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Apple strudel
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dessert vegetarian

Apple strudel

Apfelstrudel

Paper-thin, hand-stretched pastry rolled around apples with cinnamon, raisins and buttery toasted breadcrumbs.

Eaten in: Austria

Prep
50 min
Cooking
40 min
Resting
1 h
Total
2 h 30 min
Servings
8

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About the dish

Apfelstrudel is one of the symbols of Austrian cooking and a fixture of the Viennese café menu. An elastic dough of flour, water and oil is stretched over a cloth until it is thin enough to read a newspaper through, then rolled around slices of tart apple mixed with sugar, cinnamon, raisins and breadcrumbs toasted in butter. Once baked, the strudel has a crisp, flaky crust and a juicy filling. It is served warm, dusted with icing sugar, with whipped cream, vanilla sauce or ice cream. Similar strudels are baked across the former Habsburg lands, including Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovenia.

Main ingredients

  • wheat flour
  • apples
  • butter
  • breadcrumbs
  • sugar
  • cinnamon
  • raisins

More: Wikipedia (en)

Recipe

Apple strudel

https://foodmap.ominuvo.com/dish/apple-strudel

Ingredients

8 servings

8 servings

Method

  1. Knead the flour, water, oil and salt into a very smooth, elastic dough (about 10 minutes). Shape into a ball, brush with oil, cover with a bowl and leave somewhere warm for an hour.

  2. Peel and core the apples and slice them thinly. Mix with the sugar, cinnamon, raisins and lemon juice.

  3. Toast the breadcrumbs in 40 g of the butter until golden. Melt the remaining butter.

  4. Spread a floured cloth over a table. Roll out the dough, then stretch it over the backs of your hands from the centre outwards until almost transparent and about 60 × 80 cm. Trim off the thick edges.

  5. Brush the dough with melted butter, scatter the breadcrumbs over one third and the apples on top. Lifting the cloth, roll the strudel up and tuck in the ends.

  6. Slide the strudel onto a lined baking tray, curving it into a horseshoe if long, and brush with butter. Bake at 190°C for 35–40 minutes, brushing with butter halfway through.

  7. Cool slightly, dust with icing sugar and serve warm with whipped cream or vanilla sauce.

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