This apple strudel is a departure from the traditional Austrian recipe. Instead of puff pastry, ready-made puff pastry is used, which saves a lot of time.

The baked goods are very tasty and aromatic. Puff pie goes well with apple filling, sweet and sour, with a spicy aroma of cinnamon. And if you complement the dessert with a scoop of ice cream and a cup of strong coffee, it is simply impossible to tear yourself away from it!

Apples stewed in butter with sugar and cinnamon are used as a filling. Walnut perfectly sets off their taste, so be sure to add at least one nut, crushed into small crumbs. And to feel confident in the process of making the "flaky" apple strudel, follow the step-by-step recipe.

Ingredients

• yeast-free puff pastry 400 g
• wheat flour 3 tbsp. l.
• green apples 4 pcs.
• butter 20 g
• sugar 80 g
• cinnamon 1 tsp
• bread crumbs 1.5 tbsp. l.
• walnuts 1-2 pcs.
• egg yolk 1 pc.

How to make puff pastry apple strudel

1. We release the puff pastry from the packaging and leave it to defrost at room temperature, covered with a towel. In the meantime, we are preparing the apple filling for our strudel. To do this, peel the apples (sour variety) and cut out the cores. Then we cut the pulp into cubes - not too finely, otherwise, with double heat treatment, they will lose their shape and turn into jam.
2. 
   Next, melt the butter in a skillet or saucepan. Put apples in the heated oil, add cinnamon and granulated sugar.
3. 
   Increase the heat and cook the apples, stirring for 5-7 minutes until all the liquid softens and evaporates. The filling will keep its shape perfectly, the apple pieces will remain intact, completely saturated with the aroma of cinnamon and sugar syrup.
4. 
   Put the melted puff pastry on a work surface sprinkled with flour. We roll it into a thin rectangular layer (about 30x35 cm). Mix the bread crumbs with dried walnuts, chopped in a blender to a state of fine crumbs. Add a tablespoon of sugar and a couple of pinches of cinnamon. Sprinkle the dough evenly with the resulting crumb, not reaching the edges. Put the apple filling on top.
5. 
   We fold the dough into a roll so that the filling is completely closed.
6. 
   We carefully fold the sides of our roll down. We place the product on a baking sheet lined with parchment. Lubricate the top with yolk, loose with a spoonful of water.
7. 
   We make transverse cuts on the roll, through which air will escape during baking.
8. 
   We send the baking sheet to the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. Bake for 30-40 minutes, until the top of the strudel is browned.
9. Sprinkle the dessert with powdered sugar.
   Serve the apple strudel, while still warm, topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

On a note:

As a filling, you can use not only apples, cherries, cottage cheese or poppy seeds are perfect.

Cooking apple strudel with pine nuts step by step:

1. Wash the apples.
2. Cut the fruit into 4 pieces to make it easier to remove the center with seeds. If the skin is tough, cut it off.
3. Cut apples into thin slices.
4. Put a frying pan or saucepan on the fire, melt the butter.
5. Then add sugar and chopped apples to the butter.
6. Simmer the apples for about 15 minutes, stirring constantly. Let all the liquid evaporate.
7. Then scald the raisins with boiling water and let it soak in hot water for 10-15 minutes.
8. Combine the stewed apples with raisins and walnuts.
9. Roll out the defrosted puff pastry and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
10. Then place the filling on the lower edge of the dough, and back off 2 cm from the sides.
11. Wrap the filled dough in a roll.
12. Lay a piece of parchment on a baking sheet and place a roll on top.
13. Grease the surface of the roll with butter and make several cuts.
14. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and send the roll there for 40 minutes.
15. Brush the finished strudel again with a little butter.
16. Dust the treat with powdered sugar.

This strudel version does not use nuts or raisins, but cinnamon is indispensable.

