Easy, Juicy Pineapple Pie
- 1 Vanilla ice cream or whipped cream
- 100 grams Cake flour
- 100 grams Bread (strong) flour
- 100 grams Transfat-free shortening (or canola oil or butter if you can't get a hold of it)
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 4 tbsp to 5 tbsp Cold water
- 1 small Pineapple (or 2 small apples for an apple pie)
- 2 tbsp to 3 tbsp Cake flour
- 1/2 cup Cane sugar (or brown sugar), as desired
- 1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder
- It will be high in calories, but you can use a store-bought frozen pie sheet.
- I used this pie sheet from New Zealand.
- You can get it off of online sites such as Rakuten or from the import store Kaldi.
- To make pie pastry: First, mix the dry ingredients.
- Add the shortening, and cut it into the dry mixture with a fork until it looks like coarse crumbs.
- Add the cold water and bring the mixture together without kneading.
- Flatten the dough with hands and fold it in half.
- Flatten it again and fold in half and repeat this process 3~4 times.
- After you repeated flattening and folding, you will have the pie layers inside.
- If you find it difficult to do this process, you can just hold the dough in half once and bring it together!
- Halve the dough and wrap with cling film.
- Chill in the fridge for 15~30 minutes.
- You can skip this step if you don't have time.
- Lay a sheet of cling film on a work surface, dust a rolling pin and roll out each dough.
- Line a pie plate with one of the pastry.
- It's easy to do this if you flip the pastry over with the cling film underneath.
- Filling: Peel the skin and remove the core of the pineapple.
- Slice thinly and mix with the other filling ingredients.
- Put all the filling on top of the pastry.
- It will be a big mound, but put everything including the juice from the filling.
- Top with another pastry, stretching to cover the bottom pastry.
- Seal the edge with a fork so it won't open up while baking.
- Using a knife, cut some slits on top as air vents.
- You can make a lattice top or shape the top pastry however you want!
- Bake in a preheated oven at 200C for 10 minutes.
- Lower the temperature to 180C and bake for 40 minutes.
- When the crust is golden brown, and the juice is bubbling around the edge, it's done.
- Vanilla ice cream is a must item for a piping hot pie!
- You can use this pastry to make an apple pie, chicken pot pie and various dishes.
- Variation: I made a chicken pot pie using this pastry.
- Please refer to "Soy Milk Bechamel Sauce in 5 minutes" for tips: https://cookpad.com/en/recipes/156891-5-minute-white-sauce-with-soy-milk
vanilla ice cream, flour, bread, shortening, salt, water, pineapple, flour, sugar, cinnamon powder
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/156206-easy-juicy-pineapple-pie (may not work)