Tarte tatin with apples - classic French pie

Step-by-step cooking

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:

   

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

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:

   

   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:

   

   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:

   

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

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.

9. Step 8:

   

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

10. 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.

11. Step 10:

    

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

12. Step 11:

    

    Pour the caramel into a greased baking dish.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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!