Croissants

Ingredients:

600g plain flour

350 ml of warm milk

4 tablespoons oil

0.5 pieces of baking powder

1 bag of dried or 20 g of fresh yeast

1 egg

200-250 g of butter (for coating the dough circles)

2 teaspoons salt

Coating before baking:

1 egg

Pinch of salt

Sesame or other small seeds for sprinkling

For a sweet variation in the dough, add 1 lemon zest or orange, 1 vanilla sugar, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract and 3 tablespoons of powdered sugar.

Charging (salty): salty cheese, cream cheese, ham, ham-cheese, cheese + spinach (your choice)

Charging (sweet): Nutella, various jams, stuffing of ground hazelnuts and sugar or poppy seeds, walnuts, almonds.

Preparation:

First dry or fresh yeast, flour, sugar and a little warm milk, mix and leave to rise.

2. In a bowl mix well the flour, baking powder and salt and add the risen yeast, lukewarm milk that are mixed with oil, and at the end of an egg. Knead a smooth dough.

3. When you have kneaded the dough, divide it into 8 balls. Roll out the dough into a circle with a diameter of 15-20 cm and so that when the first round of stretch to it Arrange thinly sliced or grated slices of butter (or well soften butter, apply with a brush or spoon) and agree on it the next round. Doing so until you get to the eighth round of dough you put the last and do not put butter.

4. Now as complex well roll the dough into a circle to a thickness of less than one centimeter. Cut the first four parts, and each quarter even at 4 parts if you want more croissants or 6 parts if you want less croissants.

5. croissants filled with stuffing that you want, either sweet or salty. From savory fillings, my favorite stuffing salty feta cheese or cream cheese and sweet of all possible fillings! Charge of the wider part of the spoon, press well to prevent the stuffing went out during baking and roll in snails, respectively, in the form of a croissant. Arrange on a baking sheet on which you put a baking sheet and let rise one croissants 30 - 45 min.

6. Start the oven that is heated in the meantime, brush croissants with a mixture of an egg and salt and sprinkle with sesame seeds or other that you love (with salted croissants).

7. Bake at 200 ° C for a 20-25 minutes, or until croissants not assume a nice golden color.