Cheddar Cheese Apple Pie

Name: Cheddar Cheese Apple Pie
Prep time: 3 h 15 min
Cook time: 3 h 15 min
Total time: 3 h 15 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 Tbsps (1/4 stick) chilled unsalted butter, diced; 2 Tbsps cornstarch; 591 milliliters all-purpose flour; 5 Tbsps ice water, or more as needed; 1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice; 1 teaspoons grated fresh lemon zest; 1 kilograms Golden Delicious apples, peeled, cored, and thinly sliced; 1 teaspoons fine sea salt; 1 pinch Pinch fine sea salt; 237 milliliters coarsely grated sharp cheddar cheese, firmly packed; 79 milliliters sugar; 1 Tbsp sugar; 237 milliliters (2 sticks) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes

The recipe Cheddar Cheese Apple Pie could satisfy your American craving in about 3 hours and 15 minutes. This recipe serves 8. This recipe covers 10% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 538 calories, 8g of protein, and 31g of fat per serving. Head to the store and pick up butter, cornstarch, sea salt, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

For the crust: In a food processor, mix the flour, sugar, and salt and blend for 5 seconds.

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Crust

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

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Food Processor

Add the chilled butter and pulse until the dough looks like fine meal.

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Butter

Dough

Add the cheese and pulse 5 times.

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Cheese

Transfer the mixture to a large bowl and sprinkle with 5 tablespoons of ice water. Use a fork to fluff the mixture until moist clumps form.

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Water

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Bowl

Add more ice water by the tablespoonful if the mixture is dry. Gather the dough into a ball and divide in half. Shape each half into a disk. Wrap in plastic and chill at least 1 hour.

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Water

Dough

Wrap

For the filling: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. In a large bowl, mix the cornstarch and sugar, making sure there are no lumps in the cornstarch.

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Corn Starch

Sugar

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Oven

Mix in the apples, lemon juice, zest, and salt.

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Lemon Juice

Apple

Salt

On a lightly floured surface, roll out 1 of the dough disks into a 13-inch round.

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Dough

Roll

Transfer the dough to a 9-inch diameter deep-dish glass pie dish and brush the overhang with water.

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Water

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Pie Form

Pour the filling into the dough-lined dish and dot it with the 2 tablespoons butter. On the same lightly floured surface, roll out the second dough disk into a 12-inch round.

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Butter

Dough

Roll

Place the dough on top of the filling. Press the overhang of the bottom and top dough pieces together to seal.

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Dough

Cut the overhang to 1/2-inch. Fold the overhang under and crimp decoratively, forming a high-standing rim.

Cut 3 (2-inch) slits in the top of the crust to allow steam to escape.

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Crust

Bake the pie until golden brown, about 30 minutes. Cover the crust edge with foil and reduce the oven temperature to 375 degrees F.