Apple Chai Pie
 
 
Ingredients
  • For the Pastry
  • 2½ cups all purpose flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 230 grams butter, cold and cut into cubes
  • ¼ cup ice water
  • For the Filling
  • 800 grams apples, peeled, cored and seeded, cut into slices
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • ½ tsp ground ginger powder
  • 3 cloves, crushed
  • 4 cardamom pod seeds, crushed
  • 3 black peppercorns, crushed
  • ½ cup brown sugar, packed
  • 1 tbsp bread crumbs
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 1 egg
  • sugar for sprinkling on top
Instructions
  1. To prepare the crust, in a large bowl, mix the flour, salt and sugar. Add the cold butter and squeeze it with your fingers. Mixing the flour and butter slowly till it looks like coarse sand. Add the ice water, and mix together the dough until it all comes together into a ball. Divide the dough in two equal parts. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill in refrigerator for at least an hour.
  2. On a well floured top, roll out one of the two doughs, to about a 12 inch circle and place in your pie form. (I used a 9 inch). Press into place, pressing down into the form. You don't need to be neat, this is a rustic pie! Prick the bottom with a fork and set aside.
  3. Preheat oven to 220°C/425°F.
  4. Prepare the filling by peeling, and cutting the apples into slices. Place in a bowl and toss with the lemon juice.
  5. In a separate bowl mix the spices, bread crumbs, salt and sugar. Toss again to evenly coat the apples.
  6. Place the apples into the prepared pie form. Roll out the second dough just as you did the first one. Cover the top with this pie dough and seal the edges by pinching them together.
  7. In a small bowl whisk together the egg with a spoonful of water and brush over the pie dough. Sprinkle with regular sugar and make gashes with a sharp knife, just to let the steam escape. Chill your pie for another half hour if the dough has gone too soft.
  8. Bake pie for 20 minutes. Then lower temperature of oven to 190°C/375°F and bake for another 15 minutes. If the edges start browning too quickly cover with foil.
  9. Let pie cool and serve with tea or a scoop of ice cream!
Recipe by Box of Spice at https://boxofspice.com/2013/10/apple-chai-pie/