2015년 8월 31일 월요일

Apple Pie with a Crispy Top

My favorite dessert is an apple pie. It is relatively healthy compared to other sweet desserts. Also, it is so easy to make.


Ingredients
apple                                  3                      
sugar                                  3 tablespoons
cinnamon powder              2 teaspoons     
butter                                  60g

Pie dough
flour                                  1 cup                
sugar                                 2 tablespoons
salt                                    1/4 teaspoons  

1. Dice butter and keep it in a refrigerator.

2. Mix flour, sugar and salt in a food processor.



3. Add butter to the above and pulse it several times.


4. Add icy water to the above when the size of butter becomes small enough. Start with 2 tablespoons of water and increase it until the mixture has a dough-like consistency.





5. Pour the above on a tray and press it to a lump.



6. Divide the above into two pieces - 60:40. 60 goes to the bottome. 40 goes to the top.


7. Keep the above in a refrigerator after putting a plastin wrap around it.

8. Cut apples thinly.



9. Add sugar and cinnamon powder to apples. Set it aside after mixing them.



10. Bring out a dough from a refrigerator. Roll it out into a circular shape. Place it on a baking pan.


11. To make a top, roll the dough thinly into a rectangular shape. Fold it a few times and cut it like noodles.


12. Place apples on a baking pan and cover it with butter noodles.




13. Add 2 tablespoons of water to one egg yolk and beat it. Brush this on the pie top.


14. Put the pie in an oven preheated at 220 degrees for 30 minutes and lower the temperature to 180 degrees for another 30 minutes.

As you know, ingredients develop their best flavors at 120-180 degrees. However, they start to generate bad taste beyond 200 degrees. If we continue to bake the pie at 220 degrees, the pie will end up black and untasty.

Then, why did I set the initial temperature at 220 degrees? Even though it is 220, it doesn't mean that the pie is 220. Most of heat goes to evaporate water in apples and dough. It takes some 30 minutes for water in the pie to evaporate. Then, the pie dough starts to brown. This is when we lower the temperature to 180 degrees.


As our pie dough on top is very thin, it is like a biscuit...so crispy and so delicious.



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