Rolled chestnut and apple brioche


Rolled chestnut and apple brioche
This rolled brioche is made with a special dough, using a mixture of two flours: ordinary plain flour and chestnut flour.

The prepared dough is then rolled up around a filling of apples sautéed with brown sugar.
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Last modified on: September 12th 2018
For 1 brioche, you will need:

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Times for this recipe
Preparation: 12 hours 45 min.
Resting: 2 hours 30 min.
Cooking: 40 min.
All in all: 15 hours 55 min.
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Stage 1 - 3 min.
Rolled chestnut and apple brioche

Prepare the chestnut brioche dough

Put into a food-mixer bowl: 200 g flour, 50 g chestnut flour (sieved), 10 g vanilla sugar, 5 g fine (or table) salt, 10 g yeast, 50 g fermented viennoiserie dough (if possible) and 370 g egg.

Stage 2 - 15 min.
Rolled chestnut and apple brioche
Knead for 15 minutes.

Note: For the best way to knead, see: A few tips for effective kneading at home.

Stage 3 - 2 min.
Rolled chestnut and apple brioche
Add 125 g butter and 20 g caster sugar.

Stage 4 - 1 hour
Rolled chestnut and apple brioche
Continue kneading until the butter is fully mixed in.

Gather the dough into a ball, wrap in plastic film and leave to rest for 1 hour at room temperature.

Stage 5 - 12 hours
Rolled chestnut and apple brioche
After resting, press down on the dough (to expel gas), gather into a ball again, then wrap in plastic film and refrigerate overnight.

Stage 6 - 5 min.
Rolled chestnut and apple brioche

Prepare the butterscotch apples

Peel 2 apples, and cut small (dice, ideally).

Stage 7 - 3 min.
Rolled chestnut and apple brioche
Melt 30 g clarified butter in a frying pan on high heat, then add 50 g brown sugar.

Stage 8 - 6 min.
Rolled chestnut and apple brioche
When the sugar begins to caramelize, add the apples all at once and sauté until well cooked and caramelized.

Stage 9 - 3 min.
Rolled chestnut and apple brioche

Roll the brioche

Take the brioche dough out of the fridge and dust with flour.

Stage 10 - 5 min.
Rolled chestnut and apple brioche
Roll out into a strip the same width as the length of your loaf tin or mould, and about 60 cm (2 ft) long.

Stage 11
Rolled chestnut and apple brioche
Lay apple pieces in a row at the near end of the strip...

Stage 12
Rolled chestnut and apple brioche
...and start rolling up, adding more rows of apples as you go.

Stage 13 - 7 min.
Rolled chestnut and apple brioche
Finish by turning the "seam" to underneath.

Trim the roll if necessary to fit your tin.

Stage 14 - 1 hour 30 min.
Rolled chestnut and apple brioche
Sit the roll in the tin or mould and glaze.

Leave in a warm place to rest for 1 hour 30 minutes.

Stage 15 - 2 min.
Rolled chestnut and apple brioche
After resting, glaze the brioche again.

Preheat the oven to 360°F (180°C).

Stage 16 - 1 min.
Rolled chestnut and apple brioche
If you wish, you can snip the top of the brioche with scisors to help it rise in the oven.

Stage 17 - 30 min.
Rolled chestnut and apple brioche
Bake for about 30 minutes.

Stage 18
Rolled chestnut and apple brioche
Leave to cool on a wire rack.
Remarks
The proportion of chestnut flour may appear small, but this is necessary: any more and the brioche will not rise properly.

It is important at step 8 to cook the apples well, otherwise, when rolled into the dough, they will give off steam during baking and create unsightly holes in the brioche.
Keeping: Several days, preferably in a cloth bag.
Source: Home made.
Nutritional information
Proteins (gr)Carbohydrates (gr)Fats (gr)Energy value (in k-calories)Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe80 RDI=30 %360 RDI=30 %220 RDI=30 %3,570 RDI=180 %14,930 RDI: 180 %
Per 100 g6 RDI=2 %30 RDI=3 %20 RDI=3 %290 RDI=10 %1,200 RDI: 10 %
The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman Change to a man
Possible allergens in this recipe: Gluten, leaven, egg, Milk
How much will it cost?
  • For 1 brioche : 4.30 €

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  • Sorry, it's a story of translation, I'm not good enough in English (not at all) to make the difference between caramel and butterscotch, who are all translated in french as "caramel".
    Posted by jh february 27th 2017 at 08:33 n° 2
  • Why would you say that the apples are butterscotch when they're in fact just caramel? I was dissapointed when i read that there was no butterscotch involved.
    Posted by Natasha february 27th 2017 at 03:36 n° 1

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