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Apple strudel

25 minutes

Apple strudel

Serves 6 - 8

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cooking Time 25 minutes

Ingredients

5 apples, peeled and sliced
100 g caster sugar
2 T ground cinnamon
40 g raisins, marinated in rum for a few hours (optional)
100 g walnuts, chopped
1 lemon, juiced
400 g ready-made puff pastry
cake flour, to dust
50 g breadcrumbs
1 free-range egg, beaten
icing sugar, to dust

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C.

In a mixing bowl, combine the sliced apples, caster sugar, cinnamon, raisins (if using) and walnuts. Addlemon juice to taste.

Roll out the puff pastry on a floured surface. Cover the middle third of the pastry with breadcrumbs and top with the apple mixture.

Fold one side of the pastry onto the apples and brush with a little beaten egg, then fold over the other side to seal the parcel.

Transfer the strudel to a shallow baking tray lined with baking paper. Brush it with the remaining egg and bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until golden.

Serve dusted with icing sugar.

TASTE's Take

This recipe was created by Czech-born Jakub Vanek who, with his wife Andrea, are at the helm of popular Capetonian eatery Lunchworks.

Read our story on Prague, capital of the Czech Republic, and Jakub's favourite places to eat when there.

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Apple strudel

Apple strudel

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