Apple tart, saffron cream recipe

Tarte aux pommes safranée
Preparation time
15 min
Cooking time
30 min

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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