This pastry dough recipe comes from Ina Garten's "Barefoot Contessa" series on "Back to Basics". It is made with a food processor with minimal ingredients. If this turns out I will be using it for an Apple Gallette recipe first. Let's see how it goes....
Easy Pastry Dough...in a food processor
The Ingredients are:
2 C. All purpose flour
1/2 tsp. kosher salt
1 Tbs. sugar
12 Tbs. unsalted cold butter diced (1 1/2 sticks)
1/2 C. Ice water
I have the flour, salt and sugar already in the processor.
Pulse the flour, sugar and salt a
few times to blend
Add the diced cold butter and pulse
10-12 times until the butter and flour are pea sized bits.
Now gradually add the ice water while pulsing until a dough is formed
The dough is now formed enough
to handle.
Turn out onto a floured surface
and knead the dough a few times
Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate at least
1 hour.
The final product thoughts: I enjoyed the end result. It was flaky, however I think I should have pulsed that butter and flour a few less times to get bigger pea size shapes. Mine were a bit too small and I don't think I got the dough as flaky as it could have been. I did use the dough for a recipe and loved it! See: Apple & Apricot Galette
