Apple Strudel - An Austrian speciality dessert
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Austrian
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Serves: 3 people
 
Flaky and crispy layers with juicy apples served with a homemade custard
Ingredients
  • 1 apple
  • ½ Tbsp brown sugar or regular granulated sugar
  • ½ Tbsp demerera sugar or regular granulated sugar
  • ½ Tsp cinnamon powder
  • 1 pinch freshly grated nutmeg
  • ¼ Tsp all spice powder (optional)
  • ½ Tbsp golden syrup (optional) or honey
  • 1 Tbsp fresh orange juice
  • 2-3 Tbsp mixed raisins
  • 1 Tbsp broken cashews
  • 9 X 5 puff pastry sheet or as required
  • Melted butter to brush on top
To Serve:
Method
  1. Cut an apple into halves, deseed it and discard the hard ends. Chop up the apples into bite sized pieces
  2. Add raisins and broken cashews
  3. Add cinnamon powder, nutmeg and all spice
  4. Add sugar
  5. Add golden syrup and orange juice
  6. Mix well. This is the filling
  7. Pre-heat oven to 180 Deg C. Roll out the thawed puff pastry dough or open up the thawed rolled puff pastry (see notes)
  8. Cut into 3 equal parts out of the 9 X 5 puff pastry sheet to get individual 3 X 5 rectangles
  9. Spoon apple mixture onto the centre of each pastry sheet
  10. Bring the ends together from either side diagonally as shown
  11. Brush with melted butter
  12. Bake in 180 Deg C oven for 20-25 minutes (middle rack) till the puff pastry is golden and crisp
  13. Serve warm with chilled custard, ice cream
Notes
Use eating apple, cooking apple will become mushy when baked and texture might not be very nice

The puff pastry can be even rolled into a log with the filling and then baked

Do not overload the pastries with the filling. If you have leftover serve it separately with leftover custard next day or make into apple jam by just blending it together and cooking till it turns jammy

Add any spices you like but cinnamon is the most common and goes very well with apples

Use regular granulated sugar if you do not have brown or demerera sugar

The recipe can be easily doubled

Work with puff pastry quickly, if frozen thaw overnight in fridge or 2 hours at room temperature but work quickly so that the dough does not stick to your hands

Use freshly squeezed lemon/lime juice in place of orange juice, this is just to provide a little tartness to the sweet apples

Make filling ahead of time and refrigerate, make custard ahead of time and chill it. This way you can assemble the dessert in minutes and do other work when it bakes
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/apple-strudel/