APPLE PIE

Preparation time: 30 min
cooking time: 10-15 mins 
Serves: 4

Ingredients :

For pastry dough

1 cup all purpose flour

1/3 cup butter

1/8 tsp salt

1 tsp powdered sugar

 3-4 tbsp chilled water

For the filling:

2 tsp sugar

1/8 tsp ground cinnamon

a pinch of salt

1 tsp all purpose flour

2  tart apples peeled & diced

2 tsp butter
  

Method:

1. Combine ingredients listed under pastry dough i.e. flour,sugar and salt in food processor; pulse once or twice. (Whisk together if you haven’t got a food processor)
2. Add butter and turn on machine, processing about 10 seconds or until the butter and flour are blended and the mixture resembles bread crumbs.
3. Place mixture into a bowl and sprinkle with 3 tbsp of ice water.
4. Use a wooden spoon to gradually gather the mixture into a ball; if the mixture seems too dry, add another ½ tbsp ice water and mix until you can gather into a ball with your hands.
5. Wrap ball of dough in plastic wrap, flatten into a disk and place in freezer for 10 minutes (or 30 minutes in fridge) to ease rolling. At this point you could also refrigerate the dough for a day or two, or freeze it almost indefinitely.
6. Heat oven 180 C
7. Mix sugar, cinnamon flour and salt in large bowl. Stir in apples.
8. Unwrap dough, lightly sprinkle its top with flour and roll out onto a lightly floured board or countertop; if the dough is too hard, let it sit for a minute or two (it should give a little when you press your fingers into it). 
9. Take muffin moulds and line in the moulds with rolled pastry dough , prick with fork.
10. Fill in the apple filling.
11. Roll some more pastry dough and cut strips out of it, cover the filling with strips,trim overhanging edges.
12. Repeat the process and make more pies.
13. Bake for 10 minutes or until crust is brown and juice begins to bubble through slits in crust. Serve warm with a scoop of vanila ice-cream.