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Apple (Apfel) Strudel is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Apple (Apfel) Strudel is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
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 begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook apple (apfel) strudel using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Apple (Apfel) Strudel:
- Get 1 1/2 LB Granny Smith apples
- Prepare Juice and zest of 1/2 lemon
- Make ready 3 oz Demerara or golden caster sugar
- Get 3 oz sultanas or golden raisins
- Prepare 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 4 oz butter
- Prepare 2 oz breadcrumbs
- Get 8 sheets filo pastry
- Prepare Icing sugar, for dusting
Roll lightly with a rolling pin. Apple strudel dough is a thin, elastic dough, consisting of many thin layers and known as "Blätterteig", the traditional preparation of which is a difficult process. The dough is kneaded by flogging, often against a table top. Dough that appears thick or lumpy after flogging is generally discarded and a new batch is started.
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
Classic apple strudel is surprisingly easy to make. 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. Editor's Note: To make fresh bread crumbs, tear bread into pieces and place in a food processor; pulse until fine crumbs form. Editor's Note To make soft bread crumbs, tear bread into pieces and place in a food processor or blender. This Apfelstrudel recipe (German Apple Strudel recipe) might sound daunting, but it's much easier than it seems and so much fun to make.
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