The Best Apple Strudel (German Apfelstrudel)

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 ¼ cup all-purpose flour
• 1 pinch of salt
• ⅓ cup water

  lukewarm
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil

  e.g. canola or sunflower oil
• 14 oz apples

  cored & unpeeled or peeled, as you like
• ⅓ cup raisins
• ½ cup breadcrumbs
• ¼ cup sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• squeeze of lemon juice

  optional
• ¼ cup liquid butter

  about 2 tbsp of it for brushing
• powdered sugar

  for dusting
• vanilla sauce

Instructions

• 1 Combine flour and salt in a bowl. Make a well in the center. Pour in the water
  and oil and gradually work it in the flour from the edges. Knead with your hands
  for about 5-10 minutes until a smooth dough is formed.
• 2 Form the dough into a ball and put it back into the bowl. Brush with a little
  oil, cover the bowl airtight and let rest at room temperature for 1 hour.
• 3 In the meantime, prepare the filling. For this, quarter the cored apples and
  finely slice using a Mandoline. Add the raisins, breadcrumbs, sugar, cinnamon,
  optional lemon juice and melted butter and mix everything gently.
• 4 Preheat the oven to 392 °F (200 °C) and line a baking sheet with parchment
  paper.
• 5 Roll out / pull the dough on a large floured kitchen towel into a very thin
  rectangle until you can see through it.
• 6 Spread the filling evenly over the dough, leaving a border of about 2-3 cm.
  Brush the edges with a little butter (to make them crisp) and fold them inward.
  Then carefully roll up the strudel with the help of the kitchen towel and
  place/roll it with the seam-side down on the prepared baking sheet.
• 7 Brush the strudel with the remaining liquid butter and bake for approx. 30-35
  minutes.
• 8 Let cool briefly, dust with powdered sugar and serve with vanilla sauce if
  desired.
• 9 Enjoy!

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