Apple Crumble Pie
The ultimate combination of a apple pie and a apple crumble pie! Not just for christmas but a great dessert for all year round.
Servings: 8
Equipment
- 1 Food processor
- 1 8-inch wide 2 inch deep baking dish
- Foil
Ingredients
Apple Filling
- 6-7 green apples (peeled and sliced)
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
- 100 g light brown sugar
- 2 tsp cinnamon powder
- Slurry 6 tbsp water combined with 1 leveled tsp cornflour
- 2 tbsp vegan unsalted butter
Pie Crust
- 200 g plain flour
- 135 g cold cubed unsalted butter
- 35 g white sugar
- 1 tbsp white vinegar
- 2 tbsp ice cold water
Crumb topping
- 70 g plain flour
- 55 g oats
- 80 g soft unsalted butter
- 65 g white sugar
Instructions
Pie dough
- In a food processor blitz flour and sugar together.
- Drop in the cold butter and pulse till lentil sized crumbs have formed.
- Pour in vinegar and pulse again.
- Keep pulsing and pour 1 tbsp of water at a time.
- Pour everything onto a clean surface and begin to press/knead together till a firm disk has formed (you may see butter crumbs - that's okay it'll create a flakier pastry).
- Wrap in clingfilm and refrigerate for a minimum of 2 hours.
Apple filling
- Toss apples with lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon. Let it sit covered for 30 mins.
- Heat butter and pour in apples + the juice. Cover and cook on medium heat till apples are soft around the edges.
- Remove apples keeping juices in the pan. Pour in the slurry and allow it to thicken slightly but still a pour-able consistency.
Assemble
- Pre heat oven to 180c
- Using your fingertips crumb all the ingredients for the crumb topping together until chunks of crumbs appear.
- Take the pie dough out of the fridge and roll out to 30cm diameter circle.
- Drape over the dish, tuck into the corners and cut off excess. Crimp the edges.
- Once apples have cooled pour into the pie dish, followed by the reduced sauce and then top with crumbs.
- To bake ring a foil strip around the dish edge. Then bring up and over the edges of the pie crust. Bake like this for 30 minutes and then for a further 30 minutes without the foil to allow the edges for brown.
- Cool for a few hours before digging in.
