“Tatin” of Apples, Onions, Cabbage and Sausage
Ingredients
- 5 Apples (semi-firm like Pink Ladies or Fuji)
- 1 sheet frozen puff pastry
- ¾ lb. of ground sausage meat (regular or vegetarian)
- ¼ of a green cabbage
- 1 onion (yellow or red)
- 1 shallot
- 2 garlic cloves
- 4-5 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp sugar
- A sprinkle of nutmeg
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cut and discard the hard core from the cabbage leaves. Blanch them in boiling salted water for up to ten minutes or until tender but still holding a slight crunch. When cooked, strain and chop. Set aside.
- Peel the onion and shallot, chop them finely and sautée them in a tablespoon of regular oil on a medium heat until cooked but not colored. Add the grated garlic, the ground sausage meat and cook for a few minutes.
- Add the chopped cabbage and cook for ten more minutes then sprinkle nutmeg and mix.
- Melt the butter in a cast iron skillet. Sprinkle the sugar on top.
- Peel and core the apples, Cut them in quarters and cut each quarter in half again.
- Dispose the apple slices in a rosace pattern on the melted butter/sugar mixture. Cook them on top of the stove for ten minutes.
- Pour the cabbage/onion mix on top of the apples.
- Cover the skillet with the round puff pastry sheet, defrosted and unrolled.
- Tuck the extra dough inside the edge of the skillet.
- Prick the dough in several places with a fork.
- Bake at 350 degree F, on the lower three tier of the oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until the crust is nicely golden and crisp.
- Take the skillet out of the oven, place a large serving plate on top of it and with a quick flip of the arm, reverse the pan unto the plate. The apples will be on top.
- Serve right away.
Notes
Can be kept a week in the refrigerator. Warm up in a 350 degree F oven, wrapped in aluminum foil.