Apple Cinnamon Tart

Ingredients:-                                                Serves 4 person


For Short Pastry
Soft flour           500 gm
Butter               250 gm
Salt                 a large pinch
Water (cold)         5/8 tbsp

For filling
Apple                5 no.
Lemon juice          1 tbsp
Water                as required
Sugar                6 tbsp
Butter               2 tbsp

Garnish
Apple (thinly sliced) 3 no.
Cinnamon powder
Vanilla Ice cream
Apricot jam    

Methods:-
- In a bowl / on a board stir the dry ingredients that is soft flour and salt together.
- Cut the butter with a knife and add or mix it with the flour until the mixture looks like coarse breadcrumbs .
- Add the water a spoonful at a time until the dough holds itself together without being too dry.
- Transfer this to a plastic bag and put it into the freezer for half an hour.
- Now roll out the dough between two sheets of cling film. Transfer to the pie dish, press into the dish and bake it in oven for 10 to 15 minutes on the heat of 200 degree celsius.
- For filling, heat water on a sauce pot and add the cut apples on the pot with lemon juice and 3 tbsp sugar and cook on a slow heat for 15 minutes.
- Now, add the butter and remaining sugar on the pot and cook again for 2 / 3 minutes stirring frequently. Set aside for cooling.
- Sprinkle the cinnamon and icing sugar on the base of the pre-baked pie crust. Pour the apple filling on the baked pie.
- Arrange the apples in a concentric fashion starting out on the edge and moving inwards.
- Sprinkle the top with the remaining cinnamon and sugar.

- Bake the pie for 30 minutes on the heat of 180 degree celsius or until the apples look like they’re done.
- Glaze with some apricot jam + water mixture for a shiny look.
- Serve with Vanilla Ice cream.