apple tarte tatin on a gold plate
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PINK LADY APPLE TARTE TATIN

Author Dimitra

Ingredients

  • 6 pink lady apples
  • Juice of 1 lemon
  • 80 g butter
  • 125 g sugar
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 125 g water
  • Enough butter to butter your pan/dish
  • 1 sheet of ready rolled puff pastry or enough puff pastry to cover your pan

Equipment

  • Peeler
  • Corer
  • Knife
  • Bowl
  • Pan
  • Spoon
  • Grease proof paper
  • Oven proof pan or dish here is the one I used
  • Serving plate - bigger than your pan and either completely flat or with raised edges

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 180'
  • Peel and core your apples then slice them down the middle
  • Put your apples in a bowl and squeeze over your lemon juice so they don't brown
  • In your pan add your butter and sugar and heat until your butter has melted
  • Add your cinnamon and leave everything to simmer until it is a nice amber colour. Every now and then swirl your pan to see the colour underneath the bubbles and when it is a deep dark amber colour add your water to stop it cooking. Be careful because it will steam and bubble up
  • When all the bubbling has stopped add your apples and cover with some grease proof paper/cartouche and leave them to simmer for 5 minutes, then flip them over and simmer for another 5 minutes
  • Butter your dish then add your apples curved side down and your caramel
  • Place your puff pastry over your apples and add a few slits to let the air out when it's cooking
  • Put your tarte tatin in the oven for 30 minutes
  • Let your tarte tatin cool for 5 minutes
  • Place your serving plate over your tarte tatin
  • Wearing oven gloves put one hand under your tarte tatin and the other on top of your serving plate and In one quick motion flip over your dish (watch the video below to see how to do this safely)
  • Carefully take off your dish and reveal your sweet smelling pink apple tarte tatin

Notes

Remember to place your apples curved side down so when you flip your dish over your apples are curved side up
Make sure your serving plate is bigger than the pan you cook your tarte tatin in and it is either completely flat or has raised edges