles.
Leaving ferment until doubled in volume, about two hours.
We
croissant placing on cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and brush with glaze, from the center out to keep out the layers.
Preheat oven to 200 degrees and when we will get lowered to 170 º. Bake about 10 minutes, until golden.
Once removed from the oven I have not painted with syrup or anything because for me have been perfect as well. Well preserved in a can but of course, I do not need because we have made we have eaten in a flash!
has been very rewarding and fun so I advise you completely or if you want you can spend for one ... oh, if you no longer are no crumbs!. Really, is a recipe works but if you like the croissants ... you will not regret!