Apple Pie recipe with Grated apples?!
Answers: I want to make a new apple pie recipe that calls for 2 cups Granny Smith apples grated. Does that mean I grate apples with a cheese grater?
It sure does and I would use the coarsest side for them as well.
This will make a very applesauce like consistency for your pie once it is cooked. If you prefer to see pieces of "recognizable" apple in the pie peel and slice very thinly a few apples as well. Or you will have an homogeneous mix more like applesauce than apple pie.
APPLE PIE Recipe
Ingredients:
PIE CRUST
2 1/2 c All-purpose flour
1/2 ts Salt
1/2 c Cold unsalted butter
1/2 c Vegetable shortening
1/4 ts Grated orange rind
3 ts Very cold orange juice
3 ts Ice water
CRUMB TOPPING
1/3 c All-purpose flour
1/3 c Packed dark brown sugar
1/4 ts Ground cinnamon
dash Salt
dash Ground ginger
2 tb Cold, unsalted butter
FILLING
8 md Granny Smith apples
1 1/2 ts All-purpose flour
3/4 c Granulated sugar
1/2 ts Ground cinnamon
1/2 ts Orange rind
1/2 ts Vanilla extract
1/8 ts Ground nutmeg
dash Salt
1/2 c Honey
1 1/2 tb Unsalted butter
1 Egg, beaten
Directions:
1. For pie crust, sift flour and salt into large bowl. Cut in butter and shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add orange rind. Sprinkle in juice and
water,. 1 tablespoon at a time, mixing with fork until flour is moistened and soft dough forms. Shape into ball. Refrigerate, covered, 1 hour.
2. For crumb topping, mix flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, salt and ginger. Work in butter with fingers until mixture is crumbly.
3. For filling, peel core and cut apples into 1/2-inch slices. Put slices in large bowl; toss with 1 to 1 1/2 tablespoons flour. Add sugar, cinnamon, orange rind, vanilla extract, nutmeg and salt. Stir in honey; let stand 1 hour.
4. Heat oven to 450 degrees. Roll half of dough into a circle; fit in metal, 9-inch pie pan. Trim edge. Drain liquid from apples, reserve. Set 1/4 cup of the crumb topping aside. ayer apples with remaining crumbs in dough-lined pan. Use crumbs like mortar to build fruit up. Dot apples with 1 1/2 tablespoons butter. Sprinkle with 5 tablespoons reserved apple liquid.
5. Roll out remaining dough; cut with knife or fluted pastry wheel into 1/2-inch-wide strips. Weave strips into lattice over fruit. Seal strips at edge of pan, moistening with apple liquid. Flute edge. Sprinkle reserved crumbs in holes of lattice. Brush only crust edge and strips with beaten egg.
6. Bake on foil-lined baking sheet at 450 degrees, 5 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees; bake until apples are tender, 50 to 55 more minutes (or only 40 minutes if you like crunchier apples). Cool on wire rack to room temperature.
It sure does mean that you use a cheese grater. I make a wonderful Apple pie recipe that we received from my sister-in-law. Her crust is simply patted in the pan with some of the dough left out to crumble over the top.
I like the grated apples best because the seasonings go throughout the apples. Nothing is worse than taking a bite of apple in a pie that doesn't have any seasonings on it at all. Or, you have a mouth full of flour sauce.