Ingredients:

• Yeast-free puff pastry - 250 g (half a standard package of ready-made dough)
• Wheat flour - 3 tablespoons
• Butter - 2 tablespoons
• Apple - 6 pcs. (small, strong, green)
• Sugar - 100 g
• Cinnamon - 0.5 tsp (can be increased to 1 tsp)
• Butter - 1 tablespoon
• Sugar - 2 tablespoons

Step by step preparation of apple and cinnamon strudel:

1. Defrost the dough. Transfer a piece of dough from the freezer to the refrigerator overnight, or thaw at room temperature for 3 hours.
2. Wash the apples, peel them off and core them with seeds.
3. Cut the apples into thin slices.
4. Then put a skillet on the fire and melt a piece of butter on it.
5. Then pour one tablespoon of the melted butter aside for later use on the surface of the strudel.
6. Put apples, sugar and cinnamon in the butter left in the pan.
7. Simmer apples over moderate heat and stir constantly.
8. When all the liquid has evaporated from the pan, the filling can be put on a plate and cooled.
9. Flour the table and rolling pin and roll out the puff pastry. The size of the resulting rectangle should be about 30 by 35 cm. Roll the dough in one direction only.
10. Now move on to laying out the filling on a puff pastry layer. It should occupy about a third of the formation. The filling should recede from the edges by 2-3 cm.
11. Cover it with one side of the layer first, and then the other.
12. Flip the strudel upside down and make several cuts on its surface.
13. Transfer the roll to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
14. Lubricate the surface of the strudel with the remaining butter, which we previously poured into a separate container.
15. Sprinkle with sugar on top.
16. Then send it to bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 40 minutes.
17. The remaining dough can be cut into cubes, covered with butter, sprinkled with sugar and also baked with strudel.

Apple strudel with raisins

The raisins for this recipe must be pitted. The dish turns out to be very aromatic and lush.

Ingredients:

• Yeast-free puff pastry - 500 g
• Sweet and sour apples - 4 pcs.
• Seedless raisins - 100 g
• Granulated sugar - 3 tablespoons
• Butter - 80 g
• Ground cinnamon - 2 tsp
• Chicken egg - 1 pc.
• Powdered sugar - 2 tablespoons
• Breadcrumbs - 2 tablespoons

How to prepare apple strudel with raisins step by step:

1. Defrost the puff pastry.
2. Rinse the raisins in boiling water, and then leave them to steam in hot water for 15 minutes.
3. Wash the apples, peel the stalk and seeds and cut into thin slices.
4. Now melt the butter in a hot skillet and transfer the apples to it.
5. Simmer them for 15-25 minutes, until almost all the liquid has evaporated.
6. After that, pour sugar into the apples and simmer for another 5 minutes. Remember to stir them constantly.
7. Now pour the cinnamon into the apples, stir the filling and set aside in a separate bowl to cool.
8. Roll out the dough into an elongated rectangle and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
9. Then scatter the dough and raisins over the layer. When distributing the filling, step back about 5 cm from the edge.
10. Now place stewed cooled apples on crackers and raisins.
11. Then roll up the roll, starting at the edge with the filling.
12. Having rolled up the roll, secure its top layer, which is without filling, and transfer to a baking sheet covered with parchment.
13. Next, coat the roll with a beaten egg.
14. Sprinkle the strudel with granulated sugar or powdered sugar.
15. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
16. Transfer the roll to the oven for 40 minutes.
17. Serve the finished dish with ice cream and tea to your taste.

Viennese apple strudel

This puff pastry apple strudel differs from the others in its unusual way of rolling the roll, as well as in the cooking process itself.

Ingredients:

• Ripe apples - 2-3 pcs.
• Puff pastry - 1 pack (500 g)
• Granulated sugar - 50 g
• Seasoning for baking - 1 tsp
• Breadcrumbs or biscuit crumbs - 100 g
• Quail egg for greasing - 1 pc.

