French Market Recipe 2024 22
Tarte aux pommes et Calvados
Apple tart with Calvados
Ingredients for Pastry: (or buy readymade shortcrust)
- 225g flour
- 1 egg
- 100g butter unsalted
- 3 tablespoons cold water
Ingredients for Tart filling
- 1.4 kgs apples
- 40g butter
- 115g sugar
- 150 ml white wine
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
- 1 tablespoon Calvados from the French Market shop
- 1 jar apricot jam from French Market shop
Directions to make pastry
- Leave butter for pastry out of fridge to soften.
- Break egg into a cup and mix egg with a fork.
- Sift flour into mixing bowl.
- Make a well in centre of the flour
- Add the softened butter, egg then cold water to flour and mix together to form a dough ball.
- Place in fridge for a couple of hours to rest
Directions Tart filling
- Peel half the apples, quarter and remove cores.
- Melt butter in a large saucepan and add the apple quarters, half the sugar, wine, lemon zest and cinnamon.
- Simmer without a lid until soft.
- Remove from heat and spoon into a mixing bowl, allow to cool.
- Add 1 tablespoon Calvados and blend into a smooth puree.
- Preheat oven to 200C.
- Grease a tart baking pan. (I use one with a removable base as its easier to take out the tart after cooking).
- Roll out the pastry into a round to fit the base and sides of the tart pan
- Prick the pastry base all over with a fork, place in fridge.
- Peel, core and slice the rest of the apples thinly in half rings.
- Fill the tart base to 2/3rds with the apple puree
- Arrange the apple slices in concentric rings across the top overlapping slightly. Reversing the direction with each ring.
- Cover top of tart with some greaseproof paper.
- Bake for 30 – 35 minutes. Check apples don’t burn.
- Remove tart from the oven when cooked
- Carefully heat some apricot jam
- Use a pastry brush to paint melted jam across the top of the tart and the pastry edges.
- Allow to cool or serve hot.
Serve the tart in slices with a bowl of thick cream and a glass of chilled Calvados (Apple brandy) available from our shop or online at www.frenchmarket.co.za.
Bon Appétit!