A light and delicious tea delicacy. TOP 6 recipes for puff pastry apple strudel. What secrets are hidden in the preparation of this dish?
Strudel with apples and cinnamon
This strudel version does not use nuts or raisins, but cinnamon is indispensable.
Ingredients:
- Yeast-free puff pastry - 250 g (half of 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:
- Defrost the dough. Transfer a piece of dough from the freezer to the refrigerator overnight, or defrost it at room temperature for 3 hours.
- Wash the apples, peel them off and core them with seeds.
- Cut the apples into thin slices.
- Then put the pan on the fire and melt a piece of butter on it.
- Then pour one tablespoon of the melted butter aside for later use on the surface of the strudel.
- Put apples, sugar and cinnamon in the butter left in the pan.
- Simmer apples over moderate heat and stir constantly.
- When all the liquid has evaporated from the pan, the filling can be put on a plate and cooled.
- Sprinkle flour on 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.
- 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.
- Cover it with one side of the layer first, and then the other.
- Flip the strudel upside down and make several cuts on its surface.
- Transfer the roll to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Lubricate the surface of the strudel with the remaining butter, which we previously poured into a separate container.
- Sprinkle with sugar on top.
- Then send it to bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 40 minutes.
- 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
Step-by-step preparation of apple strudel with raisins:
- Defrost the puff pastry.
- Rinse the raisins in boiling water, and then leave them to steam in hot water for 15 minutes.
- Wash the apples, peel the stalk and seeds and cut into thin slices.
- Now melt the butter in a hot skillet and transfer the apples to it.
- Simmer them for 15-25 minutes, until almost all the liquid has evaporated.
- After that, pour sugar into the apples and simmer for another 5 minutes. Remember to stir them constantly.
- Now pour the cinnamon into the apples, stir the filling and set aside in a separate bowl to cool.
- Roll out the dough into an elongated rectangle and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
- Then scatter the dough and raisins over the layer. When distributing the filling, step back about 5 cm from the edge.
- Now place stewed cooled apples on crackers and raisins.
- Then roll up the roll, starting at the edge with the filling.
- Having rolled up the roll, fix its top layer, which is without filling, and move it to a baking sheet covered with parchment.
- Next, coat the roll with a beaten egg.
- Sprinkle the strudel with granulated sugar or powdered sugar.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Transfer the roll to the oven for 40 minutes.
- 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 the unusual way of rolling the roll, as well as 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:
- Defrost the puff pastry by transferring it from the freezer to the refrigerator overnight.
- Wash the apples and remove the seeds and core. The peel can be left on if it is thin.
- Cut each apple into 4 pieces and then cut into small cubes.
- Now put the saucepan on the fire, pour in some water, add chopped apples and granulated sugar.
- Next, add baking seasoning to the apples.
- Simmer them over moderate heat for about 10 minutes to halve the contents of the saucepan.
- Bring the apples to such a state that they are caramelized in sugar, then you can turn off the heat.
- Roll out the dough into an elongated layer and cut one edge of it into strips, but not completely.
- Place bread crumbs on the edge that is not cut.
- Then place the apple filling on the crackers. Make sure that it recedes by 3-4 cm from the side edges.
- Now cover the sides of the filling with the dough, and then roll up the roll. You should have a notched edge on top.
- Next, place a sheet of baking paper on a baking sheet, and put your roll on top.
- Lubricate the surface with a beaten quail egg.
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees in advance.
- Place the roll in the oven for 30 minutes.
- Cut the slightly cooled strudel into pieces and sprinkle with powdered sugar on top. Bon Appetit!
A lighter version of making apple strudel
In this recipe, neither nuts, nor raisins, nor butter are used, 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:
- Defrost the puff pastry at room temperature for several hours. This usually takes about 4 hours.
- Wash the apples and separate the center with seeds from them.
- Cut them into thin pieces.
- In a clean bowl, combine chopped apples, granulated sugar and cinnamon.
- Then roll out the dough into a thin layer, its thickness should be only a couple of millimeters.
- If the dough sticks to the rolling pin, treat both the layer and the rolling pin with flour.
- Place the filling on the bottom edge of the puff pastry, about 5 cm away from the edge.
- Put the edge of the dough on top of the filling, as well as the sides of the layer.
- Roll the filled dough into a roll.
- Now move it to a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Wrap the stuffed roll in a bagel.
- Heat the oven and send the roll into it.
- Bake the strudel for about 30-35 minutes until a brownish crust forms.
- Remove the finished strudel from the oven, wait until it cools slightly, and cut it into pieces.
- 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:
- Defrost the dough first.
- Then pour boiling water over the raisins and soak them in cold water.
- Peel apples, stalks and all hard parts. Cut them into thin, small pieces.
- Break the nuts into small pieces.
- Roll out the dough into a thin layer. This is best done on some kind of thin kitchen towel.
- In a bowl, combine apples, soaked raisins, granulated sugar, and crushed nuts.
- Brush the puff pastry with melted butter. Just do not touch the edges, leave them sticky to fix the roll later.
- Now crush the breadcrumbs into one part of the layer.
- Place the filling on top of them.
- Now, helping yourself with a towel, roll up the roll.
- Pinch the side edges of the roll so that the filling does not run away.
- Set the oven to heat up to 180 degrees.
- Place a sheet of parchment paper on a baking sheet.
- Place the roll on the parchment.
- Beat the egg and brush over the roll.
- 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.
For those with a sweet tooth, we advise you to eat apple strudel with ice cream, it turns out to be unusually tasty. Serve this treat with a simple vanilla ice cream or strawberry or raspberry ice cream.
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 your loved ones more often with delicious and aromatic pastries, accompanied by pleasant conversations.
