Welcome to how to cook that I am Ann Reardon
There have been lots of requests for an easy dessert recipe so this week I am going to
show you how to make three quick and easy apple desserts.
Firstly the apple pie with a great shortcrust pastry which is probably the most complicated
out of all of them even though it is still a simple dessert followed by super quick apple
turnovers which are great if you've got lots of people coming over at the last minute and
then finally a gluten free apple crumble recipe.
To start with for all three desserts we need to turn on the oven and then prepare the apples.
You can either use tinned pie apple which has nothing but apple in it and a tiny bit
of salt or you can use fresh apple.
If going with fresh then you need to wash them and peel them.
There is not right or wrong way to peel an apple just as long as you get all the peel
off that's fine.
Once they are peeled core them and slice them.
I have this really handy apple cutter which I like to use for this job it cores and slices
them all in one time which speeds up the process.
You can of course slice them using a knife and then cut the core part off each piece.
Place the apple slices into a saucepan with a tablespoon of water then put the lid on
and cook over medium high heat for about 5 minutes until it is hot and bubbling then
you can turn the heat off and leave the lid on and just leave it to sit there while you
get you pastry ready.
To make our pastry for the pie you will need butter flour sugar and one egg and a little
bit of milk.
All of the recipe quantities are written on the website howtocookthat.net there is a link
to the recipe in the description just below this video.
Put your flour and your butter into a bowl and then use a knife to slice the butter into
smaller pieces.
Then rub the butter into the flour using your fingertips.
So you are basically just squashing it between your thumb and your fingers and rubbing as
you go.
But making sure you get some flour in there when you are doing it you don't just want
to be squashing the butter you want to be squashing it into the flour.
Continue to do that for a few minutes until your mixture looks like this, there should
be no big lumps of butter in there anywhere it should look like fine breadcrumbs.
Add your sugar and mix it through well.
In a seperate bowl put a little milk and your egg and whisk them together with a fork.
Then pour it into the flour mixture and stir it with a spoon until it is roughly together
and then use your hands to squash it together more and knead it until you have a smooth
ball of pastry.
At this point you should wrap your pastry and put it in the fridge and leave it to rest
for half an hour and that makes it easier to roll out, but because we are doing quick
desserts we are going to go ahead and roll it straight away.
Put it on some baking paper on your bench top and roll out your pastry until it is reasonably
thin and big enough to cover the whole base of your pie dish plus a bit more because we've
got our pastry for the lid there as well.
Then pick up your pastry and flip it over on the paper and then carefully place it over
the dish.
Peel off the baking paper and then going around the edges lift and lower the pastry, pushing
it into the corners and making sure there is no air bubbles trapped underneath your
pastry.
Then using a knife trim off the excess making sure your knife is leaning backwards so that
the pastry is still over the rim of the dish so there is something for our lid to join
onto.
Add you apples ,
Add you apples, I make my pies nice and full, these apples will drop down a bit when they
cook so if you start with a pie that has apples that are flat then you will have a sunken
top once it is baked in the oven.
Sprinkle a little sugar and cinnamon on top.
If you like you pie really sweet then you can add more sugar and cinnamon to your apples
before you put them in the pie and mix it through but because the pastry for this pie
has some sugar in it I don't think the filling needs to be really sweet.
Roll out the rest of your pastry and check that it is big enough by holding the dish
over the top of the pastry.
Flip the pastry over and peel off the baking paper just like we did before.
Then using a knife to cut off the excess pastry again leaning the knife outwards so you are
leaving some pastry on the rim of the dish.
You can leave it plain just like that or use your thumb and your finger to pinch a pattern
all the way around the edge of your pie.
Take your knife and stab the top of the pie a few times so there is space for the steam
to escape.
This stops you from getting a huge air bubble at the top of your pie.
Place it in the oven and let it bake until it is crisp, golden brown and ready to eat.
This will take about 30 minutes.
And you have a beautiful pie stuffed full or apples.
Dessert number 2 is super quick apple turnovers.
Using some store bought puff pastry sheets and tinned apple add some cinnamon and sugar
to the apple and stir through.
Now this puff pastry that I am using is not sweet and that is why we are sweetening the
apples to compensate for that.
Cut your pastry sheet into quarters cutting diagonally across the middle.
Spoon on some your apple and then fold the pastry in half pressing on the edges to seal
it shut.
From last weeks video there was a lot of requests for me to do a draw my life in video, for
those of you who are new to how to cook that there is a draw my life in chocolate video
on the channel so if you go to how to cook that click on how to cook that and go to the
chocolate playlist you'll find it there.
Place your apple turnovers onto a baking tray and then take a fork and press down along
the two joined edges to fuse the two pastry sheets together.
Bake them in the oven until they are hot and your puff pastry is crispy and golden.
Serve them immediately and you can add ice cream or whipped cream or custard to those.
If you've got a favourite dessert recipe that you like to make when people are coming over
and it's a last minute thing put the name of it in the comments below so everyone can
get heaps of ideas of what else they can do when they are in a hurry.
For our third dessert we are going to make a gluten free apple crumble.
Use some almond meal or almond flour and rub some butter into the almond meal.
You could use gluten free flour but I just find in the crumble dessert it's a bit pasty
on the top of your mouth when you eat it so I like to use almond meal in the crumble instead.
Now gluten is just the protein in wheat and people who have coeliac disease or gluten
intolerance can't have any gluten in their diet so they cant have any wheat at all so
we are making this one gluten free.
If you do not need it to be to be gluten free then you can use all purpose flour for this
recipe instead.
Mix in your sugar.
Then spoon some apple into your bowl,you can make one large crumble or you can use smaller
bowls and make individual serves.
Top with a generous sprinkle of crumble mixture.
Bake until the apple is hot and the crumble is golden and crunchy.
Add some ice cream or some whipped cream and enjoy.
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