Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Queenie’s Apple Strudel

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Queenie’s Apple Strudel

QUEENIE: Hey, Mr. Scamander, you prefer pie or strudel?

NEWT: i really don’t have a preference

[looking at Jacob]

QUEENIE: You prefer strudel, huh, honey? Strudel it is.

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Queenie’s Apple Strudel Recipe

I LOVE FANTASTIC BEASTS!!! After so many months of avoiding sneak peaks and trailers, I finally saw the movie on Friday night and I miss being in that world already!  There were a few amazing food scenes in the movie and lucky for us, we don’t need to witches or wizards to create them  I don’t want to go into detail spoil it for anyone who hasn’t seen the movie yet but one of the most magical scenes is when Queenie Goldstein whips up an apple strudel for Newt and Jacob.  Here is the recipe for Queenie’s apple strudel inspired by that scene.

Traditional apple strudel uses phyllo dough.  You can make phyllo dough by hand but that takes much more experience than I am capable of.  I decided to use to puff pastry because it’s really easy to handle and it’s much easier to braid with than phyllo even if it’s with the store bought verison. If you decide to use phyllo dough, you can use the exact same filling with it.  I also used thinly sliced apples to create roses on the top.  It’s delicate and gives the phyllo just a little pop of color from the apple skins.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Queenie's Apple Strudel

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A recipe for Queenie's apple strudel inspired by the new movie, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

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Prep Time 40 minutes mins

Cook Time 40 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr 20 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Servings 5

Ingredients

  

• 2 sheet - puff pastry thawed in the refrigerator
• 1/2 cup / 2.5oz / 80g - raisins
• 3 tbsp - apple brandy
• 1 tbsp + 1 tbsp melted - unsalted butter
• 1/3 cup / 1.5oz / 42g - fine breadcrumbs
• 1/3 cup / 2.5oz / 56g - granulated sugar + 1 tbsp for later
• 1/4 tsp - salt
• 1 tsp - cinnamon
• 1 tbsp - lemon juice
• 4 - gala apples medium
• 1/2 cup - simple syrup

Instructions

 

• Preheat the oven to 400F. Prepare a half sheet baking pan with silpat or a sheet of parchment. Set aside.
• Combine the raisins and brandy in a small saucepan over medium low heat. Bring to a simmer and turn off the heat and cover to allow the raisins to plump up. Set aside.
• Heat a small pan over medium heat and add the one tbsp of butter. Heat until melted. Add the breadcrumbs and cook for a few minutes until lightly toasted and fragrant. Set aside.
• Peel and core 3 of the gala apples, Quarter the apples and cut 1/4" thick slices. Combine the apple slices in a bowl with the soaked raisins, breadcrumbs, sugar, salt, cinnamon, and lemon juice. Toss to combine. Set aside.
• On a lightly floured surface, roll the puff pastry to a 12"x14" rectangle. If the pastry gets too soft, refrigerate until firm. Arrange the apples in the center of the pastry. Fold the short end to cover the apples in the center then do the same with the bottom half (like an envelope). Swiftly turn the strudel over to have the seam side down on the baking sheet. Fold and tuck the ends under the strudel. Refrigerate.
• To create the braid, cut 9 strips of half inch wide puff pastry. Press the ends of three strips together and start your braid from there. Create three braids and drape them one in the middle of the strudel and two at each end of the strudel. Tuck the ends under the strudel.
• Slice 4 diagonal slits on the strudel and refrigerate again.
• To create the apple roses, take the last unpeeled apple cut it into quarters. Remove the core and slice the slices very thinly with a sharp knife or on a mandoline. Toss the apple slices with the simple syrup and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Turn off the heat and cover for 5 minutes. You can the slices to be soft enough where it won't break when you try to create roses out of it. Once soft, carefully create roses with the thinly slices apples. Push them gently into the slits you've created earlier.
• Brush the strudel with the one tbsp of melted butter. Dust it with the one tbsp of granulated sugar and bake for about 20 minutes until golden brown and crispy. Serve the strudel warm with a light dusting of powdered sugar.

Keyword Apple, Fantasitc Beasts and Where to Find Them, Harry Potter, Queenie, Strudel