Apple fritters with vanilla sauce ('Apfelküchle mit Vanillesoße')
Apple fritters with vanilla sauce ('Apfelküchle mit Vanillesoße')
- Prep time
- 14 min
- Cook time
- 31 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- For the frying batter:
- 1 cup (4.5 ounces | 125 g) spelt flour (type 630)
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg (size L)
- 1/2 cup (4.6 ounces | 130 g) whole milk
- For the apples:
- 4 medium-sized tart apples, peeled, deseeded, and sliced 1/2-inch thick
- juice of half a lemon
- clarified butter, for frying
- For the vanilla sauce:
- 1 vanilla pod
- 1.5 cups (350 mL) whole milk
- 3 egg yolks (size L)
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- salt, to taste
- For serving:
- icing sugar, for dusting
- ground cinnamon, for dusting
Instructions
- 1
Prepare the batter:
- 2
In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Mix well then start incorporating your egg and the milk. Whisk everything together until you have a smooth and lump-free batter. Let the batter sit for at least 15 minutes before frying the apple fritters.
- 3
Fry the fritters:
- 4
Squeeze the lemon juice into a medium-sized bowl. Add your apple slices and mix everything well.
- 5
Heat about 2-3 tablespoons of clarified butter in a large nonstick pan over medium-low heat. Working in batches, take as many of your apple slices as will fit into your pan in one layer and coat them with your frying batter. Fry them inside the clarified butter for 2-3 minutes on each side or until golden brown on both sides. Keep the heat down to prevent burning them. When taking the fritters out of the pan, transfer them on a paper towel to absorb any excess fat. Once your first batch is done, add about 1-2 tablespoons more clarified butter into your pan so that the entire frying surface is evenly coated and proceed as before until you've used up all your apple slices. Keep them warm in the oven while you prepare the vanilla sauce.
- 6
Prepare the vanilla sauce:
- 7
Cut your vanilla pod in half and scrape out the vanilla seeds using a sharp paring knife. Together with the milk, add the vanilla seeds and pod into a saucepan and heat the milk until it is lightly simmering. In a medium-sized bowl whisk together the egg yolks and sugar until well combined. Pour half of the hot milk over the egg yolk and sugar mixture and whisk until well combined. Add this mixture back into the saucepan and let the sauce heat back up just below simmering to about 175 °F (80 °C). Once the sauce has thickened, season it to taste with a small pinch of salt. Take it off the heat and don't bring it up to a boil again as your egg yolks will curdle otherwise.
- 8
To serve:
- 9
Dust the apple fritters with icing sugar and ground cinnamon and pour the vanilla sauce on top.