Tarte tatin with apples - classic French pie

Beautiful, original, melts in your mouth, a holiday every day! Tarte tatin with apples is a classic French pie that is baked the other way around: shortbread dough on top, and caramel fruits on the bottom. The finished tart is turned over on the dish, and the filling turns out to be on the dough, like a regular pie.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the recipe composition
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 7 % 3 g
Fats 19 % 8 g
Carbohydrates 74 % 32 g
215 kcal
GI: 16 / 0 / 84

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make tarte tatin? Start cooking with the dough. Prepare the products for him. How to make dough? Take high-quality butter corresponding to GOST, the higher its fat content, the better. Take it out of the refrigerator in advance so that it softens.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Take a bowl of suitable size, sift flour into it, add salt. Make a recess in the center of the flour.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Beat an egg into it, add sugar. Cut the butter into small cubes. Put the pieces of butter in a bowl with other products.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Gradually adding water, knead the elastic dough. See the amount of water according to the condition of the test. It may take a little more or less. Assemble the dough into a ball, wrap it in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Roll out the cooled dough into a circle, the same diameter as the baking dish. For convenience, you can roll out the dough on a round cutting board with a diameter equal to the diameter of the baking dish.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Cover the rolled dough with cling film and send it back to the refrigerator.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Meanwhile, do the stuffing. Prepare the products for her. How to make the filling? Choose ripe, fragrant, firm apples. Butter, as well as for the dough, is of high quality, GOST. You can use cane sugar, it will give the filling a piquant note.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Put butter in a saucepan, pour in water and add sugar. Heat over medium heat until light amber caramel forms.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    It is not necessary to mix the mass with a spatula, otherwise the caramel will gather in a lump around the spatula. Just shake the saucepan.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Peel the apples. Cut in half and remove the seeds. Then cut the apples into slices.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Pour the caramel into a greased baking dish.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Place the apple slices on top of the caramel. There should be a lot of apples, since when baking they will decrease slightly in size. Put them on top of each other, with overlap, in a circle.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Cover the apples with dough. Turn the edges of the dough inward so that mini-bumpers form when turning over. In the center of the dough, make a small incision to release steam. Bake the tarte tatin for about 30 minutes in a preheated 180 ° C oven. The dough should be evenly gilded.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    Turn the finished tart onto a dish so that the apples are on top and the dough is at the bottom. Cut the tarte tatin into portions. Serve the pie in any form — it is good and warm, with a scoop of ice cream, and cold, with hot coffee. Enjoy your meal!

We owe the recipe for this simple pie to sisters Caroline and Stephanie Tatin, owners of a small hotel in the provincial town of Lamotte-Bevron. Stephanie was a chef and an open apple and caramel pie was her signature dessert.
Like many great recipes, this pie appeared by mistake. One day at the height of the season, warming up the filling for a pie, a woman felt a burnt aroma. She quickly covered the filling with dough and baked it in this form. She turned the pie over after removing it from the oven. Everyone liked this pie so much that one day it became known to the metropolitan restaurateur Louis Vaudable, who included dessert in the menu of his own restaurant. So the pie gradually began to conquer the whole world.

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !

Any heat-resistant form is suitable for this recipe. If you use a silicone mold, then you do not need to smear it with butter or margarine. But it is better to lightly lubricate metal, ceramic or glass dishes with vegetable oil so that the baking does not burn.

Be sure to wash the eggs before use, as even the seemingly clean shell may contain harmful bacteria. It is best to use food detergents and a brush.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Chicken egg - 157   kcal/100g
  • Egg white - 45   kcal/100g
  • Egg powder - 542   kcal/100g
  • Egg yolk - 352   kcal/100g
  • Ostrich egg - 118   kcal/100g
  • Apples - 47   kcal/100g
  • Dried apples - 210   kcal/100g
  • Canned apple mousse - 61   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g

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