Strudel with pears

Cooking strudel And you knew that the strudel actually goes back to the Byzantine Empire? Yes Yes! Only in the middle of the 19th century this dessert came to Austria-Hungary, and very much fell in love with it. Dough for strudel in different regions is done in different ways - puff, sand or traditional. And the filling can also vary very much, giving rise to salted strudels with vegetables and nuts. Traditionally, strudel is cooked with apples, but the option with pears is no worse. A drop of amaretto gives him even warmer and more mysterious notes.

Cooking strudel And you knew that the strudel actually goes back to the Byzantine Empire? Yes Yes! Only in the middle of the 19th century this dessert came to Austria-Hungary, and very much fell in love with it. Dough for strudel in different regions is done in different ways - puff, sand or traditional. And the filling can also vary very much, giving rise to salted strudels with vegetables and nuts. Traditionally, strudel is cooked with apples, but the option with pears is no worse. A drop of amaretto gives him even warmer and more mysterious notes.

Ingredients:

• Flour, wheat 250 g
• Eggs chicken 1 pc.
• Salt 1 pinch
• Olive oil 2 tbsp. l.
• Water 100 ml
• Sugar 120 g
• Black raisins 100 g
• Cedar nuts 50 g
• Breadcrumbs 150 g
• Pear 1500 g
• Lemon 1 pc.
• Cinnamon powder 2 tsp.
• Butter 150 g
• Liqueur "Amaretto" 100 ml

Instructions

• Step 1 To prepare the dough, you will need flour, salt, egg, olive oil and warm water. For the filling - pears, lemon peel, raisins, amaretto, breadcrumbs, pine nuts, butter and sugar.
• Step 2 To prepare the dough for the strudel, mix the flour, egg, olive oil and salt.
• Step 3 Add a little warm water and mix not too stiff dough.
• Step 4 Knead the dough until it falls behind the sides of the dishes, and becomes elastic. It should stretch well and not break. Roll it into a bowl and put it in a cold place for an hour (or in a freezer for half an hour).
• Step 5 Cut the pears into small pieces, add sugar, zest of one lemon, cinnamon and amaretto. Then add the raisins and stir. Leave aside for impregnation.
• Step 6 At this time, melt half the butter in a deep frying pan
• Step 7 Fry the breadcrumbs to make them golden brown.
• Step 8 Roll the dough into a very thin layer, almost transparent.
• Step 9 Grease the sheets with melted butter and put the breadcrumbs, leaving the edge 2 cm.
• Step 10 Put the filling in one layer.
• Step 11 Start spinning in a roll, with care, so as not to tear the dough.
• Step 12 Lubricate the strudel with melted butter.
• Step 13 Bake in the oven at 200 ° C for 40 minutes until golden brown.