When I was taking my Breads & Rolls class last year in culinary school we made an Indian bread called Aloo Paratha. It is a wheat bread dough that is filled with a curried potato mixture, rolled flat and cooked on a hot griddle. They were, in a word, delicious!
Reverse Puff Pastry
Butter Block:
190 gr soft butter
75 gr flourDough:
175 gr flour
7 gr. salt
60 gr melted butter
70 ml water
First, you mix the first quantity of butter and flour together in a large mixer with the paddle attachment. Mix until it is well combined. Take this mixture and roll it between two sheets of parchment, as square as you can manage, until it is 3/4 of an inch thick. Rest in the fridge.
This is something I sort of threw together for dinner Sunday. I say 'sort of' because you can't just throw puff pastry together, but I already had that ready from the night before. I just layered thin sliced apples with cinnamon and sugar on the pastry, baked it, and like magic it's dessert!
I tend to dive head first into projects that are of interest to me. At the moment, and it should come as no surprise to anyone, my obsession is bread.
Now, we are not talking about the homogeneous loafs of bland white sandwich bread that line the shelves at the super-mega mart. What we are talking about is the hand crafted, rustic loafs of bread with distinct flavor, crustiness and unique texture.