Step-by-step preparation of Viennese apple strudel:

1. Defrost the puff pastry by transferring it from the freezer to the refrigerator overnight.
2. Wash the apples and remove the seeds and core. The peel can be left on if it is thin.
3. Cut each apple into 4 pieces and then cut into small cubes.
4. Now put the saucepan on the fire, pour in some water, add chopped apples and granulated sugar.
5. Next, add baking seasoning to the apples.
6. Simmer them over moderate heat for about 10 minutes to halve the contents of the saucepan.
7. Bring the apples to such a state that they are caramelized in the sugar, then you can turn off the heat.
8. Roll out the dough into an elongated layer and cut one edge of it into strips, but not completely.
9. Place bread crumbs on the edge that is not cut.
10. Then place the apple filling on the crackers. Make sure that it recedes by 3-4 cm from the side edges.
11. Now cover the sides of the filling with the dough, and then roll up the roll. You should have a notched edge on top.
12. Next, place a piece of baking paper on a baking sheet, and put your roll on top.
13. Lubricate the surface with a beaten quail egg.
14. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees in advance.
15. Place the roll in the oven for 30 minutes.
16. Cut the slightly cooled strudel into pieces and sprinkle with powdered sugar on top. Bon Appetit!

A lighter version of making apple strudel

This recipe does not use nuts, raisins, or butter, which significantly affects the calorie content of the dish. Such strudel can be eaten occasionally even on a diet.

Ingredients:

• Puff pastry - 250 g
• Sweet and sour apple - 4 pcs.
• Cinnamon - 1 tsp
• Sugar - 3 tsp

How to make a light apple strudel step by step:

1. Defrost the puff pastry at room temperature for several hours. This usually takes about 4 hours.
2. Wash the apples and separate the center with seeds from them.
3. Cut them into thin pieces.
4. In a clean bowl, combine chopped apples, granulated sugar and cinnamon.
5. Then roll out the dough into a thin layer, its thickness should be only a couple of millimeters.
6. If the dough sticks to the rolling pin, treat both the layer and the rolling pin with flour.
7. Place the filling on the bottom edge of the puff pastry, about 5 cm away from the edge.
8. Put the edge of the dough on top of the filling, as well as the sides of the layer.
9. Roll the filled dough into a roll.
10. Now move it to a parchment-lined baking sheet.
11. Wrap the stuffed roll in a bagel.
12. Heat the oven and send the roll into it.
13. Bake the strudel for about 30-35 minutes until a brownish crust forms.
14. Remove the finished strudel from the oven, wait until it cools slightly, and cut it into pieces.
15. Serve with freshly squeezed apple or orange juice.

Austrian puff pastry apple strudel

This recipe makes an apple strudel made from ready-made puff pastry using walnuts. This option should appeal to those who do not like cinnamon.

Ingredients:

• Ready-made puff pastry - 1 layer (15 * 20 cm)
• Apple - 1 pc. medium size
• Walnuts - 80 g
• Raisins - 3 handfuls
• Sugar - 2 tablespoons
• A crumb of crackers (bread crumbs without additives) - 4-5 tbsp.
• Butter - for lubricating formations
• Egg for greasing the roll - 1 pc.

How to prepare Austrian apple strudel from puff pastry step by step:

1. Defrost the dough first.
2. Then pour boiling water over the raisins and soak them in cold water.
3. Peel apples, stalks and all hard parts. Cut them into thin, small pieces.
4. Break the nuts into small pieces.
5. Roll out the dough into a thin layer. This is best done on some kind of thin kitchen towel.
6. In a bowl, combine apples, soaked raisins, granulated sugar, and crushed nuts.
7. Brush the puff pastry with melted butter. Just do not touch the edges, leave them sticky to fix the roll later.
8. Now crush the bread crumbs into one part of the layer.
9. Place the filling on top of them.
10. Now, helping yourself with a towel, roll up the roll.
11. Pinch the side edges of the roll so that the filling does not run away.
12. Set the oven to heat up to 180 degrees.
13. Place a sheet of parchment paper on a baking sheet.
14. Place the roll on the parchment.
15. Beat the egg and brush over the roll.
16. Place the future strudel in the oven for 35 minutes.

Serve the finished dish with ice cream or simply pour melted chocolate on the sliced ​​strudel. You can start a delicious tea party. Bon Appetit!

How to serve apple strudel correctly?

An apple strudel can help out at the moment when unexpected guests come. If you have a piece of puff pastry lying around in your freezer, then you will quickly prepare an excellent treat for tea drinking.

You can serve sliced ​​apple strudel with green or black tea, depending on your taste. You can also serve it with milk, which is very popular with children. This treat also goes well with cocoa and coffee.

