Treat Thursday: French Delight, Apple and Prune Tourtière Gasconne. A Farmhouse Cooking Holiday Recipe.

Its been nearly two months since I experienced the memorable cooking holiday at Le Gargantua in Southwest France. The laughter, conversations, field trips, and food were the perfect combination for an incredible experience. I highly recommend this experience to anyone with the desire to spend a holiday learning, relaxing, meeting new people, and having fun ! Marlène is kind enough to let us share recipes from the school, this is the first in the series and many more will follow.

Today's Treat Thursday recipe is a delicious pastry I enjoyed making at Le Gargantua.  The Apple and Prune Tourtière Gasconne was a delicately assembled and delicious flavour combination of sweet and tart with a touch of liquor. It's simple to make and will please guests!  My time spent at Le Gargantua is an experience that I will always cherish and look forward to sharing more recipes from Marlène with our friends around the world. Bon Appetit

TOURTIERE GASCONNE/CROUSTADE

pour 6/8 personnes

INGREDIENTS:

1,5 kg apples

85g butter

8-12 large prunes without stones, soaked in Armagnac

4-5 tbsp of Armagnac

Vanilla extract

50g of caster sugar

8 to 10 sheets of Filo pastry

PREPARATION

Peel, core and slice apples. Cook on low heat with 25g of sugar and 1 tsp of vanilla extract, covered at first until the heat builds up, then uncovered to let the steam out.

Melt 60g of butter and leave to cool

Melt 25g of butter with Armagnac and 25g of sugar. Leave to cool

Fold the sheets of Filo in half in the length. Arrange them in a tart tin, like the sun, overlapping each other at the center of the tin.

Brush every sheet of Filo pastry with the plain butter

 
 Place the drained apples on the pastry, scatter the prunes on top.

 

Fold the pastry over, twisting once, and crunching up the end of each sheet.

Brush the top with butter and Armagnac mixture, insisting on the roses.

Bake in preheated oven (220 degrees C) for 10-12 min, then lower the temperature to 180 degrees C and bake for an additional 20 min.

 

Serve warm or at room temperature.