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Pagáče: flaky Slovak sour cream biscuits

These flaky Slovak biscuits layer sour cream dough with butter dough, rolled and folded three times. Makes about 40, topped with sesame or salt.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak ·

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time
1 hr 30 min
Cook time
20–25 min
Total time
1 hr 50 min
Temperature
180 °C (350 °F)
Servings
About 40 biscuits
Difficulty
Medium
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Sour cream pagáče, savory Slovak biscuits, are made with two doughs: a sour cream dough made with flour, sour cream, and egg yolks, and a butter dough made with flour, butter, and salt. The doughs are rolled and folded together like puff pastry, giving the baked biscuits their layers.

The dough rests for 20 minutes between folds. The biscuits are topped with sesame seeds or coarse salt.

Ingredients

Sour cream dough

Butter dough

Topping

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Instructions

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  1. Make the two doughs

    Mix the flour, sour cream, and egg yolks into a dough. Separately, work the flour, cold butter, and salt together to make the butter dough.

  2. Roll and fold

    Roll out the sour cream dough on a floured work surface and place the butter dough on top. Roll them out together, then fold: fold one-third of the dough from left to right, fold the remaining third from right to left, then fold from bottom to top and from top to bottom to form a square block. Let rest for 20 minutes.

  3. Repeat

    Repeat the rolling and folding twice more, allowing 20 minutes of resting time between rounds.

  4. Bake

    Roll out the dough to about 1.5 cm thick and cut out the biscuits. Brush with beaten egg, sprinkle with sesame seeds or coarse salt, and bake in an oven preheated to 180°C (350°F) for about 20–25 minutes, until golden brown.

Tip: Between folds, let the dough rest in the refrigerator wrapped in plastic wrap so the butter stays cold and does not soak into the sour cream dough, helping the biscuits form distinct layers.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per piece, calculated from the ingredients

Energy
190 kcal
Protein
2.9 g
Carbohydrates
15 g
of which sugars
0.6 g
Fat
13 g
of which saturates
8.0 g
Fiber
0.6 g
Salt
0.2 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Smotanové pagáče z lístkového cesta s maslom

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