Apple strudel can be eaten during an afternoon snack, combined with natural yogurt or biokefir. In such a culinary composition, it is well absorbed.

Apple strudel video recipes

Now you know how to make puff pastry strudel in several ways. Treat yourself and loved ones more often with delicious and aromatic pastries, accompanied by pleasant conversations.

Strudel is a truly ingenious pastry.

Fragrant, juicy, with an appetizing crust.

What Austrians are great!

We can thank them for inventing the strudel. And we just have to learn how to do it correctly.

What are the special features of making and baking puff pastry apple strudel?

Puff pastry apple strudel - general principles of preparation

Strudel is a roll with a juicy and aromatic filling. In fact, it is very easy to prepare it if you use ready-made dough. If you knead and lay it yourself, then it will take much more time. Stewed apples are mainly used for the filling. The filling must be prepared in advance so that it cools down.

What else is added to apples:

Other fruits;

The puff pastry is rolled into a layer, the filling is laid out and rolled up. You can just fold the edges inward one by one. But more often they roll a roll. This is not so easy to do, the filling strives to get enough sleep. Therefore, twisting is done with a piece of parchment or a kitchen towel.

The finished product is lubricated. To do this, use butter or an egg. And be sure to make holes on top through which steam will escape. The strudel is baked in the oven. Planting temperature 190-200 degrees. Usually 30-40 minutes is enough for a puff pastry product. But we are guided by the look.

Recipe 1: Plain Puff Pastry Apple Strudel

To make a quick and easy apple strudel, you need a yeast-free puff pastry. The quantity is approximate. If there is more in the pack, then separate it by eye.

Ingredients

4 tablespoons of sugar;

3 tablespoons of butter;

0.25 kg of dough;

3 tablespoons flour;

0.5 tablespoons of cinnamon;

Preparation

1. Take the dough out of the freezer in advance, let it thaw on the table. If you don't have time, you can defrost it in the microwave.

2. Rinse the apples, wipe them off. Cut in half, core and chop into thin slices. We leave the skin.

3. Heat two tablespoons of oil in a frying pan, put apples and add half of the sugar. Fry lightly, evaporate the liquid. This will take about 12 minutes. Cool the filling, add cinnamon to it.

4. Roll out the dough into a rectangular layer 30 by 35 centimeters.

5. Sprinkle with wheat flour. This will prevent the apple juice from souring the base.

6. Lay out the cooled filling and roll up the strudel. You just need to wrap inward one edge first, and then the other.

7. Turn over. The seam should be at the bottom. We transfer to a baking sheet.

8. Melt the remaining spoonful of butter and grease our bundle. Sprinkle with the remaining sugar. From above, be sure to make several cuts so that steam comes out of them.

9. Bake until tender.

Recipe 2: Strudel with apples from puff pastry "Nut"

You will need walnuts to make this aromatic apple strudel made from puff pastry. Of course, you can use peanuts, hazelnuts, but with them it turns out completely different. Walnuts impart their special taste to baked goods.

Ingredients

0.3 kg of dough;

0.13 kg of nuts;

30 g butter;

2-3 tablespoons of starch;

60 g sugar;

500 g apples.

Preparation

1. Immediately heat the oil in a skillet.

2. Cut the apples into small slices and put them in the pan. Add granulated sugar and cook for five minutes.

3. We sort out the walnuts, remove the debris, chop them into pieces. But not shallow. The kernels do not need to be turned into dust or flour.

4. Transfer nuts to apples, cook for a couple of minutes. If you want to get a brighter flavor, then you can fry them in another pan, and then combine them in the filling.

5. Roll out the layer, transfer it to a towel. You can use a sheet of parchment.

6. Sprinkle the dough with starch.

7. Lay out the apple filling with nuts in an even layer.

8. Roll up the roll, helping yourself with a towel.

9. Transfer to a baking sheet, pinch the edges of the product to keep all the filling and juices in it.

10. On top we make several cuts, then grease with oil and send to the oven. Cooking until golden brown. Take out and sprinkle with icing sugar.

