I believe that the tastiest healthy pie is the apple one!
Apple pie makes me think of orchards and country style kitchens,
brings back the smell of childhood,
feelings of joy and happyness and
makes me smile!!!
Yesterday, at my son's request, I prepared this special, simple
but powerfull sweet delight!
Here comes the recipe!!!
CARME'S APPLE PIE
Ingredients for crust:
150 g whole wheat flour
150 g white unbleached flour
100 g granulated sugar
1 pinch salt
1 egg
2 TBS Martini liquor (instead you can edd another egg)
150 g butter (1 stick abd 2 spoons)
Ingredients for filling:
4/5 golden apples
half tsp cinnamon
1 TBS sugar (optional)
half lemon lemon juice
2/3 amaretti (almond Italian cookies)crushed
To prepare dough, put flours and salt on a wooden board and form a well.
Inside put sugar, egg and liquor and start mixing them with your hands.
Add room temperature butter and mix all the ingredients well to obtain a
soft ball.
Transfer in a bowl, cover with cling paper and refrigerate.
Meanwhile peel and slice the apples, mix them with lemon juice,sugar and cinnamon.
Take out the fridge the pastry dough and cut three quarter of it leaving the other part to rest.
Flour wooden board and with a rolling pin make it flat and round to fit a round baking tray.
Butter and flour baking tray base and transfer dough in it.
Cover bottom with amaretti, then add the apples.
Flatten the other part of dough to make it round and big enough to cover pie.
Close border well folding pastry, make small cuts on top of pie and bake at
375 F or 180 C for 40 minutes or till golden.
Cool down and serve with a dollop of sour cream.
Enjoy it!!!!
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