Apple roly poly pie

Photograph: Harry Weir
Photograph: Harry Weir
Serves: 4
Course: Dessert
Cooking Time: 0 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

  • 3 eating apples (I prefer to use Gala apples)
  • 3 tbsp brown sugar
  • A knob of butter
  • 1 packet of ready rolled puff pastry (275g)
  • 1egg, beaten with a splash of milk
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1. Pre-heat an oven to 180 degrees Celsius, or equivalent.

2. Peel, core, quarter and thinly slice the apples. Mix the apple with half of the sugar.

3. Grease a baking tray with the butter.

4. Lay the chilled pastry out on a counter top with the wider side facing you (if you work quickly you will not even need flour).

5. Brush the pastry with egg wash, then scatter the apples evenly over it, leaving room around the edge.

6. Roll the pastry away from you as tightly as you can, it should resemble a Swiss roll.

7. Pinch the edges and bundle the parcel as carefully as you can onto the tray.

8. Brush with more egg wash and sprinkle over the remaining sugar and put straight into the oven.

9. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until golden and crispy.

Paul Flynn

Paul Flynn

Paul Flynn is a chef, restaurateur and contributor to The Irish Times. He and his wife, Máire, run the Tannery restaurant and cookery school in Dungarvan, Co Waterford