Deluxe Apple Tart

Total Time: 1 hr 32 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 7 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 5 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 6 tablespoons sugar, divided
• 2 tablespoons water, plus
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/4 cup water
• 6 medium golden delicious apples (3 pounds)
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1 (10 ounce) jar apricot preserves

Recipe

• 1 prepare pastry:.
• 2 in medium bowl with fingertips, quickly knead flour, butter, salt, 2 tablespoons sugar, and 2 tablespoons water until dough forms a ball, adding more water if necessary 1 teaspoon at a time.
• 3 pat pastry into bottom and up side of a 9-inch tart pan with a removable bottom; refrigerate.
• 4 peel, quarter, and core 3 apples and cut into even 1/8 inch slices to make about 3 cups.
• 5 in a medium bowl, toss apple slices with lemon juice and 2 tablespoons sugar.
• 6 peel and core remaining apples; cut into chunks.
• 7 in blender or food processor, combine 1/4 cup water with about 1/3 of the apple chunks.
• 8 cover and process at high speed until apples are pureed.
• 9 add remaining apple chunks, a third at a time; blend until smooth.
• 10 spoon into a 3 quart saucepan; stir in 1/3 cup apricot preserves and 2 tablespoons sugar.
• 11 over high heat, heat to boiling.
• 12 reduce heat to medium-high; cook, uncovered, about 20 minutes or until very thick. there should be about 1 1/2 cups applesauce.
• 13 preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• 14 spread applesauce evenly over pastry.
• 15 arrange reserved apple slices, closely overlapping, to form concentric circles around pie.
• 16 bake for 45 minutes or until apples slices are tender and lightly browned.
• 17 remove pie to wire rack.
• 18 strain remaining apricot preserves through a sieve into a small saucepan.
• 19 over medium-high heat, heat to boiling.
• 20 continue cooking about 2 minutes longer or until mixture is thick enough to coat a spoon.
• 21 brush mixture evenly over top of tart.
• 22 cool tart in pan on rack.
• 23 remove outer ring of tart pan before serving.