Do you want to hear enthusiastic compliments at the family or festive table of your loved ones or guests? To do this, it is enough to prepare an interesting and tasty dish. For a delicious breakfast, lunch and dinner or a festive table, puff pastry baskets with filling are quite suitable. They are called "Delight".
You will need:
To prepare puff pastry:
- wheat flour - 6 tbsp.;
- margarine - 400 g;
- water - 1, 5 tbsp.;
- salt - 0.5 tsp;
- citric acid - 0.5 tsp;
- dried beans - for the form.
To prepare the filling:
- potatoes - 5 pcs.;
- shrimp - 250 g.;
- fresh cucumber - 1 pc.;
- cheese - 100 g.;
- mayonnaise - 2 tablespoons;
- orange - 1 pc.
For decoration:
- lettuce leaves;
- greens, olives, olives;
- pickled vegetables.
The basis of puff baskets called "Delight" is puff pastry. There are various recipes for making puff pastry. One of the recipes for cooking is yeast-free puff pastry. Take 6 cups of flour and pour them onto a clean, dry, kitchen table. Cut the softened baking margarine into cubes and add to the flour. Mix everything with your hands until smooth. Then pour 1.5 cups of water into a small bowl, add 0.5 teaspoon of salt and the same amount of citric acid. We make holes in the flour mass and, pouring a little water into them, as if we collect lumps with our palm (but do not knead). We do this until the water runs out. We collect everything in a single lump, wrap it in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator overnight.
The next step is making baskets. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin and cut into squares, focusing on the size of the mold. Moisten the molds with water, put the dough squares in them, and remove the excess. Cover with baking paper and sprinkle with dried beans to shape.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and bake puff baskets for 7 minutes. Allow to cool, then remove the baskets from the molds.
Now let's prepare the filling. Boil the potatoes in their skins, peel and cut into small cubes. Boil the shrimps in salted water, sprinkle with lemon juice, peel and cut. Peel the orange and cut into small wedges. Fresh cucumber can be coarsely grated or finely chopped. Grate cheese on a fine grater. Finely chop the greens. Mix everything with mayonnaise.
Put the filling into each puff basket with a spoon, decorate with olive or olives, a small piece of orange, and whole shrimp on top.
We spread the puff baskets on a platter with lettuce and pickled vegetables.
