Well, if you had a Swiss croissant, you will have some idea about the Gipfeli recipe. Gipfeli is without a doubt one of the best pastries that will light up your mood.
Gipfeli more or less looks like a croissant, though it is different. It consists of flour, salt, sugar, yeast, milk, eggs, and some cold butter. You will find its taste a bit sweet with a crispy shell on it.
The Gipfeli Recipe is easy to get; all you have to do is go through it once, follow the steps, and you will get the perfect breakfast or a snack for yourself. You can eat it with jam or curd.
So without any further ado, let’s make some delicious Gipfeli.
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Gathering ingredients:
To be precise, in ingredients you need
- Flour of 500g
- About 250 ml of milk, and make sure it is warm.
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 7g of dry yeast
- 1 beaten egg
- 50 g of sugar
- 250 g of unsalted, a bit cold, sliced into small pieces of butter.
Direction:
Step 1: Adding yeast and milk
Take a small bowl, add yeast and warm milk, and start stirring for 1-2 minutes. Let it sit for 5 minutes.
Step 2: Adding ingredients to bowl
Take another bowl and add flour, sugar, and salt. Stir until well mixed. Make sure to leave a hole in the middle, pushing flour to the sides.
Step 3: Pour yeast and milk into the hole.
All you have to do is pour the mixture of yeast and milk in the hole. Now stir and mix everything until it becomes thick and doughy.
Step 4: Adding flour to Dough
Take the dough on a flat table and add some flour to it. Afterwards, let it sit for 10 minutes till it feels smooth in your hand.
Step 5: Dough to Greased Bowl
Now take a greased bowl and add dough to it. Cover and then let it sit in a room or slightly warm place for an hour. Slowly it will get bigger; when it will get twice its size, then stop.
Step 6: Making of a rectangle
Put the dough all ready on a table, add some flour, roll, and make a big rectangle.
Step 7: Adding cold butter
Simply add small pieces of cold butter on one half of the dough; likewise, fold the halfs over the butter and press to seal the edges.
Step 8: rolling and folding
Now again roll out the folded dough into a big rectangle. Afterwards, fold it into thirds like a letter. Do this and roll and fold two more times.
Step 9: Wrapping in Plastic
Slowly wrap the dough into plastic and add it to the fridge for 1 hour.
Step 10: Cutting into triangles
Now take the dough out and roll it out into a big rectangle again. Cut it into triangles then.
After chilling, roll out the dough into a big rectangle and cut it into triangles.
Step 11: Making of Gipfeli Shape
Roll each triangle from base to tip to make a shape like a crescent. Afterwards, put them on a baking sheet using parchment paper.
Step 12: Cover using damp cloth
Take a damp cloth and cover. It will rise more in 30 minutes. During that, preheat the oven to around 200°C. In the meantime, brush the gipfeli with egg. You can use a pastry brush.
Step 13: Serving
Add the tray to the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes till it gets golden brown and puffed. You can fill it with anything you like. You can add a mixture of some BBQ chicken, jam curd, or anything you like.
Final Viewpoints:
Gipfeli is somehow an underrated snack; in fact, it is very delicious and unique, especially since you can fill it with anything sweet or spicy you like.