Chaussons aux pommes (apple turnovers) in inverted puff pastry
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Ingredients
Method
Techniques
- beurre en pommade
- farine
Mix softened butter with flour into a beurre manié, shape it into a rectangular slab between two sheets of baking paper and refrigerate until completely hard.
Making the beurre manié
- eau
- vinaigre blanc
- sel
- beurre
- farine
For the détrempe, melt and cool the butter, then mix the water, white vinegar, salt, butter and flour in the mixer; knead barely, flatten in plastic wrap and chill completely.
Roll the détrempe to the size of the butter slab, flour lightly, brush off the excess and lay it on the beurre manié; flour the work surface generously.
Tap with the rolling pin to seal, roll to 50 cm, brush off flour and fold in three for a single turn; flatten, cover and rest 1 hour in the fridge.
Roll to 70 cm and fold in four for a double turn, the seam to the side, never the centre; fold in two, cover and rest 1 hour.
Repeat a single and a double turn, for a total of single, double, single, double; rest overnight.
- pommes golden
Wash and quarter the Golden apples, remove the seeds, keep the skin, and microwave with a little water and vanilla.
- eau
- vanille
- pommes vertes
- eau froide citronnée
Dice the green apples and hold them in cold lemon water.
Blend the cooked Golden apples very fine, then cook in a nonstick pan to firm up; the filling must not be liquid or the turnovers go soft and leak.
- beurre
- sucre roux
Sauté the green apples in butter and brown sugar 10 minutes over high heat, drain, mix into the compote and cool completely, uncovered.
Cut the dough in half; roll each half, floured, to a 35 cm square about 3 mm thick, moving it constantly so it does not stick and can relax; cut rounds and chill.
Rolling and cutting the rounds
- eau
Stretch each round outward from the centre, keeping the two ends intact; put compote in the centre, moisten the edges with water (not egg wash) and seal well with the fingers.
- framboises farcies de confiture de fruits rouges
Variation: tuck raspberries filled with red-fruit jam into some of the turnovers.
- dorure
Turn the turnovers over onto the baking sheet, brush off excess flour, egg wash, chill half an hour and egg wash again; score patterns with the tip of a small knife and cut a steam hole in the middle.