Pastries and baking
ChefOla Faour
Dough for Pastries
A single, versatile dough for many uses — from filled rolls to pizza, honeycomb pastries and more. We hope you try it!
Pastry dough — one simple, versatile recipe
Ingredients
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- 5 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons yeast
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- A pinch of salt
- 3 tablespoons oil (vegetable or neutral oil)
- 1/2 cup plain yogurt
- 1 1/2 cups warm water, or as needed depending on the flour
- To make more delicious pastries, how about the recipe for Pretzel Pastries
Method
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- Mix the yeast, yogurt and warm water. Leave for 10 minutes to activate the yeast.Timers: 10 min
- Add the remaining ingredients and knead by hand for 10 minutes (not less). Add water if needed, but in small amounts. You should end up with a cohesive, soft dough.
- Let the dough rest for one hour or until ready to use.
- Use this dough for cheese rolls, chocolate rolls, za'atar pastries, pizza, honeycomb pastries and other baked goods.
Recipe tags
Pastries and bakingInternationalVegetarianGluten freeNut freeEgg free
Notes and serving ideas
- Pretzel Pastries
