Vegetarian Christmas menu: Pyre with apples

To round off our delicious vegetarian Christmas menu, we have a „pyre with apples“. The recipe is not only simple, the result also tastes simply heavenly and is guaranteed to delight your guests. This recipe also comes from the cookery book „Vegan and vegetarian dishes“ by Susann Losseff, head chef at Düsseldorf Youth Hostel. Enjoy your meal!

Pyre with apples

Ingredients for 10 people:

  • 20 slices of sandwich toast
  • 6 apples
  • 9 tbsp butter
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • 700 ml milk
  • 600 ml whipped cream
  • 6 eggs
  • 3 sachets of vanilla sugar
  • 9 tbsp sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 2 tbsp butter

Preparation

Melt the butter with 3 tablespoons of sugar and spread on the slices of toast.

Wash the apples and cut into wedges.

Brush a baking dish with butter and alternate layers of toast and apples until the dish is full.

Mix the milk with the whipped cream, eggs and 9 tablespoons of sugar and pour over the bread and apple mixture.

Sprinkle the mixture with cinnamon and vanilla sugar and bake for 30 minutes at 180 degrees. Then spread flakes of butter on top of the pyre and bake for a further 15 minutes.

You can serve the pyre with icing sugar or vanilla sauce.

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