Recipe 3: Puff Pastry Raw Apple Strudel

It turns out that for making puff pastry strudel with apples, it is not necessary to subject the filling to heat treatment. You can do it much easier and the process will go faster. Better to use soft and ripe apples. To bake such a product, you will need a piece of foil.

Ingredients

0.3 kg of puff pastry;

0.5 kg of apples;

Sugar and cinnamon to taste;

4 tablespoons of bread crumbs;

2 tablespoons of butter.

Preparation

1. For this recipe, the apples must be peeled and then cut into thin slices. The pieces can be large, but not thick. That's all the preparation of the filling!

2. Roll out the puff pastry into a layer, grease with one spoonful of butter.

3. Sprinkle with a layer of bread crumbs. They will absorb the juice escaping from the apples.

4. Sprinkle the filling with sugar and cinnamon on top.

5. Roll the strudel into a roll.

6. Lay a sheet of foil on a baking sheet and grease it with oil. We shift our roll. We place the seam at the bottom, the edges of the log can be pinched. We make 3 cross-cuts from the top, like a loaf.

7. Raise the edges of the foil on both sides and pinch together from above.

8. We put the strudel to bake. Cooking for 15 minutes at 190 degrees.

9. Grind the butter with a pinch of sugar.

10. Take out, open the foil and grease with a creamy mass on all sides. Now we add the temperature to 220 degrees and fry the strudel until tender. About 15 minutes more.

Recipe 4: Strudel with apples and puff pastry

Another recipe for puff pastry apple strudel. This time the taste is diluted with raisins. The technology for preparing the filling and shaping the product is also different.

Ingredients

250 grams of dough;

4 tablespoons of sugar;

4 tablespoons of crushed crackers;

100 grams of raisins;

1 yolk;

150 ml of water;

1 spoonful of flour.

Preparation

1. Roll out a layer of puff pastry in length and let it lie on the table to thaw well. In the meantime, we are preparing the filling.

2. Fill the raisins with warm water and leave to swell. Then we express the liquid well.

3. Cut peeled apples into small pieces, combine with swollen raisins, add cinnamon and sugar.

4. Beat the yolk with a fork.

5. Transfer the dough to a tea towel lightly dusted with flour.

6. Grease with whipped yolk, sprinkle with breadcrumbs.

7. Spread the apple filling with raisins on one half of the dough. Cover with a free part and pinch the edges tightly around the entire perimeter. You will get a rectangle. Now we roll it up with a roll.

8. Transfer to a baking sheet, make cuts, grease with the rest of the yolk and bake until tender.

Recipe 5: Strudel with apples and puff pastry zest

The recipe for a very fragrant strudel with citrus zest added to the filling. It can be lemon, orange, tangerine, or even a mixture of different peels. But the most fragrant is the product with lemon.

Ingredients

0.3 kg of dough;

0.4 kg of apples;

0.1 kg of nuts;

1 spoon of zest;

3 tablespoons sugar;

2 tablespoons of oil;

Preparation

1. Crush the nuts into pieces, put them in hot oil and fry for a minute.

2. Add the apples, zest and sugar, cut into cubes, and cook the filling for 10 minutes. We make a large fire so that the moisture evaporates. Cool it down.

3. Roll out the layer, lay the filling on it.

4. We form the product in the form of a roll or envelope. We send to a baking sheet.

5. Make several cuts on top.

6. Separate the white from the yolk. Beat the yolk and grease the product. We don't need protein.

7. Bake until tender. Cool and cut into transverse pieces.

Recipe 6: Puff Pastry Apple and Cherry Strudel

You can use both fresh and frozen cherries for the filling. But they must first be thawed and all the liquid drained, you can even squeeze the berries with your hands.

Ingredients

0.26 kg of dough;

3 apples;

1 glass of cherries;

4 tablespoons of sugar;

0.5 tsp cinnamon;

2 tablespoons of oil;

0.5 cups crushed sweet bread crumbs.

Preparation

1. Take the seeds out of the cherries, put them in a colander for now, let the excess juice drain.

2. Heat oil, add chopped apples and sugar, cook for two minutes.

3. Add cherries, cinnamon and simmer for about fifteen minutes. We look at the thickness of the filling. If the moisture evaporates earlier, then turn it off. Cool it down.

