Strudel classic

Classic strudel is a confectionery product formed in the form of a roll of unleavened and thinly rolled or stretched dough filled with apples. Strudel is easy to prepare at home, using ready-made puff pastry or phyllo dough. A classic addition to apple filling is cinnamon, raisins and nuts.

Puff pastry strudel with apples

For strudel made from puff pastry with apples, an important nuance is that the dough is rolled out very thinly, which is not easy to do with your own hands and without skill. In this recipe we use ready-made puff pastry, which will be more convenient and the taste will correspond to the classics. We will complement the apple filling in Viennese style: nuts, raisins and cinnamon.

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   How to prepare strudel according to the classic recipe? In advance, you need to defrost the puff pastry under natural conditions, pour boiling water over the raisins and finely chop the peeled walnuts with a knife. To make the filling, rinse the apples well, peel and core them and cut them into thin strips. Place the sliced ​​apples in a bowl, add chopped nuts and raisins, lemon juice and sprinkle everything with sugar, vanilla and cinnamon. Mix the filling well.
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   Sprinkle the countertop with flour and unroll the defrosted dough on it. Roll them out thinly with a rolling pin. Each layer, departing 1.5 cm from the edges, grease with butter melted in the microwave.
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   Place the apple filling in an even layer on the layers of dough and fold the edges without butter over the filling.
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   Then carefully roll two rolls with your hands and place them on a baking sheet lined with paper. Grease the surface of the products with yolk. Bake puff pastry strudel with apples in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 40 minutes until golden brown. Decorate the baked strudel to your taste with powdered sugar or nuts and serve with tea. Bon appetit!

Yeast-free puff pastry strudel with apples

Homemade aromatic pastries complement and decorate any table, and when there is not enough time to prepare them, a recipe for strudel made from puff pastry without yeast with apples will help you out. We choose green apples for it, which do not give a lot of juice, and complement the taste of the filling with cinnamon.

Cooking time: 1 hour 20 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 6.

Ingredients:

• Puff pastry without yeast – 500 gr.
• Flour – 3 tbsp.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Apples – 500 gr.
• Cinnamon, ground – 0.5 tsp.
• Sugar – 100 gr.

To submit:

• Chocolate syrup - to taste.
• Ice cream - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. First of all, prepare all the ingredients for the strudel. Defrost puff pastry without yeast in natural conditions in advance. Wash and peel the apples. Prepare a baking tray with baking paper.

Step 2. Cut the prepared apples into small cubes. Place them in a separate bowl, add sugar, cinnamon and one spoonful of flour according to the recipe proportions. Then mix these ingredients well and leave for 20 minutes so that the apples are saturated with sugar.

Step 3. Sprinkle the countertop with flour. Unroll the puff pastry on it and roll it into a thin layer with a rolling pin. Spread the apple filling onto the dough in an even layer, leaving a 5 cm wide edge free. Then, use your hands to carefully roll the dough with the filling into a roll and secure the edge tightly with your fingers. Transfer the roll to a baking sheet.

Step 4. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Beat the egg with a fork and brush the surface of the strudel well. Bake the strudel in a preheated oven for 40 minutes until golden brown on the surface.

Step 5. Cool the baked strudel from puff pastry without yeast with apples, cut into portions, decorate with chocolate syrup, top with a scoop of ice cream and serve. Bon appetit!

Lavash strudel with apples in the oven

Lavash strudel with apples in the oven, or in other words - lazy strudel, is prepared simply and very quickly, and the golden brown crust and aromatic juicy filling will delight everyone. For strudel we take unleavened thin pita bread and sour apples. Simmer the sliced ​​apples with sugar in a frying pan. By replacing sugar with honey and butter with cottage cheese, you can make your baked goods dietary.

Cooking time: 35 minutes.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Servings: 5.

