Strawberry mille-feuille
Ingredients for 4 persons
- 125g of flour
- 2.5g of fine salt
- 62.5g of water
- 90g of butter
- 20g of flour (for turning the dough)
- 500 ml of milk
- 4 eggs
- 125g of sugar
- 55g of T55 flour
- 1/2 a vanilla pod
- 10g of butter (for dabbing purposes)
- 12 strawberries
- 8 mint leaves
1- Puff pastry: preparation (10 min)
Prepare your work top and ensure its clean.
Make the detrempe dough, spread butter on it then press it down,
Fold and turn the dough to obtain a “tour”. Repeat the process until you obtain six “tours”
2- Pastry cream preparation (20 min)
Weigh the ingredients.
Bring the milk and the vanilla pod to the boil
Clarify the eggs then add the sugar to the egg yolks and whisk. Add the flour and half of the boiling milk and mix
Pour the mixture into the rest of the boiling milk in a saucepan, bring the pastry cream to the boil, stirring constantly
Pour the pastry cream into a steel plate and dab the cream on the surface,
Cover and refrigerate.
3- Make the abaisses
Roll out the puff pastry to a thickness of 3 mm and to the size of a baking sheet. Prick it and place on a moistened baking sheet
Bake the strips of dough in the oven (220 ° C to 230 ° C) for 12 mins
Sprinkle a little icing sugar during the baking process
Cut out the abaisses
When the puff pastry has finished baking and while it is still hot, cut it into a circle using a cookie cutter.
4- Make the mille-feuille
Prepare the strawberries
Place a layer of puff pastry on your work top, then add a layer of pastry cream and strawberries
Repeat this operation twice
Finish with a layer of puff pastry.
- The detrempe: a doughy mixture of flour and an aqueous liquid which is used as a base for baking pastries such as puff pastry and choux pastry.
- The paton (tour): a sealed dough envelope containing a buttered sheet with a layer of the détrempe dough on top
Tourer le pâton: roll out the puff pastry tour then turn it. Repeat three or four times - In baking, an abaisse is a piece of pastry which is rolled out generally with the help of a rolling pin or rolling mill.
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