Many people know and love such a dessert as charlotte with apples, the recipe of which is familiar to almost every housewife. However, not everyone knows where this dish came from and why it is called that. There are many versions and each has the right to be called original. One version is based on the fact that a certain ardently in love cook created this dish for his beloved and called it her name.
But it seems that the next version may claim the title of the most realistic. It is believed that in the 18th century this dessert was created and named after the wife of George III, Queen Charlotte, who was fond of breeding various gardens, mainly apple.
Accordingly, along with a huge number of opinions about the occurrence of this dish, there are many ways of cooking. Probably, every mistress prepares charlotte in her own way. However, many believe that this recipe can be prepared not only with apples, but also with other berries, but the most traditional one is still charlotte with apples, the recipe of which we will give in this article.
Here, for example, a charlotte made from apples is a gourmet recipe, the result is not just a pie, but a delicious chocolate pie with apples.
Required:
Eggs - 5 pcs., Sugar - 1 glass, apples - 1 kg., Vanilla sugar - 2 bags, flour - 1 glass, dark chocolate - 100 gr., Cl. oil - 20 gr., soda - 0.5 tbsp (slaked), a little lemon juice and rast. oils for a baking sheet or mold.
Cooking:
Before you start cooking, you need to warm the butter so that it softens a little (but do not melt it), and, on the contrary, put the chocolate in the refrigerator.
Cook the apples, peel and peel them and cut them into thin slices, then pour lemon juice (1 tablespoon) on them and mix so that they do not darken.
To prepare the dough, you need to thoroughly beat the eggs in the foam, gradually add vanilla sugar there and whisk again. Next, put the butter and hydrated soda in the resulting mass , grate a bar of chocolate and mix everything thoroughly. Then add flour and mix until smooth.
In the resulting dough, put the apples and mix. Put the resulting mass on a pre-greased form or baking sheet and place in the oven. The total cooking time is about 30 minutes, the main thing in the baking process is not to open the oven door so that the dough does not fall.
When the dish is ready, it can be decorated to your taste.
And you can cook a dietary option, charlotte with apples, the recipe for the dough is based not on flour, but on cottage cheese. Such a gourmet dish will be not only tasty, but also healthy. To prepare such a charlotte you will need:
Filling:
1 tablespoon fructose, 100 ml. orange juice, 6 medium apples and 1 tsp. cinnamon.
Dough:
300 gr cottage cheese, 4 eggs, 150 ml. milk and 1 tablespoon fructose.
Cooking:
Prepare apples, as in the previous recipe, but do not mix them with lemon juice, but boil them in syrup. To do this , add fructose to the orange juice , put on fire and stir constantly. Bring to a boil and boil until then, until the mass becomes half in volume by half. Then dip the prepared apples into the syrup and cook them until half cooked. Then put half the stewed apples on a plate and sprinkle with a small amount of cinnamon, and bring the remaining apples to readiness.
To prepare the dough, you need to mix all the ingredients and arrange them in tins. In this case, it is better to use molds for soufflé or cupcakes. At the bottom of each lay apples with syrup, then pour over the curd dough. The main thing is not to forget that the mold should not be poured full so that the dough does not leak out. After the preparations are baked, the remaining apples with cinnamon must be put in them and sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Charlotte with apples recipe that you just read, cooks for 40 minutes, at a temperature of 180 degrees.
And if you show imagination and it is interesting to decorate this dessert, then you can get a charlotte cake whose recipe you can imagine yourself, only showing a little imagination.