Puff Pastry Recipe

all-purpose flour

🥗Healthier: whole wheat flour

Whole wheat flour adds more fiber and nutrients.

unsalted butter

🥗Healthier: coconut oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Coconut oil is a healthier fat alternative, while margarine is often cheaper.

Place butter in the freezer for 10 minutes.

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, and salt.

Grate the frozen butter into the flour. (Dice the remaining end of butter that you can’t grate.) Toss the butter into the flour mixture with your hands until well coated.

Drizzle 6 tablespoons of water over the mixture and begin folding the mixture together until the mixture starts to clump together. Continue adding water a tablespoon at a time until a loose and crumbled dough forms. (It should hold when squeezed.)

Gently knead the dough a few times in the bowl until a cohesive mass is formed. Shape into a 1-inch thick square and wrap tightly in plastic wrap. Chill for 1 hour.

On a lightly floured surface, roll the chilled dough into a 1/2-inch-thick rectangle. Fold the dough in thirds like a letter. Turn 90 degrees. Repeat rolling, folding, and rotating 3 more times.

Fold back into thirds, wrap tightly, and chill for at least 2 hours or up to 2 days, or placed in a freezer bag and freeze for up to 2 months.

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