Banana Puffs

Puff pastry pies are often made with a fruit filling. They turn out gentle, juicy, fragrant, serve as fine addition to tea, coffee, cocoa. Especially fragrant and sweet are puffs with banana. They can be prepared from both yeast and yeast-free puff pastry. Often use the second option, as the unleavened dough exfoliates better, it turns out more tender, does not have a specific sour taste. But if you want the dessert to turn out to be less nutritious, you can choose the yeast flour base, since this test requires less oil, which makes it a little less caloric. If you want your baking to be flawless, make homemade butter-based dough. Wanting to save time and effort, give preference to the store product. The general principles of making banana-filled puffs from purchased and home-made dough will be identical.

Cooking Features

Cooking puffs from the finished dough does not seem like a difficult task even to an inexperienced cook. Making buns from homemade dough will be a little more difficult, as the puff pastry is kneaded in several steps. Regardless of whether you use homemade or purchased dough, you will need to know a few things to get tasty banana puffs.

You will need flour, regardless of whether you are making the dough yourself or rolling it out, otherwise it will stick to the rolling pin, board and hands. This product is desirable to choose high quality. Second-grade flour gives products an unappetizing color and specific taste. Also flour must be sieved. This will allow not only to rid it of small litter and insect larvae, but also to saturate it with oxygen, making it easier.
Bananas for the filling should be taken ripe, but not overripe. Such fruits are the most tasty and healthy.
Bananas contain a significant amount of sugars and have a sweet taste. In the stuffing made from these fruits, you can not add sugar or use it in a minimum amount.
If you decide to make the puff pastry yourself, follow the technology for kneading it. This concerns the temperature of the products, the number of dough rolling and the duration of the break between them.
To make the puffs rise well, they are placed in an already preheated oven and try not to open the oven door during baking. Bake puff pastry cakes for 15-20 minutes at a temperature of 200-220 degrees.
To make the puffs rosy, they are smeared with a beaten egg or yolk before being placed in the oven.

Puff buns are tasty, even if they are just filled with banana slices, but an even more exquisite dessert will come out if the main ingredient of the filling is added with chocolate, nut paste, cottage cheese or other tasty products.

Banana puffs from homemade yeast-free puff pastry

Composition:

wheat flour - 0, 25 kg;
chicken egg - 1 pc .;
cold water - 100 ml;
salt - a pinch;
table vinegar (9 percent) - 5 ml;
butter - 170 g;
bananas - 0, 4 kg.

Method of preparation:

Sift flour. A couple of tablespoons set aside for rolling dough. Mix the remaining flour with salt.
Mix cold boiled water with vinegar.
In the center of the flour heap make a well, pour the prepared liquid into it. Knead the dough. Put it in a bag and temporarily put it aside.
Put parchment on the table. Rub it with cold oil. Cover it with a second sheet of parchment, roll it and put it in the fridge for half an hour.
Roll the dough into a rectangle, put butter on one side, cover with the other side.
Roll the dough into a 1 cm thick layer, trying to keep the oil from protruding beyond the edges. Fold the dough into 3 layers, put in the refrigerator for half an hour.
After a specified time, roll out the dough again, fold and put it in the refrigerator. After half an hour, repeat the procedure. Roll out the dough should be at least 5 times with an interval of 30 minutes. The more you repeat the described manipulation, the more dough you will have.
Last time, roll the dough into a 3 mm thick layer and cut it into rectangles approximately 7, 5 by 15 cm.
Peel and slice bananas.
Separate the egg white from the yolk, whisk with a whisk, and apply with a brush on the contours of each layer of dough.
On one half of any rectangle, put a 2-3 cup of banana. On the other hand, make 2-3 oblique incisions. Raise the free edge, throw on the bananas and seal the edges of the puff with a fork. Grease it with yolk and put it on a baking tray covered with parchment.
Similarly, make puffs of the remaining dough and bananas.
Heat the oven to 200 degrees, send a pan with puffs to it. Bake them for 15-20 minutes until they are lightly browned.

If ready-made dough is used to make puffs with a simple banana filling, the process of preparing a dessert will take no more than 30-40 minutes.

Puffs with chocolate and banana

Composition:

puff pastry - 0, 5 kg;
wheat flour to work with dough - how much will go;
bananas - 0, 4 kg;
chocolate - 100 g;
sugar, ground cinnamon - to taste;
egg yolk - 1-2 pcs.

Method of preparation:

Thaw the dough. After sprinkling flour on the table, lay out the dough on it and roll it into a rectangular layer about 3 mm thick.
Cut the dough into squares or rectangles of a shape close to a square about 15-16 cm in size along the long side.
Each square of the test is mentally divided into two parts. One part, stepping back from the edges, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and broken into small pieces or grated chocolate. Put a few slices of banana pulp on top.
On the other side of the square, make several small cuts in the center so that steam can escape through the holes during baking.
Form a rectangular puff by putting the free edge of the dough over the filling and making a dough around the contour around the filling.
In the same way, make the patties from the remaining dough, bananas and chocolate.
Spread the puffs on the parchment covered with parchment, cover them with a thin layer of yolk.
Place the baking sheet with puffs in the oven preheated to 200 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

When the puffs are reddened, they can be considered ready. It remains to remove the pies from the oven and serve. Cold, they will also be delicious.

Puffs with “Nutella” and bananas

Composition:

puff pastry - 0, 4 kg;
Nutella paste - 180 g;
chicken egg - 1 pc .;
wheat flour (for working with dough) - how much will go;
bananas - 0, 3 kg.

Method of preparation:

Peel bananas, cut into small cubes.
Remove the chocolate-nut paste from the refrigerator in advance so that it becomes slightly more liquid.
Let the dough thaw.
After laying out the dough on a floured working surface of the table, roll it out and cut it into 8 squares.
Place a large spoon of “Nutella” in the center of each square. Put bananas on top.
Lift the opposite corners of the square, fasten over the filling, then blind the other corners.
Move the resulting envelopes to a parchment filled with parchment, brush with an egg and send for 20 minutes to an oven warmed to 200 degrees.

Dessert prepared according to this recipe will please even the most capricious sweet tooth.

Banana Cheesecake Puffs

Composition:

puff pastry - 0, 5 kg;
banana - 150 g;
cottage cheese - 0, 2 kg;
sugar - 80 g;
chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
raisins - 30 g;
flour - how much will be spent on rolling dough

Method of preparation:

Cottage cheese put in a blender container, add sugar and one raw egg, cut into slices of banana.
Turn on the device and whisk the contents of its bowl, turning it into a homogeneous mass.
Put the banana-cheese mixture in a bowl, add the steamed raisins to it, mix.
Roll out the dough, cut it into squares. Start the prepared sweet mass.
Form envelopes, put on baking sheet.
Beat the second egg, brush them with buns.
Send a baking sheet to an oven preheated to 220 degrees, bake puffs for 15 minutes.

This dessert is not only tasty, but also healthy. The recipe will help out if you need to feed the children with cottage cheese, but in their pure form, they do not want to eat it. If you are on a diet, the amount of sugar in the composition of the filling can be halved or replaced with a low-calorie sweetener. However, you need to understand that by reducing the calorie content of the dessert, you still will not make it diet.

Banana puffs are a dessert that is popular with both children and adults. You can prepare a delicacy according to different recipes, and each option has its admirers.