ALL BUTTER PIE CRUST

This is easy, all butter pie crust recipe which works perfectly for sweet and savoury pies. For many, making a pie crust is more intimidating than the filling. After you try this recipe, I am sure you are not going to feel the same.

It seems the most difficult part is to transfer the pie dough to the pie dish. I have shared a simple trick which will help you to do it effortlessly.

There are recipes that call for use of shortening or margarine. Nothing can replace the taste of butter for sure. Follow the steps to get a perfect all-butter pie crust.

Recipe for Butter pie crust

Ingredients for Butter pie crust

• 1 ½ cups all purpose flour (maida)
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 100gms butter (cold)
• 2 tbsp powdered sugar
• 2 tbsp ice water
• A pinch of salt (if using unsalted butter)

How to make Pie crust

Cut the cold butter into cubes.

Tip in all-purpose flour, sugar and butter. Pulse the food processor for 5 seconds. Do this repeatedly until you get a crumbly mixture.

Add one tablespoon of ice water at a time and pulse it. The mixture should look like shown in the picture.

Transfer the mixture on a board and gently bring it together to form a flattened ball.

Wrap it in a cling film and keep in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

After 30 minutes open the cling film such that you can roll the pie on the cling film itself. This will help you to handle the rolled pie. Roll the pie up to the thickness of 3 mm.

Flip the cling film along with the rolled pie such that the pie can be easily placed in the pie dish.

Peel off the cling film. Gently press the pie to take the shape of the pie dish.

Trim the edges of pie.

Fold in the edges.

Press your index finger to get a uniform pattern all around the edge.

Bring together the trimmings of pie and roll it. Cut out your favourite shapes with help of cookie cutter. These cut outs can be used to cover the pie.

Now line the pie shell with butter paper and fill it with kidney beans or any other beans. The weight of beans will prevent the crust from puffing. Pie weights can also be used. Aluminium foil can also be used instead of butter paper.

Bake in a preheated oven at 180 deg Celsius for 10 minutes.

Remove from oven. Carefully remove the kidney beans and butter paper.

Bake the pie crust for 15 minutes.

Pie is ready for filling!