Delicious Apple Pie

Name: Delicious Apple Pie
Yield: 1 pie
Cuisine: South African
Ingredients: 2 cups Self-raising flour; 200 g (cold, cubed) Unsalted butter; 2 Tbsp Sunflower or vegetable oil; 1 pinch Salt; as needed cold Water; 5 (peeled, cored, chopped) Apples; 1 cup Granulated sugar; 1 tsp Ground cinnamon; 1 tsp Lemon juice (optional); 1/4 cup Boiling water; 2 handfuls (for blind baking, not for eating) Rice or oats; 1 (for egg wash) Egg; 1 Tbsp (for egg wash) Milk

Robyn Herbst @cook_114088924

Easy apple pie with a flakey crust

Robyn Herbst @cook_114088924

Easy apple pie with a flakey crust

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Ingredients

1 pie

2 cupsSelf-raising flour
200 g(cold, cubed) Unsalted butter
2 TbspSunflower or vegetable oil
1 pinchSalt
as neededcold Water
5(peeled, cored, chopped) Apples
1 cupGranulated sugar
1 tspGround cinnamon
1 tspLemon juice (optional)
1/4 cupBoiling water
2 handfuls(for blind baking, not for eating) Rice or oats
1(for egg wash) Egg
1 Tbsp(for egg wash) Milk

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Steps

1

Preheat oven to 200°C.
2

Place flour, salt, and oil in a bowl. Mix with a spoon.
3

Add butter and pinch into flour until combined.
4

Add water gradually, knead until a soft, pliable dough forms.
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Dough should not be sticky or crumbly; it should clean the bowl.
6

Roll dough into a short log, cut in half, cover with plastic, and chill for 1 hour.
7

For filling, add apples, sugar, cinnamon, lemon juice, boiling water, and salt to a deep pan.
8

Cook on medium heat, stirring occasionally, until apples are soft and syrupy. Let cool.
9

Remove one dough half from fridge, roll out to fit a round oven dish.
10

Flour the dish, press dough evenly to form the crust and add a piece of grease paper ontop
11

Pour 2 handfuls of rice or oats on top of the grease paper on the crust as weights to cover the bottom.
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Bake until crust is cooked but not brown. Remove from oven, discard grease paper and rice or oats, and let cool.
13

Pour cooled apple filling into the crust.
14

Roll out second dough half, cut into strips, and arrange on top in a lattice pattern.
15

Mix egg and milk, brush over dough strips.
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Bake at 180°C until golden and apples are tender.
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Let it rest and do not serve immediately to avoid the pie falling apart from being too warm
18

Serve with whipped cream