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Plăcintă cu mere (apple tart)

A rustic tart with a soft, flaky pastry, filled with apples cooked with cinnamon and sugar. It is eaten lukewarm in autumn, when the Moldovan orchards are bearing fruit.

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Ingredients

Ingredients

Pâte

Spices & seasoning

Optional extras

Nutrition facts

398 kcal per serving

Protein
8 g
Carbohydrates
61.1 g
of which sugars
25.1 g
Fat
12.4 g
Fiber
3.6 g

Ecomely’s estimate, calculated from the ingredients with the ANSES Ciqual food composition table, excluding sides and seasoning added to taste.

Instructions

  1. Mix the flour, salt, egg, oil and warm water to form a soft dough, then let it rest for 30 minutes under a cloth.
  2. Peel the apples, remove the cores and cut them into thin slices tossed in lemon juice.
  3. Mix the apples with the sugar and cinnamon.
  4. Roll the dough out very thinly, brush it with melted butter, then fold it into successive layers.
  5. Roll the dough out again into a large disc, place it in a buttered tin and fill it with the apples.
  6. Fold in the edges and brush the top with melted butter.
  7. Bake at 180 °C for 40 minutes, until the pastry is golden and crisp.

Variations and tips

Raisin version. Add 50 g of raisins to the apples for a richer tart.

More ideas

Original Ecomely recipe.