Ingredients:

• Lavash – 100 gr.
• Apples (net weight) – 280 gr.
• Yolk – 1 pc.
• Sugar – 60 gr.
• Vanilla sugar - to taste.
• Butter – 60 gr.
• Powdered sugar - for serving.
• Mint - for serving.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Prepare all the ingredients for the strudel according to the recipe proportions and the number of servings you need.

Step 2. Cut the apples, peeled and seeded, into small cubes.

Step 3. Melt 30 g of butter in a frying pan, dissolve 30 g of regular sugar and a little vanilla in it, add the sliced ​​apples and simmer over low heat until soft. Then cool the apples a little.

Step 4. On the countertop, unroll a sheet of pita bread and brush it with the remaining softened butter.

Step 5. Then sprinkle the pita bread with the rest of the sugar and place the apple filling on it. Fold the edges of the pita bread inward.

Step 6. Then carefully wrap the filling into a roll, brush the edge with yolk and secure so that the filling does not leak out during baking.

Step 7. Place the roll on a baking sheet lined with paper, and brush the surface with the remaining yolk.

Step 8. Preheat the oven to 190°C. Bake the strudel for 20-25 minutes until golden brown on the surface.

Step 9. Cool the baked dessert a little and place it on serving plates.

Step 10. Sprinkle the lavash strudel with apples with powdered sugar, decorate with mint leaves and serve for tea. Bon appetit!

Strudel from ready-made puff pastry with apples

Classic stretched thin dough for strudel requires time and sufficient skills in working with dough, which a modern housewife does not always have, so we replace such dough with ready-made puff pastry and in an hour you will have a wonderful homemade pastry - strudel with apples. We prepare it on a yeast-free dough, and the filling will be only apples flavored with cinnamon.

Cooking time: 1 hour 10 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 6.

Ingredients:

• Yeast-free puff pastry – 250 gr.
• Flour – 3 tbsp.
• Butter – 2 tbsp.
• Apples – 6 pcs.
• Sugar for filling – 100 gr.
• Cinnamon – ½ tsp.
• Butter for greasing – 1 tbsp.
• Sugar for sprinkling - 2 tbsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Immediately prepare the ingredients for baking strudel, according to the proportions of the recipe. If your dough is frozen, defrost it naturally in advance. Select sour apples, wash them and remove the peel.

Step 2. Then cut the apples in half, remove the seed pods and cut into thin slices. There is no need to cut it very thin, because they will be stewed and baked in the dough.

Step 3. Melt two tablespoons of butter in a frying pan.

Step 4. Place all the apple slices into hot oil, and their volume will decrease during frying.

Step 5. Sprinkle them with sugar and ground cinnamon.

Step 6. Cook the apples for 15 minutes, stirring over medium heat, until the apples are soft and the juice has completely evaporated.

Step 7. Then transfer the apple slices to a separate bowl and leave to cool.

Step 8. Unroll the thawed puff pastry on a floured countertop and roll it out into a thin rectangular layer with a rolling pin (in one direction).

Step 9. Place the apple filling in a longitudinal mound in the middle of the dough.

Step 10Cover the filling with one edge of the dough.

Step 11. Then fold the second edge tightly and transfer the strudel to a baking sheet lined with paper.

Step 12. Seal the edges of the strudel tightly. Grease its surface with butter, sprinkle with sugar and make several cuts on the surface.

Step 13. Preheat the oven to 200°C. Bake the strudel for 35-40 minutes until golden brown on the surface.

Step 14. Cool the baked strudel from the prepared puff pastry with apples, cut into portions and serve for tea with a scoop of ice cream or any topping. Bon appetit!

Yeast dough strudel

Strudel with apples on yeast dough is not a classic dessert option, but tasty, especially for lovers of yeast baked goods. In this recipe, we knead the dough with fresh yeast, roll it out thinly, add apple filling, which we supplement with cranberries, roll it up and bake in the oven. You don’t need any special skills to knead yeast dough, but the taste of the strudel will be different compared to using frozen puff pastry.

Cooking time: 1 hour 50 minutes.

Cooking time: 40 minutes.

Servings: 8.

