Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, apple pie. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Apple Pie is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Apple Pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
In a small bowl, combine the sugars, flour and spices; set aside. In a large bowl, toss apples with lemon juice. Add sugar mixture; toss to coat.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have apple pie using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Apple Pie:
- Take Pastry
- Prepare 300 g flour
- Get 1/2 tsp salt
- Make ready 165 g salted butter
- Take 120 ml cold water
- Take Apple Filling
- Prepare 1 kg green apples, sliced
- Take 120 g sugar
- Get 2 tbsp flour
- Get 1 tsp cinnamon
- Take 1/4 tsp salt
- Get 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- Take Juice from 1/2 lemon
- Get Egg Wash
- Make ready 1 egg, beaten
- Get 1 tbsp sugar
Apple pie is best served warm with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream on top. If you're looking for the best apples for apple pie and you don't want to dig too deep, go ahead and pick up a bag of Granny Smiths. They're everyone's go-to apples for baking (mine included) because they're tart and firm, keeping their shape while providing a perfect balance to the sweet ingredients. In a large food processor, pulse flour, sugar, and salt until combined.
Steps to make Apple Pie:
- Prepare pastry dough. Add flour and salt into mixing bowl. Mix well.
- Using pastry cutter, cut butter into flour. It is ready when flour/butter mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
- Add ice water slowly, starting with 60ml, then half of previous, and so on. Pull mixture into a dough. Do not knead. Refrigerate for 1 hr.
- Prepare apple filling. In a large mixing bowl, add apples, sugar, flour, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, and lemon juice, and mix well. Refrigerate till pastry is ready.
- Preheat oven to 195C fan assisted.
- Assemble pie. Divide pastry dough into 2 portions - 1 for base and 1 for crust.
- Using each half of dough, with a rolling pin, roll out dough to be slightly bigger than the 9-inch pie dish. Lay one sheet into dish to form base.
- Add apple filling. Using other sheet, place on top, and close the pie by cutting out access and pinching sheets together.
- On top of pie, make 4 cuts (to allow moisture to escape during baking). Brush top of pie with egg wash.
- Bake for 55mins. Voila!
- Serve with ice cream if preferred.
To make apple pie, you can make a two-crust pastry dough recipe from scratch, but you can also get a head start with a box of Pillsbury refrigerated pie crusts for a convenient, yet homemade-quality pie crust. Apple pie is the perfect vessel for using up whatever random variety of apples you got from the market or while apple picking. In fact, a combination of sweet and tart apples makes for a more balanced pie filling. The words "apple pie" conjure warmth, aroma, taste, and togetherness. This apple pie recipe is filled with Granny Smith apples and is tucked into a buttery pie crust.
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