Apple Strudel is easy to make than we can think! It has a flaky crust with apple, cinnamon filling. It originated in Austria. Traditional Apple Strudel is made with a simple dough that bakes into a flaky crust having filling of apples, rum soaked raisins and chopped almonds. I made this strudel using pastry sheet, raisins, apple, cinnamon and copped walnuts.

Apple Strudel
Servings: 8 pieces
Time: 1.5 Hours
Difficulty: Easy
A flaky crusted strudel with stuffing of apples, cinnamon, raisins and walnuts
Ingredients
Frozen pastry sheet – 1 no (thawed well, but make sure that it is still chill)
Apples – 2 nos
Light brown sugar – 150 gm
Cinnamon powder – 3 tsp
Raisins – 1/4 cup
Walnuts – 1/4 cup (roughly chopped)
Flour – 1 tbsp
Milk – 1 tbsp (for milk wash)
Powdered sugar – 1 tbsp (for dusting)
Directions
Pre-heat the oven at 180 degree Celsius
Peel and chop apples with 1/2 inch pieces and keep it in a medium bowl
Add brown sugar, raisins and chopped walnuts with apples and mix well
Add flour and mix well. Flour will help soak juices released by apple mixture. Otherwise it will make the pastry sheet soggy.
Unroll the pastry sheet on parchment paper
Mark the pastry sheet in 3 equal parts widthwise
Make cuts on the right and left side of pastry sheet with knife while keeping one inch portion on top as well as bottom.

Spread apple mixture in the center portion of the pastry sheet
Cut four corners of the pastry sheet and fold top as well as bottom center portion of sheet over the apple filling
Weave pastry sheet cuts overlapping one another alternately till end


Apply milk wash on the top of the prepared strudel
Bake in oven for around 40-45 minutes until the top becomes flaky and golden brown
Take out from the oven and dust with powdered sugar
Allow it to cool completely and serve

