Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)


Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)
Sweetcrust pastry is one of the basic pastry of French patisserie, used in many tart and cakes recipes, but it can also be rolled out and cut into biscuits, delicious with tea or coffee.

This recipe is given for those who have a mixer (Kenwood, KitchenAid or other), but it can also be done with your hands.

Please note that it's very important to make it several hours before using it, if possible the day before, as then it's much easier to work.
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Last modified on: July 1st 2019

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For 1 kg 220 g, you will need:

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Step by step recipe


Stage 1 - 5 min.
Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)
Put 500 g plain white flour (French Type 45), 350 g butter, 2 eggs, 110 g caster sugar, 125 g ground almonds and 5 g fine (or table) salt in the mixer bowl.

Stage 2
Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)
Start to knead on low speed.

Stage 3 - 3 min.
Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)
After a few minutes the pastry will form. Stop the mixer as soon as possible to get an easy to work dough.

There is no problem if there are still some small pieces of butter not completely mixed in.

Stage 4 - 5 min.
Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)
Finish mixing the dough with a maryse.

Stage 5 - 5 min.
Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)
Put a sheet of plastic film on your weighing-scales, and weigh out about 320 g dough.

Stage 6 - 5 min.
Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)
Form it into a ball.

Stage 7 - 5 min.
Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)
Then flatten the ball into a cake. This will help when you come to out roll it out.

Note that the more flatter it is at this stage, easier it will be later.

Stage 8 - 5 min.
Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)
Wrap the pastry in the plastic film, and write on top what it is.

Stage 9
Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)
Repeat the operation until the end of dough, and put any pastry which you do not intend use within the next few days in the freezer.
Remarks
Look at this page to see how to to roll out pastry for a tart, and how to "bake blind".
Keeping
Several days in the fridge, covered by a plastic film.
Source
After Gaston Lenôtre.
Nutritional information
Whole recipe
Energetic valueProteins CarbohydratesFats
5,814 Kcal or 24,342 Kj89 gr507 gr381 gr
291 %34 %48 %58 %
Per 100 g
Energetic valueProteins CarbohydratesFats
546 Kcal or 2,286 Kj8 gr48 gr36 gr
27 %3 %4 %5 %
% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).
Possible allergens in this recipe: Gluten, Milk, Egg, Nuts
How much will it cost?
  • For 1 kg 220 g : 3.59 €

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Plain white flour (French Type 45)Plain white flour (French Type 45): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Brioche dough, Yeast-based flaky dough (for croissants), ... All
ButterButter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chilli chicken and spinach gratin, Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée), Fried bread with leek and poached egg , White bean gratin "à l'italienne", Little lemon biscuits, ... All
Caster sugarCaster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Panettone, Nougat, Quick bramble jelly, Cranachan, Blackcurrant-almond muffins, ... All
Fine (or table) saltFine (or table) salt: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Sea bass with Indian spices, Breton sablé biscuit dough, Cramique, Bonnevaux apple tart, Mustard baps, ... All
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