Puff pastry with apples

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients for puff pastry with apples. Let's start with the preparation of the dough. Pour a glass of warm water into a bowl. Add salt and sugar, stir so that the loose ones completely dissolve. We drive in a chicken egg. Stir again so that it is completely dispersed. Then pour in acetic acid and stir until a homogeneous mixture is obtained.

2. Step 2:

   

   Sift wheat flour to saturate with oxygen, and pour it into a bowl with liquid. Add the flour in parts, stirring the mass each time.

3. Step 3:

   

   The dough should gather into a ball, turn out smooth and elastic. Flour may require a little more or less of the specified amount in the ingredients, depending on the density of the flour.

4. Step 4:

   

   We also divide the dough into four parts, each of them is rolled into a thin layer with a thickness of no more than 0.3 centimeters.

5. Step 5:

   

   Take the butter out of the refrigerator in advance, it should be soft. We divide it into four parts.

6. Step 6:

   

   Spread softened butter on each layer of dough.

7. Step 7:

   

   We roll up the dough like an envelope, roll it out again with a rolling pin and do this several times. Then we fold the dough into an envelope and put it in a bag and refrigerator for a couple of hours.

9. Step 8:

   

   Meanwhile, we will prepare the filling for the pies. Apples are washed, if the skin is hard, we remove it. Cut the apples into cubes or small pieces of arbitrary shape, remove the core with seeds.

10. Step 9:

    

    Put the apples in a metal bowl, add sugar, cinnamon and vanilla to taste. We put a bowl of apples on the fire, pour in some water. Simmer for about 15 minutes from the moment of boiling. Apples should become caramel color. Let the apple filling cool down a little.

11. Step 10:

    

    Roll out the puff pastry into a thin rectangular layer. We cut it into squares.

12. Step 11:

    

    We put a little apple filling on each square of dough, fasten the ends of the dough to make a triangle.

13. Step 12:

    

    The edges can be fastened with a fork, it will turn out more beautiful. We make several punctures with a fork so that the pies do not swell much. Lubricate them with beaten egg yolk.

14. Step 13:

    

    Spread on greased parchment on a baking sheet.

15. Step 14:

    

    Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Bake the pies for about 20 minutes, until browned. We serve the pies to the table with tea, coffee or cocoa. Bon appetit!