Cookign with Blearning! Croissants :)

¿A quién no le gustan los croissants? Sin duda es uno de los dulces preferidos por todos. Admiten muchas posibilidades, como dulces en desayuno, merienda o cualquier momento que te apetezca. Y la mezcla con salado es también riquísima, un croissant con jamón y queso a la plancha uhmmmm, qué rico. ¿Os apetece? Pues aquí os dejamos una receta para que podáis hacerlos en casa y os queden muy muy ricos y crujientes. Y como estamos empeñados en practicar inglés juntos, os dejamos la receta en inglés para que continuéis practicando. Enjoy!

Ingredients

• 4 cups all-purpose flour.
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar.
• 4 teaspoons active dry yeast
• 2 1/4 teaspoons salt.
• 1 1/4 cups unsalted butter, cold
• 1 cup milk (you may need slightly more or less)
• egg wash

Step 1

In the bowl of your mixer, add the warm milk, brown sugar, and yeast. Give it a quick stir with a fork or small whisk and let it sit for 5-10 minutes, until the yeast foams up well.

Step 2

To your bloomed yeast, add the flour and salt. Use the dough hook on your mixer and let the dough knead for about 5 minutes on low speed. The dough should turn out soft, elastic, and slightly sticky. Add 1 tbsp at a time until your dough feels perfect. Knead the dough by hand for a few minutes, then add it back to the bowl. Wrap the bowl well with plastic and let the dough sit in the fridge for 1 hour.

Step 3

Arrange the sticks of butter on a sheet of plastic wrap horizontally. Lay another piece of plastic over the sticks, and use a rolling pin to flatten the sticks until you have approximately an 8×5 inch rectangle. Put the butter, still wrapped in plastic, in the fridge until the dough is ready.

Step 4

Laminating dough is the process of folding butter into the dough many times, which is what creates all those layers. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and roll it to a 16×10 inch rectangle. Place your butter in the center, and fold the edges of the dough rectangle over to cover the butter completely. Roll the dough out so it’s back to 16×10 inches, then fold it letter-style into thirds. Wrap the dough with plastic and place it in the fridge for an hour. I like to repeat this process a total of 5 times.

Step 5

Roll the dough out, one last time, until you have a long rectangle about 1/4″ thick. I like to cut the dough into thirds to make this part easier. Slice the dough into long triangles, and roll each one starting at the wide end until you have a crescent shape. Brush with a lightly beaten egg, and bake on a parchment paper lined sheet for 8-12 minutes at 200º, then turn the oven down to 180º and bake for another 8-12 minutes.

Vocabulary

Small whisk = batidor pequeño

Foams up= hacer espuma

Slightly sticky = ligeramente pegajosa

Tbsp = table spoon= cucharada

Rolling pin = rodillo

To flatten = aplanar

Roll (the dough) out = estirar (la masa)

Thick= grosor

Crescent shape= forma de media luna

Lightly beaten egg = Huevo ligeramente batido