Apple Tart Tartin with Blackberry Compote

Apple Tart Tartin with Blackberry Compote by Gluten-free Chef of the Year finalist, Shiva Osborne.

Credited to: Coeliac UK

Kcal: 955.0

Serves 4
70 mins prep
25 mins cooking time

Ingredients

Gluten-free puff pastry:
  • 60g (2oz) rice flour*
  • 60g (2oz) brown rice flour*
  • 60g (2oz) millet flour*
  • 60g (2oz) cornstarch
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 10g (1/2oz) icing sugar
  • 1 tsp xanthan gum
  • ¼ tsp guar gum
  • 85g (3oz) cold water
  • 188g (7oz) unsalted butter
For the Blackberry sauce:
  • 20g ( 3/4 oz)Marsala wine
  • 35g (1oz) caster sugar
  • 130g (4 1/2 oz) water
  • 100g (3 1/2oz) blackberries
  • 8g (1/4oz) butter
  • 8g (1/4oz) cornflour
For the Tart tartin:
  • 25g (1oz) butter
  • 60g (2oz) light soft brown sugar
  • 0.5g cinnamon
  • 4 peeled and sliced cooking apples
  • 150g (5 1/2oz) sugar
  • 100g (3 1/2oz) water
  • 1 apple thinly sliced
  • 12 blackberries to serve

Notes: *Please check our Food and Drink Information for suitable products.

Method

For the Puff pastry
  1. Place all dry ingredients in a mixer add water to bring together
  2. Divide the loose dough into two portions and roll into two balls
  3. Pat each ball into a rectangle and spread softened butter onto one rectangle
  4. Cover the buttered rectangle with the second one and wrap in cling film.
  5. Put pastry into the fridge for 1 hour
  6. Take the pastry out of the fridge and roll the sandwiched dough until it is a third bigger
  7. Then fold the pastry in half, and half again until you have done seven turns in total
Blackberry sauce
  1. Place all ingredients into pan and bring to the boil. Once boiled remove and sieve
  2. Make corn flour up with water then whisk into blackberry sauce
Apple confit
  1. Put sugar and water in pan and make sugar stock
  2. Add thinly sliced apple and cook on each side for 45 seconds to 1 min then take out and cool on parchment paper
Tart tatin
  1. Melt butter sugar and cinnamon into tins.
  2. Add apple slices and cook for 2-3 minutes turning once.
  3. Cover loosely with pastry and put into oven at 175ºC/ 325ºF/Gas Mark 3 for 15-20 minutes.
To plate
  1. Place tart in centre of plate coat halved blackberries in sauce and place 5 on each plate around the rim in equal distance to each other, then drizzle some blackberry sauce around the edge to cover fruit and top tart with a good quenelle of clotted cream.

Nutritional information per serving

Kcal
955
Fat
46g
Carbs
128g
Protein
5g
Fibre
6g