Apple tart, saffron cream recipe
Ingredients
- 8 Royal Gala apples
- 30g butter
- 1 tablespoon of cinnamon
- 100g sugar + 10g for tart base
- 1 ready-made puff-pastry base
Custard:
- 1/2l milk
- 5 egg yolks
- 100g sugar
- Saffron pistils
- 1 vanilla pod
Preparation
Custard:
Boil the milk with the vanilla and saffron.
Beat the yolks and sugar.
Pour the boiling milk over then cook the mixture until it coats a spoon.
Cool.
Apples:
Peel and quarter the apples.
Pan-fry them in the butter, add the sugar, coat them in the caramel and sprinkle with cinnamon.
Tart:
Prick the tart base, sugar it and cook it between two trays.
Add the pan-fried apple and a dash of custard.
Cook 5min at 180°C.
Thanks :
Recipe made by Mickey Bourdillat, master chef of Le Matafan from Chamonix
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