Tarte Tatin

Name: Tarte Tatin
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 170 grams 3/4 cup butter; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 2 Tbsps lemon juice; 510 grams pounds Golden Delicious apples (about each); 315 milliliters sugar; 2 teaspoons vanilla; 12 servings Vanilla ice cream, crème fraîche, or softly whipped cream

Tarte Tatin might be just the dessert you are searching for. One portion of this dish contains approximately 3g of protein, 13g of fat, and a total of 303 calories. This recipe serves 12. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up butter, sugar, lemon juice, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet.

Instructions

In a food processor or bowl, mix flour and 1/3 cup sugar until blended.

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All Purpose Flour

Sugar

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Food Processor

Bowl

Cut 1/2 cup butter into 1/2-inch chunks and add to flour mixture. Whirl or rub with your fingers until mixture forms fine crumbs.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

Dry Seasoning Rub

Mix 1 teaspoon vanilla with 1/4 cup cold water.

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Vanilla

Water

Add to flour mixture and whirl or stir with a fork just until evenly moistened. If mixture is too dry to hold together when pressed, gently mix in 1 more tablespoon water at a time. With your hands, press dough into a ball.

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Dough

All Purpose Flour

Water

Place between two sheets of plastic wrap (each 15 by 15 in.) and roll into an even 1/4-inch-thick round. Chill until firm, about 30 minutes, or up to 1 day.

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Roll

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Meanwhile, rinse and peel apples; quarter lengthwise and cut out and discard cores.

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Apple

Cut quarters in half lengthwise; you should have 8 cups.

Combine remaining 1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and lemon juice in a 10- to 11-inch (across the top) ovenproof frying pan (2 1/2- to 3-qt. capacity); set over high heat and stir often until mixture is blended and bubbly, 1 to 2 minutes.

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Lemon Juice

Vanilla

Butter

Sugar

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Frying Pan

Remove from heat.

Arrange a single layer of apples, rounded side down, in a circle around edge of pan, then fill in center to cover bottom; fit remaining apples evenly over the top. Cook over medium-high heat, gently shaking pan occasionally (do not stir), until sugar mixture turns deep gold (juices should bubble up through slices; if they bubble out of pan, reduce heat slightly), 25 to 35 minutes.

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Apple

Sugar

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Frying Pan

Peel one piece of plastic wrap from pastry and invert pastry over apple mixture in pan; peel off remaining plastic wrap. Trim off excess pastry flush with pan rim.

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Apple

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Frying Pan

Cut 1-inch slits through pastry in 10 to 12 places to let steam escape. Set pan in an 11- by 17-inch baking pan.

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Baking Pan

Bake in the middle of a 375 regular or convection oven until crust is golden brown and juices are bubbling, 35 to 45 minutes.

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Crust

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Oven

Let cool 5 to 10 minutes.

Invert a serving plate over tarte; holding pan and plate together, invert again. Lift off pan and fit any apples that are stuck to pan back onto dessert.

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Apple

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Frying Pan

Cut tarte into wedges and serve hot or warm with vanilla ice cream.

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Vanilla Ice Cream