The history of this remarkable dessert is known, if not all, then very many. The famous pie-pivot came to light as a result of the forgetfulness of two French sisters, who overcame apple caramel on the stove. The inventive French women found nothing better than to cover the mountain-dessert layer of puff pastry and bake. Ready-made pie impressed guests with its unusual bitter taste.
Well, arguing with them is difficult, because apple taten has a truly unusual taste and no less unusual, fascinating appearance.
Tartan with apples - recipe
Despite the fact that the original of this dish is often cooked on a puff pastry, we will stop at least the classic recipe of chopped dough, which will save you from hassle with layering and waste of excess time.
Ingredients:
For the test:
- flour - 300 g;
- butter - 150 g;
- cold water - 1/3;
- salt - pinch.
For filling:
- sugar - 5 tbsp. spoons;
- apples (solid, green) - 2 pieces;
- lemon juice - 1 spoon;
- water - 2 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
We begin to prepare the apple taten from the dough. The first thing to do is sift flour with salt. Ice butter is cut into cubes and again sent to the freezer. The main difficulty of this test is the maintenance of a constant cold: the oil can not even begin to melt, otherwise everything will go to waste, so watch its temperature and keep it at the lowest possible level.
Further butter cubes are thrown into the flour and we drop them so that they are covered. After that we start to unscrew the oil directly in the flour, hands scrape off periodically sticking to the rolling pin pieces. Roll out the dough until it turns into a dense layer, then carefully, on a tablespoon we pour ice water onto it, lightly knead the dough to turn it into a ball, wrap the ball and put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
While the dough cools down, let's make caramel: put sugar with a few tablespoons of water on the stove, stir the caramel until it dissolves completely and start boiling, then do not touch it again and only control the degree of its darkening visually: the darker the caramel, the more bitter it tastes.
Next, in an all-in-one form, pour a layer of caramel, lay out thin plates of solid apples, from above cover the dish with a round of dough of the appropriate diameter, rolled out not too thinly. All that's left is to bake a cake taten with apples at 190 degrees 30-35 minutes.
French apple pie taten is served without unnecessary decorations, because he is the decoration of any table, as well as the famous Madeleine cookies and pasta cake .