Tarte Tatin

Name: Tarte Tatin
Prep time: 2 h 55 min
Cook time: 2 h 55 min
Total time: 2 h 55 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 6 Tbsps chilled butter, diced; 59 milliliters cake flour; 177 milliliters flour; 59 milliliters ice water, or as needed; 1 lemon, zested and juiced; 6 Golden Delicious apples, cored, peeled and halved; 2 Tbsps sugar; 1 liters sugar; 6 Tbsps unsalted butter; 6 servings Whipped cream or vanilla ice cream, as accompaniment; 2 Tbsps chilled vegetable shortening

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Tarte Tatin a try. One serving contains 1271 calories, 5g of protein, and 35g of fat. This recipe serves 6. This recipe covers 9% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 2 hours and 55 minutes. Head to the store and pick up vegetable shortening, vanillan ice cream, golden tasty apples, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

In the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade, place the flours, sugar and butter. Pulse 5 or 6 times in 1/2-second bursts to break up the butter.

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Add the shortening, turn on the machine and immediately add the ice water, pulsing 2 or 3 times. The dough should look like a mass of smallish lumps and should just hold together in a mass when a handful is pressed together. If the mixture is too dry, pulse in more water by droplets.

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Shortening

Water

Dough

Turn the dough out onto the work surface and with the heel of your hand, rapidly and roughly push egg-size blobs into a 6-inch smear. Gather the dough into a relatively smooth cake, wrap in plastic and refrigerate at least 2 hours (or up to 2 days).

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Slice the halved apples into 4 lengthwise wedges each, and toss in a large bowl with the lemon juice and zest and 1/2 cup sugar.

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Lemon Juice

Apple

Sugar

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Drain the apples after macerating 20 minutes.

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Apple

In a 9-inch skillet melt the butter over high heat. Stir in the remaining sugar and cook until the syrup bubbles and caramelizes, and turns a brown color.

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Butter

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Remove the pan from the heat and arrange a layer of apple slices in a neat pattern on the caramel in the skillet, then arrange the remaining apples neatly on top.

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Caramel

Apple

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Return the pan to moderately high heat and cook for about 25 minutes, covering the pan after 10 minutes. Every few minutes press down on the apples and baste them with the exuded juices. When the juices are thick and syrupy, remove the pan from the heat.

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Apple

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On a lightly floured surface, roll the chilled dough into a circle, 3/16-inch thick and 1-inch larger than the top of the pan. Drape the dough over the apples, pressing the edge of the dough between the apples and the inside of the pan.

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