Recipe: Normandy style apple fritters

Name: Beignets de pommes
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 6 portions
Ingredients: HistoireAu début étaient tout d'abord jour de fête chez chez les romains pour les "Calendes de Mars" qui représentaient pour eux tous la fin de l'hiver.; Alors pour l'occasion les esclaves pouvaient a leur guise préparer des "Chuccuera" soit les ancêtres de nos beignets .; Ensuite la religion chrétienne reprit cette pratique et indiqua alors que ce jour (Mardi Gras) serait le jour avant le début du Carême c'est a dire 47jours avant Pâques.; 250 g de farine type 55; 1 pincée de sel fin; 2,5 dl de bonne bière blonde ou 25 cl de lait entier +12 g de levure; 3 oeufs (3 jaunes et 3 blancs); 1 filet d'huile de pépins de raisin(ou de colza); Pour l'intérieur des beignets :1 kg de pommes (reine de reinette par ex); 5 cl de calvados (sauf si vous les faites pour des enfants mais tellement bon par ailleurs); 60 g de sucre semoule; sucre glace; Huile de pépins de raisins pour la friture(si possible)

By chef patrick Asfaux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 (5 reviews) Desserts

Prep 30 min

Cook 10 min

Total 40 min

Servings 6 serv.

Ingredients for 6 servings

serves 6 :For the batter :

250 grams strong flour (half a pound)
1 pinch of table salt
1/4 litre of lager
3 eggs (separated)
1 soup spoon of grapeseed oil

For the filling of the doughnuts :

1 kilogram (2 pounds) of apples
1 soup spoon of dry apple brandy (Calvados) except if you make doughnuts for children of course !
3 soup spoon of caster sugar

Icing sugarVery clean frying oil

Step-by-step directions

1 Peel and core the apples and cut them in 1/2 inch thick slices. Put them on a dish and sprinkle caster sugar (and eventually apple brandy) on them. Cover with a cling film and put into the fridge.

2 Prepare the batter : pour the flour in a salad bowl, make a 'fountain' (hole in the middle), add the beaten yolks (like for an omelette) and the table salt then progressively pour the bier while blending with (incorporating in) the flour. Leave it during 15 minutes at room temperature and covered with a napkin.

3 Heat the frying oil to 350°F.

4 In the meantime, whisk the whites of the eggs with a pinch of salt until they form peaks then gently incorporate them into the former stuff with a wooden spatula as if you were preparing a soufflé.

5 Carefully dip the apple slices one by one into the batter then into the frying oil (a small number at a time). When they are browned of both sides, put them on a soaking paper, sprinkle with icing sugar and put them on a dish that can bear the heat of an oven.

6 Put the dish in the hot oven for a few minutes just before eating the fritters.

When drinking a bowl of traditional cider with it, you will discover Normandy ...

Pommes Beignets Friture Pâte à frire Beignet sucré Mardi gras