Vetted Recipes

Chef's Apple Pie

Ingredients

  • 3 cups corn flour
  • 2 1/3 cups flour
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 4 sticks unsalted butter, very cold and cut into pieces
  • 3/4 cup cold (iced) water
  • 6 golden delicious apples, peeled, cored, wedged
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
  • Pinch nutmeg
  • Pinch cumin
  • Juice and zest of 1 lemon
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 stick unsalted butter

Instructions

  1. Combine half of dry ingredients into a food processor. Add half of butter pieces into mixture and pulse until it resembles coarse meal. Turn out into a bowl. Rpeat with remaining half of ingredients. Add ice water to bowl with dough. Press together and divide corn crust into 2 equal parts. One will be used for this pie, and the other refrigerate for future use. Press 3/4 of crust into a pie dish and refrigerate for 20 minutes. Rest of crust will be for crumbling on top of pie later.;
  2. Combine all of the ingredients for the filling, except butter, and pour into pie crust. Crumble rest of crust mixture over the top and dot with unsalted butter. Bake in a preheated oven at 375 degrees for 35 to 50 minutes, until top is golden and bubbling Yield: 10 servings;

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