Cooking time:1 hour
Serves:6-8
Ingredients needed:
For the crust:
- All purpose flour - 2 and half cup
- Cold Butter - 2 sticks or 1 cup
- Sugar - 1tbsp
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Ice water as needed
For the filling:
- Apple - 5 to 6
- Sugar - 3 tbsp or as per your taste
- Cinnamon powder or nutmeg powder - to taste
Preparation:
- You can make the dough in two ways: By hand or Using a food processor.
- Hand made dough:
- In a bowl combine flour, sugar, salt and mix well.
- Add cold butter cut in to pieces into it.
- Crush or squash butter pieces along with some flour using only your fingertips.
- Repeat the process until all the butter pieces are crushed and the whole mixture resembles breadcrumb.
- Then add cold water only required to clump the dough together.
- Make it a smooth ball. Do not over work on the dough.
- Food processor:
- If you are using a food processor the whole process will be a lot easier.
- Add flour ,sugar , salt in a food processor and pulse to combile it together.
- Add cold butter to it and pulse until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
- Sprinkle just enough water to clump the dough together.
- Make it a smooth ball with your hand. Do not overwork on tne dough.
- Divide the dough into two halves(2/3 for the base and 1/3 for the top) ,cover with a cling wrap and refrigerate for at least 20 minutes.
- Filling:
- Peel the apple and cut it into small cubes or thin wedges.
- Discard the seeds.
- Add sugar and cinnamon powder, mix well.
- Keep it aside.
- Take the 2/3 half dough from the refrigerator.
- Dust hand and working surface with little flour.
- Roll the dough into a 12 inch circle using a rolling pin. If any crack is form around the edges, set it with your hand.
- Grease a 9 inch pie plate and grease it with little butter.
- Carefully roll the circled dough into this pie plate.
- Preheat the oven into 375F.
- Place the base of the pie in the centre rack of the oven and bake for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile take the other half of the dough from the refrigerator and roll into 9 inch circle using rolling pin.
- Take the half baked base from the oven and fill it with apple filling.
- Roll the 9inch circle over it and seal the sides with a fork.
- Using a knife make small slits on top.
- Place it again in the oven bake it for 40-50 minutes or until top turns golden brown and juices bubbling from the filling.
- Delicious apple pie is ready. Serve Apple pie with a scoop of ice cream or whipped cream.
- Notes:
- While mixing the dough if the butter started to melt place the mixture in refrigerator for few minutes and star over.
- If you overwork the dough it will become chewy instead of flaky and crisp.
- This is the basic pie dough recepe and you can use this for any kind of pie.
- This recipe is for making making 1 double crusted pie.
- You can add a little lemon juice to the apple filling to avoid discoloration.
- The reason for baking the base before filling the apple mixture is to avoid sogginess of the base.