Ramadan 2015 recipe: Puff pastry pizza

We usually buy the puff pastry from store and Making it at home is definitely time consuming and need patience.

However it gives me immense pleasure to prepare an item from scratch and to see my family enjoying it. The hardest part is preparing the pastry itself.

Once you make it, you can fill it with anything you want - a veg pizza or with chicken, egg or can just spread some Nutella and add some fruits, you have a dessert !!

Here goes the Recipe for puff pastry pizza:

Puff Pastry

250 fm plain flour

1 tsp fine sea salt

250g butter, at room temperature, but not soft

about 150ml of cold water

Method

Sift the flour and salt into a large bowl. Roughly break the butter in small chunks, add them to the bowl and rub them in loosely. You need to see bits of butter

Make a well in the bowl and pour in about two-thirds of the cold water, mixing until you have a firm rough dough adding extra water if needed. Cover with cling film and leave to rest for 20 mins in the fridge.

Turn out onto a lightly floured board, knead gently and form into a smooth rectangle. Roll the dough in one direction only, until 3 times the width, about 20 x 50cm. Keep edges straight and even. Don't overwork the butter streaks; you should have a marbled effect.

Fold the top third down to the centre, then the bottom third up and over that. Give the dough a quarter turn (to the left or right) and roll out again to three times the length. Fold as before, cover with cling film and chill for at least 20 mins before rolling to use.

For the pizza

Preheat oven at 200C.

Cut the puff pastry into desired shape. I opted to go for savory and added chopped bell peppers, jalapeño, onion, mushroom, mozzarella cheese .

sprinkle salt and pepper.

Put it in the oven for 20-25mins until crispy golden and the cheese has melted and Walla !!!! You have a perfectly crunchy Puff pastry ready to eat. It's delicious.