Homemade Croissant Recipe
A delicious bun that you can make yourself at home. It is a perfect breakfast, snack, brunch or informal dinner. You can use any filling you like.
Ingredients
- 500 g Flour
- 75 g Sugar
- 2 eggs
- 250 g Butter
- 25 g Fresh yeast
- 5 g Salt
- 75 ml Water
- 75 ml Whole milk
Instructions
- We begin by sifting the flour into two bowls. In one of them, we will put the fourth part of the flour, which we will mix with the yeast. We make a hole in the middle of the flour and add the warm water. Mix until you get a homogeneous dough and let it ferment in a bowl with water.It has to be like a sponge.
- In the remaining flour, which we will have sifted in another bowl, we add the rest of the ingredients except the butter. Mix well and add the previous dough once it has obtained a fluffy texture.
- Knead well for 10 minutes, until the dough is elastic and slightly moist. It should come off smoothly from the table and your hands.
- Make two cuts in the shape of a cross and let stand for 10 minutes.
- After this time, add the butter. To do this, give your dough a four-pointed star shape, and put the butter in the middle.Close the dough by bringing the two horizontal points to the middle until they meet. Do the same with the vertical ones. Now, with a rolling pin, flatten the dough and stretch it so that it ends up being three times longer than it is wide.
- Now, we fold from one of the ends to a little more than the middle. The same with the other end of the dough. Repeat this process a couple of times.
- When we have finished kneading, we will form a "plate" with the dough about 40 centimeters wide and as long as it will give you.
- Cut the dough in two pieces, in half, and make triangles of about 8-9 cm base. At the base of the triangle, make a cut of about 2 cm. And open it slightly. We roll each triangle from the base where we have made the cut, to the tip. We will obtain cylinders.
- Fold the croissant peaks inwards, giving them their characteristic shape, and place them on the baking tray. Let them rest until they double in size.
- When the dough has rested, brush with egg and bake at 225ºC for 10-15 minutes.Your delicious homemade croissants are ready.
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