Ingredients:

• Apples – 360 gr.
• Cranberries – 50 gr.
• Ground cinnamon – 2 tsp.
• Flour – 600 gr.
• Water – 200 ml.
• Fresh yeast – 25 gr.
• Sugar – 2 tbsp.
• Salt – ½ tsp.
• Vegetable oil – 4 tbsp.
• Vanilla sugar – 1 tsp.

For the syrup:

• Water – 50 ml.
• Sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Powdered sugar - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. First of all, measure out the exact amount of ingredients according to the recipe. Wash the apples, peel them and cut into small pieces. Rinse the cranberries or other berries and dry with a napkin.

Step 2.Pour warm water into the bowl for kneading dough, add sugar and salt and dissolve fresh yeast, which can be replaced with 1 packet (10-11 g) of instant yeast. Pour half of the sifted wheat flour into this mixture and mix everything well. Leave the mixture for 30 minutes in a warm place to activate the yeast. Then pour vegetable oil into the risen dough, add vanilla sugar, sift the rest of the flour through a sieve, and knead the dough with your hands for 10-15 minutes.

Step 3. Divide the kneaded dough into two parts and roll each into thin rectangular layers with a rolling pin. Place sliced ​​apples on each layer, sprinkle with cranberries, sugar and cinnamon, leaving the edges free. Using your hands, roll the filling into rolls and seal the edges tightly.

Step 4. Transfer the rolls to a baking sheet lined with paper. In a separate cup, prepare syrup from hot water and sugar. Lubricate the surfaces of the rolls well with the syrup. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Bake the strudels for 30-40 minutes until golden brown.

Step 5. Cool the baked apple strudels on yeast dough a little, sprinkle with powdered sugar, cut into portions and serve with tea. Bon appetit!

Filo dough strudel

Strudel made from phyllo dough, golden brown and crispy on the outside, with a pleasant taste of fresh baked goods, will be a good dessert for any table. This dough is a bit like puff pastry, but is rolled out very thin and contains no baked goods. For strudel, it is better to take ready-made frozen phyllo dough, because kneading it yourself is quite difficult. We bake the strudel with apples and add cinnamon and cardamom to the flavor of the filling.

Cooking time: 55 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 6.

Ingredients:

• Filo dough – 1 package.
• Apples – 800 gr.
• Butter – 120 gr.
• Ground cinnamon – 1 tbsp.
• Ground cardamom – ¼ tsp.
• Sugar – 6 tbsp.
• Powdered sugar – 50 gr.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Defrost the phyllo dough in advance on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator and 1-1.5 hours is enough for this. Prepare the remaining ingredients for the strudel according to the recipe.

Step 2. Wash the apples for the filling and remove the seed pods. Then cut the apples into small, no more than 1 cm, cubes. Place the apple slices in a dry, heated frying pan, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and cardamom and caramelize them for 5 minutes while stirring.

Step 3: Melt the butter in the microwave. Unroll the defrosted phyllo dough onto a floured countertop. From 1 package of phyllo dough you will get 3 strudels. Brush each layer of dough with melted butter and you need 4-5 sheets of dough for one strudel. Place the prepared apple filling on the edge of each strudel.

Step 4. Then fold the free edges of the dough and carefully roll everything into rolls so that the filling does not leak out during baking.

Step 5. Place the strudels on a baking sheet lined with paper. Preheat the oven to 180°C in advance. Bake the strudels for 25 minutes until golden brown.

Step 6. Cool the baked phyllo dough strudels a little, sprinkle with powdered sugar and can serve. Bon appetit!

Homemade strudel with apples and nuts

Adding nuts to apples in the strudel filling will make the baked goods much tastier, because nuts after heat treatment give the dessert a special aroma. In this recipe for strudel at home, you are invited to knead yeast-free dough with your own hands.For the filling, in addition to apples, we take walnuts, and complement the taste of the filling with cinnamon and raisins.

Cooking time: 2 hours.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 6.

