Apple curd combs

Name: Apple curd combs
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 9
Ingredients: 2 small apples (about 150 g each); 25 g Butter or margarine; 3 TABLESPOONS Sugar; 1 knife tip ground cinnamon; 2 TEASPOONS Lemon juice; 175 g Low-fat curd; 1 TABLESPOON Breadcrumbs; 2 Egg yolk (size M); 1 package (270 g; from the refrigerator; e.g. Aunt Fanny) Puff pastry; 7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar; 7-10 Tbsp Flour; baking paper

AUTHOR
Bill Macdonald

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
35 mins

TOTAL TIME
35 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 9

2 small apples (about 150 g each)
25 g Butter or margarine
3 TABLESPOONS Sugar
1 knife tip ground cinnamon
2 TEASPOONS Lemon juice
175 g Low-fat curd
1 TABLESPOON Breadcrumbs
2 Egg yolk (size M)
1 package (270 g; from the refrigerator; e.g. Aunt Fanny) Puff pastry
7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar
7-10 Tbsp Flour
baking paper

Directions

1
Peel, quarter, core and dice the apples. Heat butter in a pot. Steam diced apples for about 2 minutes while turning. Add sugar and continue steaming for about 3 minutes. Season with cinnamon and lemon juice.
2
Let it cool down. Mix apple-butter mixture with quark, breadcrumbs and 1 egg yolk. Roll out the puff pastry on the foil. Quarter the dough lengthwise and crosswise to form 9 rectangles. Roll out the rectangles slightly larger lengthwise on a floured work surface. Brush the edges of the dough with water. Spread the quark mixture on one half of the dough sheets, fold the other half over and press down well. Make several cuts of about 1 cm on one long side. Put curd combs on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Whisk 1 egg yolk with 1 tbsp.
3
Spread the quark mixture on one half of the dough sheets, fold the other half over and press down well. Make several cuts of about 1 cm on one long side. Put curd combs on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Whisk 1 egg yolk with 1 tbsp. water, spread a thin layer on dough pockets. Bake in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for 12-15 minutes until brown. Let cool on a cake rack and dust with icing sugar
4
Waiting time approx. 20 minutes