4. Roll out the layer, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, lay out the fruit filling.

5. Twist the product, transfer to a baking sheet.

6. Lubricate with oil, make three holes on top and bake.

Recipe 7: Strudel with apples and puff pastry

For this strudel, it is better to use a yeast dough. It turns out more tender and tasty with it.

Ingredients

0.5 kg of dough;

10 apples;

150 grams of raisins;

3 tablespoons of honey;

40 grams of sugar;

1 tsp cinnamon;

1 yolk;

2 tablespoons of brandy;

1 pinch of vanilla;

3 spoons of powder.

Preparation

1. Cut the apples into slices, but not small. Transfer to the pan and simmer.

2. After 5 minutes add sugar. Better to use reed.

3. Add the washed raisins, cinnamon and cognac. Simmer together until the fruit is soft. Any liqueur can be used instead of cognac.

4. Cool the filling until warm and add honey. It will melt, stir.

5. Roll out the dough with a layer of about 5 millimeters. We spread the filling in an even layer.

6. Roll up the roll. We straighten it with our hands and send it to a prepared baking sheet.

7. Grease with yolk and send to bake.

8. Cool, sprinkle with powder. You can mix it with cinnamon powder.

Puff Pastry Apple Strudel - Useful Tips and Tricks

If the strudel is prepared with raw apples, then do not sprinkle them with granulated sugar in advance. Otherwise, there will be a lot of juice and the dough will simply turn sour. Also, when forming a roll, you can sprinkle the layer of dough itself, and not the filling.

No apples or just a few of them? Strudel filling can be diluted with any fruit: plums, pears, quince and even exotic bananas. Delicious and bright baked goods are made with the addition of pumpkin.

Ground cloves, like cinnamon, go well with apples and enhance their taste. But for some reason she undeservedly remains on the sidelines. Maybe this needs to be fixed?

Instead of breadcrumbs and flour, you can sprinkle a layer of dough with crushed dry cookies, unsalted cracker. They will also absorb apple juice well and keep the dough from souring.

If nuts go into the strudel, then you can decorate it with them. To do this, before baking, the product is simply greased and covered with crushed kernels. It is only important that they are not fried, but raw. Otherwise they may burn out.

What to serve strudel with? Of course, it can be coffee, tea. But classic baked goods are usually accompanied by a scoop of ice cream.

Description

Apple strudel is a puff pastry stuffed with fresh apples, which we propose to prepare according to the classic Austrian recipe, but from ready-made dough. Having felt its aroma and incredible taste, you might think that the cake was prepared in one of the pastry shops in Europe. A puff pastry strudel will appeal to everyone, young and old. The appearance of this pie on the dinner table will create a sense of coziness and a warm, friendly atmosphere.

In addition, this type of baking is not only very tasty, but also healthy. Thanks to pectin, which is part of apples, a person can lower blood cholesterol levels, as well as strengthen the walls of blood vessels, which will prevent the development of atherosclerosis. The beneficial properties of apples are great enough, especially for digestion and improving the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract. Apples normalize the salt balance of the human body and slow down the aging process. The benefits of apples have been proven by scientists. The pulp of these fruits promotes the production of new cells and thus rejuvenates the body.

At the moment, there are a huge number of recipes for making this cake. The filling is considered classic for him not only with apples, but also with cherries, cottage cheese, nuts and poppy seeds. Back in 1814, nobody knew about this type of baking on the territory of Austria. However, at the Vienna Congress, during the celebration of the victory over France, it was Viennese pastries made of light puff pastry that flaunted on the tables instead of multi-tiered cakes with fatty cream. Then the idea was to serve apple strudel with a scoop of ice cream, a piece of fresh fruit and coffee.

If you have a desire to feel like a real Viennese pastry chef, we offer you a step-by-step recipe with a photo of making an apple strudel from ready-made puff pastry.

Ingredients

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Cooking steps

First, we take washed apples and cut them into small pieces.



Mix chopped fruits with cinnamon, two types of sugar and flour. We leave the apples for a while, so that the juice comes out of them.



In a separate container, mix the crackers with nuts and two types of sugar.