Ingredients:

For the test:

• Wheat flour – 250 gr.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Salt – 1 chip.
• Melted butter – 1 tbsp.
• Milk – 100 ml.

For filling:

• Apples – 5 pcs.
• Chopped walnuts – 1 tbsp.
• Lemon juice – 1 tbsp.
• Raisins – 50 gr.
• Orange zest – 2 tbsp.
• Sugar – 2 tbsp.
• Cinnamon – 1 tsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. First you need to knead the strudel dough. To do this, beat one chicken egg with milk and a pinch of salt in a bowl with a whisk. Pour sifted flour into a bowl for kneading dough, pour in the beaten egg-milk mixture, add melted butter and knead the dough with your hands until it has a smooth, homogeneous consistency.

Step 2. Beat the kneaded dough 6-10 times on the countertop, roll into a log, cover with a cup or napkin and leave to proof in a warm place for 1 hour.

Step 3. During this time, prepare the strudel filling. Wash the apples, peel, remove the core and cut the pulp into small cubes. Place the sliced ​​apples in a separate bowl, pour lemon juice over it, add chopped walnuts, sugar, orange zest (optional) and cinnamon. Mix the filling well with a spoon.

Step 4. Roll out the prepared dough on a floured towel into a thin rectangular cake. Brush it with melted butter.

Step 5. Place the prepared apple filling on the dough in an even layer. Then, using a towel, carefully wrap the dough with the filling into a roll and seal the edges tightly. Place the roll in a mold or on a baking sheet lined with paper. Preheat the oven to 180°C.Bake the strudel for 40 minutes until golden brown on the surface.

Step 6. Cool the home-baked strudel with apples and nuts a little, sprinkle generously with powdered sugar, carefully so that the dough does not crumble, cut into portions and serve. Bon appetit!

Homemade strudel with cottage cheese and apples

Homemade strudel with cottage cheese and apples is a simplified version of the classic Viennese pastry. The main taste of the strudel is determined by the apple-curd filling, beloved by many, and you can choose any dough or knead it yourself. This recipe offers you the fastest way to bake strudel with cottage cheese and apples - based on lavash. We do not add sugar to the filling, and replace the sweetness with raisins and sweet apples, which will be your PP baking option.

Cooking time: 25 minutes.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• Lavash – 1 pc.
• Sweet apples – 2 pcs.
• Cottage cheese – 180 gr.
• Raisins – 30 gr.
• Cinnamon – 1/2 tsp.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Sugar - optional.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Rinse the sweet apples well, peel and chop on a coarse grater.

Step 2. On the countertop, unroll a sheet of pita bread of any shape. Place grated apples in an even layer on half a sheet of pita bread and sprinkle them with cinnamon. If desired, you can add a little sugar.

Step 3. Evenly place pre-prepared seedless raisins on top of the apples.

Step 4. Mash cottage cheese of any fat content well with a fork and crumble it in an even layer over the apples and raisins.

Step 5. Then fold the edges of the pita bread and carefully roll it into a roll so that the filling does not leak during baking. Place the strudel on a baking sheet lined with paper. Brush its surface with beaten egg.

Step 6.Preheat the oven to 200°C. Bake the strudel for 15 minutes until golden brown. Usually this time is enough.

Step 7. Cool the baked strudel with apples and cottage cheese. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, cut into pieces and serve. Bon appetit!

Strudel with apples and raisins

Strudel with apples and raisins, as a variant of a popular pastry not only in Europe, will be a quick and tasty recipe for you. The delicate texture of the strudel remains the next day. The dessert is ideal for breakfast or tea. Prepare strudel on puff pastry. For the filling, choose strong apples and dark, seedless grapes.

Cooking time: 1 hour 15 minutes.

Cooking time: 45 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Puff pastry – 400 gr.
• Apples – 400 gr.
• Sugar – 150 gr.
• Dark raisins – 150 gr.
• Flour for dusting the table – 150 gr.
• Water (boiling water) for raisins – 150 ml.
• Olive oil – 30 ml.
• Yolk for lubrication – 1 pc.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Immediately prepare, according to the recipe, all the ingredients for baking strudel. Thaw the puff pastry in advance.

