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Apple Tart Tatin with Granny Smith Sorbet

Serves six to eight

Apple Tart Tatin

2kg granny smith apples, pealed, cored and halfed
100g butter, soft
200g sugar
1 sheet puff pastry

Method

Pre heat oven to 180ºC
In a thick bottomed frying pan suitable to place in the oven, smear with butter and cover with the sugar
Place the apples in the pan on their ends as tightly as possible
Gently cook over a medium heat until the sugar and butter has caramelized
Remove pan from the heat and cover apples with puff pastry, pushing the pastry inside the pan around the apples
Bake in oven for 45 minuets or until the pastry is golden
Remove from oven, very carefully but quickly, invert the pan onto a tray (watch out for any hot liquid)
Serve with sorbet, cream and Hollick ‘Nectar’

Granny Smith Sorbet

1kg sugar
1lt water
1kg granny smith apples, skin on and roughly chopped

Method

Bring sugar and water to the boil
Add 2/3 of the apples and simmer until tender, about ten minuets
Add remaining apples and bring back to the boil
Remove from heat and blend with a hand blender
Strain through a fine strainer and allow to cool
Chill over night, churn in ice cream machine to manufacturer's instructions