Made this for children’s day celebration on 14th Nov. This Wednesday was a regular working day for us, being the day after Diwali, many ppl were on leave and it was a pretty laid back day in office. Learnt towards afternoon that it’s children’s day. I have been thinking of trying to make an apple pie since many days.. I didn't have pie baking dish so was waiting till I buy one. Anyways on Wednesday, I decided to finally make one for Shaurya. Downloaded a couple of recipes from internet. All the ingredients are generally easily available at home. Instead of pie dish, I baked it in the cake baking tin that I have. It turned out good.. was very tasty and got over in a huff!! My cake tin has a 7 inch diameter so I used the quantity as mentioned below. I had a little dough left at the end. You will have to improvise based on the quantity that you need.
You will need:
Maida (all-purpose flour) – 250gm
Butter – 60-70 gm (the more the merrier.. J - recipe said unsalted but I used the regular amul salted butter)
Powdered sugar – 1 tsp
Cold water – to knead the dough
For the apple filling
Apple – 2 (peeled and cut into small pieces)
Water – 1 cup
Powdered sugar – 2-3 tsp (depends on the size & quantity of apples)
Lemon juice - ½ lemon
Cinnamon powder – 2 tsp ( I had cinnamon sticks with me.. grounded them to make a course powder)
Milk & butter – 1 tsp each to brush the top of the pie
Preparation:
Pie Crust:
1. Cut the butter into small cubes and mix it in maida & sugar powder. Don’t melt the butter, use refrigerated ones only.. just use your fingers and rub it with maida till it gets thoroughly mixed. You will get a bread crumbs kind of texture.
2. Now add cold water little by little.. 1 tbsp at a time and knead it into a dough. Don’t make it too soft or knead a lot. It should just bind enough so that u can roll it into a circular shape for the pie crust.
3. Wrap it in plastic wrap and keep it in fridge for at least an hour.
Apple filing:
1. Take water in a pan and bring it to boil.
2. Add the apples and cook till all the water is absorbed and apples become a little tender.
3. Now add powdered sugar, lemon juice and cinnamon powder.
Assembling & Baking the Pie:
1. Preheat an oven at 200 degree C for 10 min.
2. Take out the crust dough from the fridge and divide it into 2 portions.
3. Using a rolling pin, make a circle of uniform thickness with each. The diameter of the circle would depend on the baking dish that u r using.. mine was a cake tin so I made it big enough to cover the tin base and the sides. Use the same logic based on the size of the dish that u have.
4. Grease the baking tin with butter and use one of the circular dough to cover the base and sides of the baking tin. Ease the dough carefully so that it doesn’t break. Cut the excess dough with a knife.
5. Now fill in the apple filling and spread it uniformly.
6. Cover it with the second circular dough. Cut the extra dough from the edges and crimp the edges using your fingers.
7. Using a knife make 4-5 small 2inch slits from the centre of pie towards the edge. (to allow for steam to escape)
8. Grease the top of the pie with milk.
9. Once the oven is preheated, put in the pie and bake at 180 degree C for 45 min. some 5-10 min before the end, take it out, brush it with butter and resume the baking again.
10. Serve it hot or cold. J
Note:
1. Recipe said egg yolk for brushing the top of the pie but being veg, I replaced that with milk/butter. I believe egg yolk will give a better texture/glaze to the top.
2. My pie had a different shape owing to the usage of a cake baking tin and not the actual pie baking dish.. and hence it looked different. :-)
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