Lisa's apple pie Gluten Free version, the "Battle Horse" in Elisabetta Torossi's kitchen

After the beetroot risotto with prosecco and saffron, the tomato tatin, the baby octopus with black rice, and the stuffed cold tomatoes, today it is Elisabetta's turn to reveal her "workhorse" in the kitchen.

A recipe that takes its name from the mother, Lisa, who was able to teach her daughter the love and passion for cooking. A cake that in the past has had to cheer and reward the American architecture students who collaborated with Lisa and who today he lives again in the pastry shop of his daughter Elisabetta.

Today Elisabetta Torossi reveals her "workhorse: Lisa's apple pie (gluten free version), one of the 72 workhorses of the cookbook created by The Citizen Foundation - TCF" My Battlehorse ". The proceeds will be invested in quality education for the most disadvantaged children, especially girls, of Pakistan.

This is my mom's cake, Lisa. She often prepared it for the many American architecture students who collaborated with her and the architect Bruno Zevi and who frequented our house during my youth. I wanted to offer this cake also in my gluten free pastry. We simply replaced the wheat flour with rice: the cake is always delicious!

INGREDIENTS FOR 8 PEOPLE:
1 kg of apples
• 200 g of granulated sugar
• 50 g of rice flour
• 50 g of potato starch
• the grated rind of 1 untreated lemon
• 1 egg
• 1 sachet of vanilla yeast for cakes
• 1 pinch of vanilla • butter to taste
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 glass of rum
• milk to taste

PREPARATION 60 MINUTES:
• Preheat the oven to 180 ° C / 350 ° F.

• Cut 500 g of apples into very small pieces and the rest into very thin slices.

• Mix half of the sugar with the egg in a bowl. Sift the rice flour and potato starch with the vanilla yeast, salt and grated lemon peel. Mix well so that the mixture is homogeneous. Then add the rum, vanilla and a little milk: the mixture must be fluid but not too thick.

• Add the chopped apples and pour the mixture into a greased and sweetened mold with a diameter of about 20 cm.

• Arrange the apple slices on top of the mixture in a slightly overlapping radial pattern, sprinkle with the remaining sugar and, finally, add some small pieces of butter.

• Bake in the oven for about 40 minutes; once cooled, remove the cake from the pan gently.

Enjoy your meal!