Hello folks it is barry here welcome to my virgin kitchen today is our third video in
apple month we have already had those awesome rose apple pies gorgeous and of course the
apple cider chicken super zingy todays recipe I have not actually named it yet but you will
see it on the screen it could be an apple strudel strudel is one of my most favourite
words either way it is going to look gorgeous and I really hope that you give it a go hit
pause on the video now write down these ingredients they are also on my website and the description
box down below I just want to show you these are apples that have been peeled and cored
and sliced and sat in lemon water to prevent them discolouring we did that on the other
video the rose one just to show you a cool little tip this water that is left in there
is really nice but if you chuck in a blender with the lemons in it and some sugar it makes
awesome lemonade.
First thing we are going to do is add into a bowl our brown sugar, now this is mixed
spice I am not using cinnamon today 2 teaspoons of mixed spice cinnamon probably more popular
with apples and these are some raisins so just dumping that in there, this one jumped
out so I get to eat that one.
Yeah so nothing too crazy just a mix around to get the sugar spice and all things nice
incorporated together.
Alright so I am now putting that sugar mixture to one side and now have some sheets of filo
pastry this is wafer thin stuff you could use puff pastry if you like but but I like
this stuff, thin hmmm.
All I am doing is painting melted butter onto a sheet of filo pastry it is not sat on the
chopping board because it is quite a wide sheet so this tea towel works a charm.
Now getting the sugar spice coating and doing a coating of that that is looking good so
all I am going to do is make the bed so to speak and drape another sheet of filo pastry
on top then basically repeat those steps again so painting some more butter on and repeat
the sugar again I am actually going to do that another time too so should have three
layers of sugar raisin goodness.
So we have the three layers there so we are topping it with one final fourth sheet, bare
in mind you do need to work quite fast otherwise these sheets do dry out quite quickly so if
you are doing it slowly just keep in the fridge or on a damp tea towel something like that
in between so this is looking good I am happy, next step these are the apples here and I
have drained them off all we do is run the apples in one line straight down quite near
one edge ok so about an inch wide.
It is so important that they are drained off just like the rose apple pies because if the
pastry gets too wet it will not work and just go plop that is my best way of describing
it so all I have here is a sprinkle of sugar get that all up and down I just missed that
but boston just came out of his bed to inspect what was going on and has now safely returned
all I am doing now is a little bit of melted butter on this far edge and we get to do a
crazy rolling thing now and we can use the tea towel to help us bring up our strudel
to a certain point like so kind of like making a swiss roll then grip it kind of like a swiss
roll and keep rolling through until we use that bottom edge of butter to seal it down.
Here we go our apple strudel is ready this is the largest baking sheet I have and have
had to make a kink in our strudel does not matter will put it in the pre heated oven
now it is going in there for twenty minutes the temperatures are on the screen right now
we just need to make another icing topping while we are waiting.
So the icing topping is simple just putting together some icing sugar aka confectioner
sugar some water just a little bit at a time and also some lemon if you have half of that
left over from earlier some of that squeezed in there, mix it through until we have a nice
dribbly paste.
Ah strudel tastic I am loving that word strudel strudel strudel crispy all done 20 minutes
that was caramelised right down here with all that sugar there so will let it cool then
halve it and we will finish it off.
Alright so placing it down still nice and warm oh my, a real good coating of icing sugar
using my noisy sieve loving that, some toffee sauce up and down it oh yes why not go back
down the other way too.
Strudel tastic I love that word.
Handful of toasted almonds too oh strudel why are you doing this to me.
And then a little drizzle of that icing we made earlier so that is going to thicken and
set on top of there white on white action on there too oh my gosh.
Oh my so I guess we just slice it oh wow I am going for this massive piece check that
out you are going in my mouth.
That is so warming and gorgeous and packed what do you want, smelling my face do you
approve, guys it is so good I really hope you try that recipe really autumnal spicy
warming and that sweet lemon kick on the icing too give it a go send me a picture if you
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