Easy Apple Pie

My family and I love sweet and crunchy red apples. Hence, there is always apple in fridge.

But... there is one small problem. If I did not cut and serve the apples... there will be "forgotten" in the fridge and over time became a bit soft.

Throw them away? No, I don't do that and I have always taught my children not to waste food, any food, especially rice.  There are many many unfortunate people out there in other parts of the world that don't even have food.

You can now turn your soft apples into a nice and quick dessert. I have made this a few times and each time, this dessert moves so fast that I don't really have any opportunity to take a nice picture of it.

Total prepare time, depending on your cutting skills :)  I would say around 8-10mins. Total cooking time about 20 mins. I ever baked this after our dinner at around 8pm!

What you need

2 red apple

1 sheet of Puff pastry *

20ml lemon juice

10g brown sugar

A pinch of Cinnamon power (optional)

10g Butter (not too soft/ cut into small dice)

Methods

Pre heat over to 170C

Peel and cut the apple into half or quarter (but not too small) remove the core and seeds

Slice the red apple to long thin slices like what you see in the picture and place them it a bowl

Add the 20ml lemon juice, 10g brown sugar, cinnamon power into the apple and give it a good rub. The lemon juice not only gives the apple pie a nice flavour but will also prevent the apple from oxidising

Take a sheet of Puff pastry out from the pack direct from the freezer

When the puff pastry is a little soft, divide into 4 equal pieces, place them on a baking tray with some distance apart.

Line the apple slice nicely on top of the puff pastry. Finish all the apple slices on the 4 equal pieces

Top the apple pie with the pre cut butter dice

Bake in the oven for 20mins. 

Leave the apple pie in the oven for another 5mins before removing from the baking tray

Serve warm with vanilla ice cream or eat it on it's own

I hope you will try it

Note:

*

I bought this Pampas brand Puff pastry from Phoon Huat. It is also available at Cold storage. Or you may use any brand puff pastry for this.

Do not take out the puff pastry too early and only take out the exact quantity. Once expose to hot weather, the puff pastry will be very soft and may be difficult to handle