Make-Ahead Fruit Pie Filling

Name: Make-Ahead Fruit Pie Filling
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 kilograms firm-ripe apricots, peaches, or plums; 59 milliliters About all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon or mace; 1 Tbsp lemon juice; 0 teaspoons salt; 118 milliliters About sugar

Make-Ahead Fruit Pie Filling might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe serves 8. This recipe covers 8% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains about 3g of protein, 1g of fat, and a total of 145 calories. If you have lemon juice, salt, ground cinnamon, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is a good option if you're following a vegan diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

Cut each of the apricots lengthwise into quarters (sixths if they're very large), discarding pits. (If using peaches, peel them and cut into thin wedges. If using plums, cut fruit into 1/2-inch slices.) You should have about 8 cups fruit total.

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Apricot

Peach

Fruit

Plum

In a large bowl, gently mix fruit, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 cup flour (see notes), lemon juice, cinnamon, and salt. Taste fruit and add more sugar if desired (up to 3/4 cup total).

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Lemon Juice

Cinnamon

All Purpose Flour

Fruit

Sugar

Salt

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Bowl

Line a 9-inch pie pan with a 20-inch-long sheet of foil (there should be about 5 inches of overhang on each side of the pan). Line the foil with a 20-inch-long piece of plastic wrap.

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Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Pie Form

Aluminum Foil

Frying Pan

Pour fruit into plastic wrap; pull edges together and fold over to seal, then repeat to seal foil over plastic. Freeze up to 3 months, removing from pie pan, if desired, after filling is hard, in about 8 hours.

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Fruit

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Pie Form

Aluminum Foil

From freezer to oven

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Oven

To bake the pie, unwrap frozen filling and place in a 9-inch pie pan lined with an unbaked crust; cover with top crust, crimp edges to seal, and cut small slits in top to vent.

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Crust

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Oven

Pie Form

Place on a foil-lined baking sheet.

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Baking Sheet

Aluminum Foil

Bake pie in a 375 regular or convection oven until crust is browned and filling is bubbling in the center, 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours. (If crust gets too brown before filling is bubbling, cover edges loosely with foil.)

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Crust

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Oven

Aluminum Foil

If baking a fresh pie, after mixing filling in step 2, pour directly into unbaked pastry, cover, crimp, and slit.

Bake for about 1 hour.

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Oven