Flaky Pie Dough

Name: Flaky Pie Dough
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 9
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 296 milliliters all-purpose flour; 3 Tbsps ice water; 1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice; 0 teaspoons fine salt; 59 milliliters shortening, frozen and cut into small pieces; 5 Tbsps unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small pieces

Flaky Pie Dough is a vegetarian crust. This recipe serves 9. One portion of this dish contains approximately 2g of protein, 12g of fat, and a total of 169 calories. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour. If you have flour, salt, shortening, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Whisk together the flour and salt in a medium bowl.

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All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Whisk

Bowl

Add the shortening and butter and toss with your fingers until well coated in the flour mixture. Using a pastry blender or your fingers, cut the shortening and butter into the dry ingredients until reduced to pea-size pieces, about 4 to 5 minutes.

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Shortening

Butter

All Purpose Flour

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Blender

Drizzle in 3 tablespoons of the ice water and the lemon juice and mix just until the dough comes together. (

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Lemon Juice

Water

Dough

Add the last tablespoon of ice water if the dough is too dry, but don’t overwork the dough or it’ll become tough.)Form the dough into a flat disk. Wrap it tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour before rolling it out.

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Water

Dough

Wrap