Add message | Report | See all. You could use our vegan pastry recipe here, omitting the icing sugar for a savoury pie. joepastry says: 01/19/13 at 9:42 pm A friend has a bakery and he uses margarine in his croissant dough and butter in his puff pastry. Mostly, the dough is rolled out and pressed into thin sheets. To use puff pastry you need it to be cold. Kevin. If you've made it before how does it turn out? If you're making it ahead, you can freeze it at this point. Choose one with zero trans fats or that is non-hydrogenated, and do not use tub margarine due to its higher water content. Itâs not the nature of choux pastry to remain crisp for hours / days. That said, I've read that you can make shortcrust type pastry with oil only. Culinary historians believe that the original recipe may have come from Muslim Spain sometime before the 1700s. Aberdonian Posts: 473. Shortening melts a few degrees higher than body temperature. Only butter tastes like butter. by Marcus Bean. I suppose a Vega could answer this question but can you make rough puff pastry with a product other than butter e.g. Open-Faced Brie and Jam Puff Pastry Bites. Uses include sweet and savoury pies, patties, turnovers and as an alternative pastry for sausage rolls. You can make excellent pastry with margarine. Typically, the folks at the puff pastry factory make better products because they use machines. You can make it with vegan butter as well. Choux pastry gets soft after a few hours. Can margarine be used instead of butter? Making Puff Pastry From Pie Crust From Scratch Is Certainly Not A Good Idea: If you want to make your puff pastry, then you will take a lot of your time, and you will also need a lot of labor. Rough Puff Pastry With Margarine? Usually the best pastry has lard in it as well. Margarine is usually spreadable and not mouldable, so it might be tricky to achieve the 'puff' texture. Further, butter can be beaten into thin blocks (which are folded into the pastry dough). Margarine can be used to replace butter and there are several âhardâ block vegetable fats/white margarine that can be used in place of lard. While butter is no doubt the best to use, you can make puff pastry with hard margarine, not the spreadable kind that comes in a tub. Sun Puff 42 is a pastry margarine, specially formulated to produce a tough plastic-like margarine with high melting point. And while you can make your own puff pastry; it may be easier to buy it from the store. For the record I did find President's Choice Butter Puff Pastry; however it is not made 100% with butter. Can you make pastry vegan? Traditional puff pastry dough is made by encasing a slab of butter in a basic dough made with flour, water, butter and salt. Add 1 cup of flour (125 grams) and 1/4 teaspoon of fine sea salt to your bowl. This vegan puff pastry recipe is perfect for making that satisfyingly flaky treat in much less time. Sure! Can you make puff pastry without butter? Save this Shortcrust pastry with soft margarine recipe and more from Margaret Fulton's Encyclopedia of Food & Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z to your own online collection at EatYourBooks.com gluten free flour does not make good pastry ,gluten gives elastic to the dough ,i dont think pastry can ever be "healthy "but you have to use the right fat to flour ratio for any baked item .try using butter and making puff pastry ,fiddly but worth it . The sheets are then rolled together with alternating layers of butter. My reason for asking was two fold. Puff pastry contains so few ingredients (flour, butter, water, salt), so if you're going to the trouble to make it yourself, you should use the absolute best ingredients you can find. Vegan puff pastry will call for vegan margarine. Yes you can - mix with milk instead of water and it will still taste good. Stork is probably the best known to older cooks as a replacement for butter and hard baking Stork does work fairly well in pastry. Vegan pastry can be made with vegan margarine instead of butter. Reply. Roll the puff pastry out to your desired thickness and get creative! This vegan puff pastry recipe uses coconut oil instead of butter, so it still gets very flaky and delicious, without having to keep vegan butter around. Margarine which comes in a tub is intended to be spreadable at refrigerator temperature and has a low melting point, and should not be used for puff pastry or for baking in general. Look for a recipe specially made using that type of fat. For an awesome vegan puff pastry ⦠So, once you combine the salt and all-purpose flour into a bowl, and you cut the butter into â
-inch cubes (and place it into a separate bowl), chill the bowl of flour and salt, and the bowl of butter in the freezer for 10-15 minutes. To make simple and pretty Brie and jam bites, start by rolling out your puff pastry to 1/2" thickness. Based on the classic French method of making puff pastry, but is assembled inverted, or âinside outâ. It also contains hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil margarine. Forum Member. Since margarine and whole butter will have a different liquid content anyway, don't interchange one for the other. Then the block is rolled and folded at least 4 times, chilling for 30 minutes between each fold. It contains no animal fats. Chop the green onion as finely as you have the patience for. 1. Can you freeze pastry? Update: Should have said I'm not a Vegan. While it's similar to the Middler Eastern phyllo, the recipe for puffed pastry was perfected in France. Is there a Vegan substitute? LovedayMerryweather Fri 05-Apr-13 17:20:38. I do know it isn't all that hard to make puff pastry. You can also use ready-made vegan pastry, widely available in supermarkets. Add the 10 tablespoons (5 ounces) of COLD butter chopped into pieces, and then begin to work the butter into the flour mixture using a pastry blender, two forks, or your fingertips. He says the margarine makes for a softer dough more suited to crossants while the butter makes a âcrisperâ dough better suited to uff pastry. When you're ready to use it, thaw the dough if frozen. You can bake choux pastry longer, so that it will dry out a tad more, which can make the pastry crisp. It is formulated using prime-quality vegetable oils and their fractions that are considered GMO free. Stir gently. Many thanks. But if you want a really buttery flavour, try making your own rough puff. Puff pastry is one of those items you're better off buying pre-made than making from scratch. hard margarine. It is not something that can be done so quickly, even if you have taken formal training in cooking. Yes! Saying this, I do appreciate that super cold and hard pastry can be a little difficult to roll out so try taking it out the fridge 5 to 10 minutes before using it. Easier to make than flaky pastry or puff pastry but has larger flakes and is not as light. The most popular vegan store bought vegan puff pastry is Pepperidge Farm. Puff pastry is a light flaky pastry made from thin sheets of dough that are baked with layers of butter that melt as it's cooked, leaving airy pockets in the pastry. Homemade pastry freezes well, wrapped in clingfilm for 1 month. Sure, shop-bought puff pastry is fine most of the time. Margarine which comes in sticks will have a higher melting point and is better. 0. Getting puff pastry warm will melt the buttery layers that youâve worked so hard to achieve. Margarine is pure fat so might not work. 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