Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, apple (apfel) strudel. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Apple (Apfel) Strudel is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Apple (Apfel) Strudel is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
Traditional Viennese Apple Strudel is made with strudel dough. A soft dough made with only a handful of ingredients that's hand- stretched into a paper-thin sheet the size of a tabletop. But many are afraid of making a strudel dough, so recipes these days often cheat by using sheets of purchased phyllo dough or puff pastry.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook apple (apfel) strudel using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Apple (Apfel) Strudel:
- Take 1 1/2 LB Granny Smith apples
- Make ready Juice and zest of 1/2 lemon
- Take 3 oz Demerara or golden caster sugar
- Make ready 3 oz sultanas or golden raisins
- Take 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare 4 oz butter
- Take 2 oz breadcrumbs
- Prepare 8 sheets filo pastry
- Get Icing sugar, for dusting
The filling is made of grated cooking apples (usually of a tart, crisp and aromatic variety, such as Winesap apples) sugar, cinnamon,, and bread crumbs. This Apfelstrudel recipe (German Apple Strudel recipe) might sound daunting, but it's much easier than it seems and so much fun to make. And the resulting apple strudel is a delicious, festive dessert filled with sweet, spiced apples and raisins in a flaky crust that everyone will love. Classic apple strudel is surprisingly easy to make.
Instructions to make Apple (Apfel) Strudel:
- Preheat oven, 190c / 170c fan/ gas 5
- Line a baking sheet with greaseproof paper or baking parchment
- Core, quarter and slice the Apple's, you can peel them or not, your choice,add the lemon zest and juice, cinnamon, sugar and sultanas or raisins, stir together.
- In a frying pan melt 1 oz butter, add breadcrumbs and fry gently until golden brown, put to one side.
- In another pan gently melt rest of butter.
- Place 1 sheet of filo on a clean dry tea towel (keep the rest under a damp tea towel so they Don't dry out) brush with melted butter, place another sheet overlapping the first by half, brush with melted butter, carry on adding sheets, alternating, and brushing with melted butter until all sheets are used.
- Sprinkle breadcrumbs over filo.
- Place Apple mixture in a pile along the length of the pastry, about 1 inch from edge. Using the tea towel, roll the pastry up to enclose the filling (like a Swiss roll), tuck the ends underneath and place on the baking sheet with the seam underneath. You can shape into a horseshoe or leave 'long' Brush with remaining melted butter.
- Place in centre of oven for 40 -45 minutes until golden brown and crisp, allow to cool, then dust with icing sugar.
- Cut into slices and serve. I like mine with decent vanila ice cream but cream or custard works too, your choice.
- Option. You can add 2 oz chopped almonds at step 8
This old-fashioned, traditional Viennese apple strudel (Altwiener apfelstrudel) recipe contains simple ingredients, like apples, raisins, sugar, and cinnamon and is encased in a thin sheet of unleavened dough. This apple strudel recipe starts with puff pastry. You can make your own, but I think the frozen variety is equally good. You might as well save yourself the time and trouble. This allows you to fit in all of the apple filling.
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