Many housewives love to pamper their household with delicious and satisfying pastries. But not everyone has enough time to prepare the dough. In this case, puff pastry and apples come to the rescue. This baking does not take much time, does not require special culinary skills, and apples are a public product, inexpensive and quick to process.
Buy or cook?
Today there are a huge number of recipes for making puff pastry at home. The hostesses have a choice: buy dough in a store or make it yourself? Experts say that preparing a truly delicious puff pastry is a rather complicated and lengthy process. So choose high-quality dough in the store and cook without spending time and effort.
Further recipes are offered in view of the fact that you have already bought puff pastry, taken out of the freezer, thawed and ready to go.
How to roll?
It is important to remember that puff pastry rolls strictly in one direction. Do not roll the dough quickly, as you do when cooking dumplings. Puff pastry with apples requires care and accuracy. Try not to roll out the dough before it finally defrosts. If you start to cut or roll out the ice cream dough, it will simply break and will not work well in the oven.
Envelopes with apples
To prepare envelopes from puff pastry you will need: a pound of dough, five large apples, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of granulated sugar, 30 grams of butter, two teaspoons of cinnamon, lemon juice.
The initial stage of preparation will be the preparation of the filling. Any pastry made from puff pastry with apples requires that the filling be cut finely enough. Apples will need to be cut into very small cubes or strips, sprinkled with lemon juice. The next step is frying apples in butter with the addition of cinnamon and granulated sugar.
While apples are fried, you need to prepare puff pastry. Baked recipes with apples imply that the dough will be rolled out in a sufficiently thick layer. Apples give a lot of juice when cooking, so the dough should not creep in the process. One piece of dough can be divided into four or six large parts. Roll out each piece a bit.
The cooled fried apples with cinnamon are laid out on a piece of dough and wrapped in the form of an envelope or a triangle. The process is pretty fast. About 15 minutes will be fried pastries from puff pastry with apples. Many recipes suggest preheating the oven to 220 degrees, but experts say that 180-190 degrees is enough to make the dough come out and brown.
Lazy Apple Pie
This recipe is even faster and easier than the previous one. Here, pastries from puff pastry with apples are presented in the form of a large hearty pie. For cooking you will need: 200-300 grams of puff pastry, two large apples, 2-3 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar, a little cinnamon, a small bag of vanillin, the juice of half a lemon.
As always, cooking begins with preparing the filling. This recipe uses apple cubes about half a centimeter thick. Pie - pastries from puff pastry with apples, which implies a fairly large amount of filling. Therefore, if two apples are not enough, add more. Remember that the filling just sticks out of the pie. It will be juicier and tastier. Apples will need to be flavored with vanilla, granulated sugar (caster) and cinnamon, sprinkled with lemon juice first.
As a rule, in a package with dough comes two pieces. So, from one package you should get two hearty apple pies. Each piece rolls out a little. In the middle, several cuts are made. They are needed so that the dough is better baked and raised during cooking in the oven.
Next, the filling will be superimposed on the slices. It should be a lot. From two edges, the filling is closed with parts of the dough and fixed. Top pie can be anointed with egg yolk or vegetable oil. The baking time is 15-20 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 degrees.
Tart Taten
The French are known to be big lovers of lush puff pastries. Therefore, we recommend trying their traditional puff pastry apple pie.
For cooking you need: 250 grams of puff pastry, 150 grams of sugar, 150 grams of butter, 5-6 apples, cinnamon.
This is an open cake, so the filling should not be closed. Cooking time 20 minutes with baking in the oven. The recipe is uniquely fast.
Place a piece of melted butter on the mold. A piece of puff pastry is laid out on a well-oiled form. Above is a filling of apples. Apples should be cut large enough, mixed with sugar and cinnamon. They can be laid in stripes or laid out in a fan, circle and flower.
The cake is baked in the oven, heated to 200 degrees, ten minutes. Served both hot and cold in combination with ice cream.