We twist the dough so that the filling is completely closed. We do the same with the second sheet of dough and the rest of the fillings.



Bend the sides of the rolls down and put them on a greased baking sheet. Cover the surface with a mixture of water and yolk.



We make cross-sections on both rolls.



We bake strudel in the oven at 200 degrees for about 45 minutes.



Serve cake with cream or ice cream.



Bon Appetit!

This is not only a wonderful dessert, but in some way a symbol of the country of Austria - the ingenious Viennese strudel with apples. The original recipe record is kept like the apple of an eye in the main Vienna City Library. The rest of the world has already tried this puff pastry apple strudel. Every gourmet in different parts of the world once tried to master this recipe.

Homeland of the dish

Moreover, many countries are trying to claim authorship of a dish that has been loved for many centuries. We will not say that, but will simply be glad that this Austrian-German puff roll has appeared next to our kurniks, pies and pie rolls. But still, let's try to cook a strudel. We will drink strong coffee, talk about the adventures of the jolly Schweik, criticize Freud, admire Waldmüller's paintings, from time to time straying to the tune of Strauss's "Vienna Waltz". It is the puff pastry apple strudel that can make our day so spiritual and airy. It contains the era and the beauty of tradition. What is a strudel if you descend from heaven to earth? It's just a very thin sheet of dough through which newspaper text can be read without interference. It is filled with apples, cinnamon, nuts and raisins soaked in alcohol. It would seem, what's so supernatural? Why is strudel with puff pastry apples a favorite among tourists who have come to Austria from all over the world? Because it's a tricky roll. Moreover, its preparation requires a lot of inspiration.

Puff pastry apple strudel

What we need to have

For the dough: two glasses of wheat flour, one egg, a quarter of a glass of vegetable oil, a tablespoon of wine vinegar, a glass of warm water, salt and additional flour for rolling out the dough.

For the filling, you need to take about a kilogram of apples, half a glass of raisins, half a glass of sugar, half a glass of sweet bread crumbs, half a glass of chopped almonds, lemon juice and zest, a little cinnamon, a little rum, half a glass of melted butter, half a glass of milk.

How do we do it

Mix flour, egg, oil, vinegar, water and salt, kneading very thoroughly for five minutes. The dough should be smooth, not hard, but not too soft either. It rolls freely into a ball and does not stick to anything. Place the dough in a glass bowl, brush with olive oil and cover with a towel. Put in a warm, even very warm place for half an hour or an hour, so that the flour disperses, and it rolls out obediently. Turn on the oven and heat it up to 190-200 degrees. Now let's prepare the filling: cut the apples into small cubes, pour boiling water over the raisins for five minutes, then immediately with rum, mix the apples, raisins, cinnamon, sugar, zest and lemon juice. You need to lightly crush the apples with your hands so that they absorb all these aromas.

Rolling

The hardest part begins: strudel with apples made from puff pastry is so bulky and shapeless in its raw state that without knowing some secrets it will not work normally to cook it. Let's be sculptors or even architects! Select the largest, cleanest towel to roll out. And even better - a tablecloth, it crawls around the table less. Spread out, flour and start rolling directly onto the tablecloth. Try to stick to the rectangular shape of the dough. Roll out thinly, but so that the dough has a "margin of safety". Not that under the weight of the filling, and even so uneven, it will tear when you roll it into a roll.

End of work and start of triumph

Grease the surface with olive oil, sprinkle with some nuts and breadcrumbs, as needed, and mix the rest with apples. Put the apples on top of the nuts so that the edges of the dough remain free. Now, lifting the tablecloth or towel, the roll must be rolled up. More accurate! The tablecloth turns out great, it just wouldn't work with your hands. Grease a baking sheet with oil. Using a tablecloth, transfer the apple strudel from the puff pastry to a baking sheet and place it seam down, folding the edges. The oven needs at least forty minutes. When it's cooked, do not touch it, let it stand on a baking sheet, settle slightly, cool down. Then sprinkle the puff pastry apple strudel with powdered sugar and cinnamon. Cut only completely cooled, but when serving it would be good to warm it up and serve with vanilla ice cream. Bon Appetit!