Apple pie with Home made crust / Double crust Apple pie

Preparation Time:30 min
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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Take the 2/3 half dough from the refrigerator.
5. Dust hand and working surface with little flour.
6. 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.
7. Grease a 9 inch pie plate and grease it with little butter.
8. Carefully roll the circled dough into this pie plate.
9. Preheat the oven into 375F.
10. Place the base of the pie in the centre rack of the oven and bake for 10 minutes. 
11. Meanwhile take the other half of the dough from the refrigerator and roll into 9 inch circle using rolling pin.
12. Take the half baked base from the oven and fill it with apple filling.
13. Roll the 9inch circle over it and seal the sides with a fork.
14. Using a knife make small slits on top.
15. Place it again in the oven bake it for 40-50 minutes or until top turns golden brown and juices bubbling from the filling.
16. 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.