Thanskgiving Jalousie

Ingredients:

500 g apples, peeled, cored and cubed
375 g puffy pastry
30 g sultanas
30 g unsalted butter
1/4 cup soft brown sugar
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp grated lemon rind
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1 egg, lightly beaten to glaze

Preparing:

Preheat oven to 220ºC (425ºF).

Melt butter and sugar in a frying pan.
Add apples, lemon rind and lemon juice, and cook for 10 minutes until mixture is thick and syrupy.
Stir in the nutmeg, cinnamon and sultanas.
Cool completly.

Cut the block of puff pastry in half.
Roll out on a floured surface one half of the pastry to a 24cm x 18cm rectangle.

Spread the fruit mixture onto the pastry, leaving a 2.5 cm border.
Brush the edges lightly with the beaten egg.

Roll the second half of the pastry on a lightly floured surface to 25cm x 18 cm rectangle.
Cut slashes in pastry across its width, leaving a 2 cm border around the edge, using a sharp knife.
Glaze the top with egg and bake for 30 minutes.