Alright, you guys need to stay away from the frozen puff pastry, it sucks. We are the artists, and food is our arts. Stop wasting money on the frozen pastry, you can do it, and you can do it much better than them

ready for some pie making?

Puff pastry

Ingredients

• 1 lb of  flour (16oz of flour, you can use up to 18oz)
• 1 lb of margarine (no transfat) , this equals to 2 sticks of margarine
• 1 teaspoon of salt (savory style) or 1 teaspoon of sugar (sweet style) We are doing savory for today
• 1 cup of iced water (no ice, just cold water)

Process

Sift flour and salt into a mixing bowl

Mix in ½ lb of margarine ( use pastry knife).

use regular knife to cut up the butter

Throw all cut butters in

Mix until the mixture is yellow color and NO small chunks of margarine left.

Start breaking it up using the pastry knife

mixing done

good consistency. yes!

Now add iced water into the dough and work the middle to form a ball.

forming a ball - becoming a dough

Rest the dough for 30 mins.

Take the rest of the margarine and form it into a flat shape.

2 sticks of magarine, ready to be transformed

roll it out, roll it out

margarine flattened

Put this back into the fridge. After the 1 hour elapse, we will start the rolling process.

Ready dough

After the rolling process, roll the dough out, and its ready to use.

So now, roll the dough out and we start inserting the filling in side each of the individual sheet. You can shape the sheet any way you want, I just prefer the rectangle shape.

Chicken mushroom filling, one of my faves

As you can see I cut the dough out, and about the fill the other ones as well.

When you fill the dough, there are something that I want you to keep in mind

• Leave 1 inch of dough at the edge because you need to seal the dough
• Put the filling in one half of the dough only, because you need to  close it as well

After that, use water or egg white to seal the dough. Simple,  paint the 1 inch edge with brush, and then bring the top to the bottom, using your fork and pressdown to bind it.

Note: Its ok to see the filling lumps out like that, the dough is going to puff and the lump be gone.

seal the dough using a fork and eggwhite

and then, here you go, 400F oven in 30 mins.

Voila. Puff pastry pie

puff pastry chicken pie close up

With the chicken mushroom. oh boy im droolling!!!

You can make some sausage roll as well.

There you have it folks. Have fun with the recipe. Write me up if you have any questions.

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