Step 2. Wash the apples, remove the core and, without removing the peel, so that they do not lose their juiciness, cut into small pieces of arbitrary shape. Place the apple slices in a frying pan and place over medium heat. Sprinkle them with sugar and you can change the amount if the apples are sour.

Step 3. Pour boiling water over the raisins for 10 minutes. Caramelize the apples while stirring with a spatula until juice appears and is medium soft.

Step 4. Then add the soaked raisins to the apples and after the juice has completely evaporated, turn off the heat.

Step 5. Unroll the defrosted dough on a floured countertop and roll it into two layers up to 1 mm thick.Sprinkle the surface of the dough with a small amount of sugar. Place the prepared apple and raisin filling on the edge of the dough, leaving the edges free.

Step 6. Then use your hands to carefully wrap the filling into the dough, forming rolls. Seal the edges of the dough tightly so that the filling does not leak during baking.

Step 7. Grease a baking sheet or line it with paper and place the strudel rolls on it. Using a knife, make several oblique cuts on their surface to remove steam.

Step 8. Preheat the oven to 170°C. Bake the strudels for 40 minutes. After 20 minutes from the start of baking, brush the strudels with beaten yolk. Then repeat lubrication after 10 minutes.

Step 9. Cool the baked strudels with apples and raisins, cut into portions and can be served for tea. Bon appetit!

Apple strudel with cherries in the oven

Apple strudel in the classic version involves filling only with apples, but recipes with the addition of various fruits, berries and nuts to the filling are no less tasty, and in this recipe we prepare apple strudel with cherries. For it we take ready-made puff pastry. The apple-cherry filling is a little more complicated to prepare, and we will add crushed cookies with nuts to it.

Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 35 minutes.

Servings: 6.

Ingredients:

• Puff pastry – 500 gr.
• Apples – 400 gr.
• Frozen cherries – 400 gr.
• Biscuit cookies – 10 pcs.
• “Jubilee” milk cookies – 100 gr.
• Walnuts – 100 gr.
• Butter – 2 tbsp.
• Starch – 1 tbsp.
• Water - ¼ tbsp.
• Sugar – 4 tbsp.
• Cinnamon – 1 tsp.
• Powdered sugar – 1 tbsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Grind two types of cookies in a blender bowl into fine crumbs. Then add the shelled walnuts and swirl again until the nut crumbs are medium.

Step 2.Peel the apples, cut into thin slices and sprinkle with cinnamon. Melt the butter in a frying pan and slightly caramelize two tablespoons of sugar in it.

Step 3. Place the apple slices into this caramel and, while stirring, fry the apples for 5-7 minutes and then leave to cool.

Step 4. Thaw the cherries in advance, pour the juice into a small saucepan and place on low heat. Dissolve starch in water. Dissolve two tablespoons of sugar in boiling cherry juice. Then pour the starch into the juice in a thin stream and cook with constant stirring until it reaches a thick consistency.

Step 5. Remove the resulting cherry jelly from the heat, transfer the cherries to it and leave to cool.

Step 6. On a floured countertop, paper or foil, unroll the pre-thawed dough and roll it into a thin long layer measuring approximately 60x30 cm.

Step 7. Place the nut-cookie crumbs in an even layer on the dough layer, without catching the edges.

Step 8: Place fried apple slices evenly on top of the crumbs.

Step 9. Place the cherries on top of the apples and pour the cherry sauce evenly over the filling.

Step 10. Then, using your hands, carefully roll the dough with the filling into a roll and seal the edges tightly so that the filling does not leak during baking.

Step 11. Place the strudel in a mold or on a baking sheet and bake in the oven at 160 degrees for 50 minutes, no less, depending on your oven.

Step 12. Place the baked apple strudel with cherries on a plate, sprinkle with powdered sugar, cool completely, and only then can you cut and serve. Bon appetit!