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Apple strudel with laminated dough

Traditional apple strudel with paper-thin dough and Val Venosta apples

This apple strudel prepared with a fine, hand-pulled dough and juicy Val Venosta apples is a classic of South Tyrolean cuisine. Nathalie Trafoier from the Kuppelrain restaurant in Castelbello gives a special refinement to this traditional recipe. A perfect dessert that brings the taste of home and tradition to the plate.
128 min.
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Ingredients

For 1 baking tray (28 x 30 cm)

Laminated dough
100 g wheat flour
20 g sunflower oil
1 pinch of salt
50 g lukewarm water

Crumbs
25 g butter
100 g ground sponge cake leftovers or breadcrumbs

Filling
Approx. 500 g acidulous apples from Val Venosta
50 g walnuts or pine nuts
30 g raisins
20 g rum
Some cinnamon
Some vanilla pulp
1 untreated organic lemon (zest and juice)
25 g sugar

Completion
About 100 g of melted butter
Powdered sugar
 
 
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Preparation

Laminated dough
Knead wheat flour with sunflower oil, salt and water in the food processor with the flex edge beater for about 5 minutes until the dough is no longer sticky. Shape the dough into a ball and place in a bowl. Brush the surface with sunflower oil and cover with cling film. Let rest at room temperature for about 1 hour.
Roll out the dough very thinly on a clean kitchen towel with a little flour. Reach under the dough with both hands and pull the dough apart (very thinly) so that you can almost see through it. (Please note: Pull carefully so that the dough does not tear!).

Crumbs
Melt the butter in a pan, brown the sponge cake crumbs and let cool (If you use breadcrumbs instead of sponge cake crumbs, you have to add sugar, cinnamon and lemon.

Filling
Wash, peel and halve the apples, remove the core and cut into very thin wedges. Place the apple slices in a bowl. Coarsely chop the walnuts or pine nuts and add them to the apples together with raisins, rum, cinnamon, vanilla, lemon zest and juice. (If you want, you can soak the raisins in the rum overnight.) Add sugar and crumbs to taste. (If you use breadcrumbs, you need a little more sugar than for sponge cake crumbs.) Mix well.


Completion
Brush the dough with melted butter and sprinkle with some of the crumbs. Distribute the filling over a little more than a third of the dough, fold the outer sides of the dough inwards so that the filling cannot fall out. Carefully lift and roll up the strudel with the help of the kitchen towel. Twist in the ends and place them under the strudel.

Place the strudel on a baking tray lined with baking paper and brush again with melted butter. Bake in the oven for 28 minutes at 175°C (convection oven). Remove the strudel from the oven, let cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
 

Recipe from Nathalie Trafoier

Kuppelrain
Patisserie is female and nobody embodies it better than Nathalie Trafoier. Being the daughter of Michelin star chef Jörg Trafoier and Sonya Egger, Nathalie is responsible for desserts and patisserie at their finest at the Kuppelrain restaurant in Castelbello, Val Venosta. Diligence, passion, love of experimentation and commitment take shape every day and become delicious goodies that are a feast for both the palate and the eyes: pralines and sweets of chocolate, biscuits and typical krapfen filled with fruit and other products from Val Venosta, mini-tarts, spoon desserts, cookies and much more.
 
 

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