Best Tarte Tatin Easy Version Recipes
THE WORLD-FAMOUS TARTE TATIN
Not only is this dessert delicious, it was invented quite near where I was staying by the Tatin sisters. The story goes that one of them was making an apple tart but, for whatever reason, made a mistake and left it too long in the oven. However, she thought she could salvage it, so she ended up turning it upside down and her guests went mad for it. I wish all my cooking mistakes had such happy results. Hopefully, this recipe will give you the basics so that you'll be able to stretch it by using pears, quinces, peaches, apricots or a mixture... I'm sure the sisters would love the fact that people were bending this recipe to make it their own. Light golden puff pastry, soft juicy fruit and crisp caramel is a great combination! You could serve this with a spoonful of creme fraiche or whipped cream, but personally I love the contrast between the warm tart and cold ice cream, especially the prune and Armagnac ice cream!
Provided by Jamie Oliver
Time 1h8m
Yield 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F/190 degrees C/gas 5. Dust a clean surface and a rolling pin with flour and roll out your puff pastry until it's just over 1/4-inch/0.5cm thick. This will be enough to cover the ovenproof frying pan you'll be cooking the tarte Tatin in, leaving about 2 inches/5 cm extra around the edge. Put the pastry to one side for now. Peel your apples, then halve them horizontally and use a teaspoon to get rid of the seeds and core. Put the ovenproof pan on a medium heat and add the sugar, Calvados, vanilla seeds, and pod. Let the sugar dissolve and cook until the mixture forms a light caramel. Once the caramel looks and smells delicious - it should be a lovely chestnut brown - add your halved apples. Carefully stir everything in the pan and cook for about 5 minutes or until the apples start to soften and you get a toffee apple vibe happening. Add the cubed butter, then lay the pastry over the top. Quickly and carefully tuck the pastry down right into the edges - it's best to use a wooden spoon so you don't touch the caramel. Bake the tarte Tatin for about 25 to 30 minutes, or until golden, with crispy caramelly pieces bubbling up from under the edges. Take it out of the oven. To make it look like a tarte Tatin you need to turn it out, which isn't hard - but you do need to be careful with that hot caramel. So get a serving plate or board larger than your pan and put an oven glove on to protect the arm holding the board. Put the board or plate on top of the pan, then quickly, carefully and confidently turn it out (remember you can go to www.jamieoliver.com/how-to and see a video of how to do this safely). Put it to one side for a few minutes, so the caramel can cool down, then divide it up and serve with a spoonful of creme fraiche or ice cream.
SIMPLE TARTE TATIN
This is a double crust recipe, so you will only be using one for the tarte tatin. Refrigerate or freeze the other one for another use.
Provided by Claire Thomas : Food Network
Categories dessert
Time 2h20m
Yield 8 to 10 servings
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Stir together the sugar and vanilla bean seeds in a small bowl. Using your hands, press the butter as evenly as you can into a 10-inch ovenproof skillet and sprinkle the vanilla sugar on top.
- Arrange the apple halves standing upright, with the rounded sides facing outward, in a tight concentric circle around the skillet. Repeat until the skillet is completely filled.
- Place the skillet over medium heat and cook until a golden brown caramel forms, 20 to 30 minutes. It's ok if the caramel is a little patchy. Remove the skillet from the heat and let cool for a few minutes.
- Meanwhile, roll the pie dough 1/8 inch thick on a lightly floured work surface. Roll onto a rolling pin then unroll it over the skillet. Carefully tuck any overhanging dough inside the skillet.
- Bake until the apples are bubbling and the crust is golden brown, about 20 minutes. Let cool to room temperature, then carefully flip onto a serving dish. Cut the tarte tatin into wedges and serve with whipped cream.
- Combine the flour, sugar, salt and butter in a food processor. Pulse until the chunks of butter are broken down to the size of peas and the flour feels like wet sand.
- Add 1/4 cup of the ice water and process until the dough comes together easily. If the dough immediately clumps apart, pulse in 2 more tablespoons of ice water at a time. Remember, you can always add more water but not more flour, so be careful not to add too much water at once.
- Divide the dough in half and shape each into a ball. Loosely wrap each ball in plastic wrap and flatten the dough into a disk about 1 inch thick. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes and up to overnight.
TARTE TATIN -- EASY VERSION
Classic French apple tart. I make this every fall during apple season, usually end up with the recipe memorized as I'm churning out my 14th, or 15th, tarte by the end of the year. Use tart Granny Smiths for best results. Use store-bought puff pastry to make it super easy! I found this method by trial and error to bypass making caramel first. (At the suggestion of my friends 2Bleu, a note about traditional tarte tatin: The traditional tarte tatin starts by making caramel in a cast-iron skillet first, then cooks the apples in the caramel on the stovetop, then has you make a crust like a pie crust, which gets placed on top of the apples, then the whole thing is moved into the oven. It's delicious, but a tedious method. So I played around in the kitchen until I discovered this method by a wonderful accident! Don't you love when that happens? ;-) )
Provided by Susiecat too
Categories Tarts
Time 2h
Yield 12 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Mix sugar and melted butter and press evenly into greased 8" or 9" round cake pan.
- Put apples on their sides in rows decoratively around pan, packing closely together and filling small spaces with broken segments of apples.
- Sprinkle tops of apples lightly with cinnamon if desired.
- Bake uncovered at 425F about 1-1 ½ hours.
- If apples start to burn, they can be covered toward the end of the baking time.
- Meanwhile, unfold pastry sheet and cut to fit pan. Use another pan to trace shape if necessary.
- Poke fork holes into both sides of puff pastry sheet to allow air to escape while baking.
- Press pastry on top of baked apples, pushing edges down. Bake another 20 minutes.
- Cool partially, then invert to a platter. Serve warm.
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