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Pâte feuilletée inversée

Inverse puff pastry (chef Christophe Felder's recipe)

If you want to impress your friends and look like a chef, this recipe of inverse puff pastry is for you. And you know what? It's actually super easy to make!
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 4 hours
Servings: 2 doughs
Course: Baking
Cuisine: Française

Ingredients
  

For the "simple dough"
  • 150 ml cold water
  • 1 tbsp white vinegar
  • 12 g salt
  • 350 g flour
  • 115 g melted butter, lukewarm
For the "butter flour"
  • 375 g cold butter diced
  • 150 g flour

Equipment

  • Mixer equipped with a baking hook (or by hand)
  • Pastry roll

Method
 

For the "simple dough" (use the hook)
  1. Pâte simple ingr.
  2. Mix water and vinegar. Add salt to dissolve it. Add flour and butter.
    Pâte simple cuve
  3. Knead the dough at low speed. Stop as soon as the dough is smooth and homogeneous, about 2 min.
    Pâte simple mélange
  4. Roll it out to give it a rectangular shape (the final size should be about half the size of the butter-flour).
    Pâte simple étalée
  5. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and leave it in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
For the "butter-flour" (use the flat beater)
  1. Pour the flour and cold butter into the food processor bowl.
    Beurre farine cuve
  2. Mix at low speed until the butter has absorbed the flour, about 1 to 2 min.
    Beurre farine mélange
  3. Roll out the dough with a pastry roll to give it a rectangular shape twice as large as that of simple dough. Film it and store in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
    Beurre farine étalé
Combining the doughs (see details and videos above)
  1. Place the butter-flour on a well floured surface. In its center place the simple dough. Fold the butter-flour all around the simple dough, to trap it completely.
    Assemblage des pâtes
  2. Roll out the dough with a pastry roll, lengthwise.
  3. Make a single fold, turn a quarter turn (to have the opening facing you), spread out again lengthwise and then make a double fold.
  4. Wrap the dough and place in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
  5. Place the dough on a floured surface.
  6. Spread the dough lengthwise, make a single fold, turn a quarter turn, spread again and make a double fold. Wrap and place in the refrigerator.
  7. After at least 1 hour in the refrigerator, the dough is ready to use.