Recipe for Apfelstrudel
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Recipe for Apfelstrudel
Description
This Apfelstrudel recipe starts with preparing the filling by combining grated apples tossed with lemon juice, sugar, cinnamon, breadcrumbs, nuts, and dried fruit. The filling is placed on a rolled out puff pastry sheet with cut strips along the edges. These strips are folded over the filling in a braided pattern to enclose it. An egg wash is brushed on the pastry to promote browning.
When baked at a high temperature, the pastry crisps to a golden brown while the apple mixture softens inside, releasing its fragrant cinnamon and lemon notes. Toasting or chopping nuts beforehand improves texture and flavor integration. Cooling slightly before dusting with powdered sugar adds a decorative and slightly sweet finish.
Apfelstrudel can be served warm or room temperature, as a dessert or special snack. The combination of tender, juicy apple filling inside flaky, buttery pastry creates a satisfying, textured treat with layered sweetness and spice.
Ingredients
- 1 lb apple about 3 large apples
- 1 heet puff pastry Pepperidge Farm
- 5 oz breadcrumbs
- 2 oz nuts
- 2 oz dried fruit
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Toast or chop nuts if they are raw or whole .
- Put all dry ingredients in one bowl.
- Lay out pastry sheet onto a baking tray lined with a silpat mat. Roll the pastry with a rolling pin to stretch it and remove the fold creases.
- Cut strips of about 1/2 inch (1 cm) on both sides of the puff pastry.
- Crack the egg into a bowl and whisk to make egg wash.
- Put lemon juice into a bowl.
- Peel and core apples. Using a hand grater or food processor, grate the apples.
- Add apples to lemon juice and mix.
- Add apple mixture to the bowl with dry ingredients in it and mix.
- Spoon apple mixture onto the center part of the pastry. Even it out. Then bring the strips of pastry over the apple mixture from one side to the other. Continue to make a braid of the puff pastry, crossing the strips over each other.
- Brush with egg wash.
- Put the Apfelstrudel in the oven until golden brown about 35 minutes.
- Allow to cool and dust with icing sugar before serving.
Nutrition Information
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Serving: 6Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 452 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 5oz | |
| Calories | 452kcal | 23% |
| Carbohydrates | 63g | 21% |
| Protein | 8g | 16% |
| Fat | 22g | 34% |
| Saturated Fat | 5g | 25% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 3g | 18% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 12g | 60% |
| Trans Fat | 0.003g | 0% |
| Cholesterol | 27mg | 9% |
| Sodium | 243mg | 10% |
| Potassium | 249mg | 5% |
| Fiber | 7g | 28% |
| Sugar | 20g | 40% |
| Vitamin A | 84IU | 2% |
| Vitamin C | 9mg | 10% |
| Calcium | 43mg | 4% |
| Iron | 4mg | 22% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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