Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Preparar

1. 🥄Pie Crust: In a food processor, place the flour, salt, and sugar and process until combined.
2. 🔥Add the butter and process until the mixture resembles coarse

Pasos

1. 🔥meal (about 15 seconds).
2. 🧂Pour 1/4 cup (60 ml) water in a slow, steady stream, through the feed tube until the dough just holds together when pinched.
3. 🍳If necessary, add more water.
4. 🫇Do not process more than 30 seconds.
5. 🍽️Turn the dough onto your work surface and gather into a ball.
6. 🌿Divide the dough in half, flattening each half into a disk, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for about one hour before using.
7. ✨This will chill the butter and relax the gluten in the flour.
8. 🥄After the dough has chilled sufficiently, remove one portion of the dough from the fridge and place it on a lightly floured surface.
9. 🔥Roll the pastry into a 12 inch (30 cm) circle.
10. 🧂(To prevent the pastry from sticking to the counter and to ensure uniform thickness, keep lifting up and turning the pastry a quarter turn as you roll (always roll from the center of the pastry outwards).) Fold the dough in half and gently transfer to a 9 inch (23 cm) pie pan.
11. 🍳Brush off any excess flour and trim any overhanging pastry to an edge of 1/2 inch (1.5 cm).
12. 🫇Refrigerate the pastry, covered with plastic wrap, while you make the filling.
13. 🍽️Remove the second round of pastry and roll it into a 13 inch (30 cm) circle.

Preparar

1. 🧂Using a pastry wheel or pizza cutter, cut the pastry into about 3/4 inch (2 cm) strips.

Pasos

1. 🍳Place the strips of pastry on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet, cover with plastic wrap, and place in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes.

Preparar

1. 🫇Make the Strawberry Rhubarb Filling: Place the cut strawberries and rhubarb in a large bowl.
2. 🍽️In a small bowl mix together the cornstarch, sugar, and ground cinnamon.

Pasos

1. 🍽️Remove the chilled pie crust from the fridge.

Preparar

1. 🌿Sprinkle about 2 tablespoons of the sugar mixture over the bottom of the pastry crust.
2. ✨Add the remaining sugar mixture to the strawberries and rhubarb and gently toss to combine.
3. 🥄Pour the fruit mixture into the prepared pie shell.

Pasos

1. ✨Sprinkle the fruit with about 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and dot with 2 tablespoons of butter.
2. 🥄Remove the lattice pastry from the refrigerator and, starting at the center with the longest strips and working outwards, place half the strips, spacing about 1 inch (2.5 cm) apart, on top of the filling.
3. 🔥(Use the shortest pastry strips at the outer edges.) Then, gently fold back, about halfway, every other strip of pastry.
4. 🧂Take another strip of pastry and place it perpendicular on top of the first strips of pastry.
5. 🍳Unfold the bottom strips of pastry and then fold back the strips that weren't folded back the first time.
6. 🫇Lay another strip of pastry perpendicular on top of the filling and then continue with the remaining strips.
7. 🍽️Trim the edges of the pastry strips, leaving a 1 inch (2.5 cm) overhang.
8. 🌿Seal the edges of the pastry strips by folding them under the bottom pastry crust and flute the edges of the pastry.
9. ✨Brush the lattice pastry with milk and sprinkle with a little sugar.

Preparar

1. 🥄Cover and place in the refrigerator while you preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) and place the oven rack in the lower third of the oven.

Pasos

1. 🔥Put a baking sheet, lined with aluminum foil, on the oven rack (to catch any spills.)

Cocinar

1. 🧂Place the pie plate on the hot baking sheet and bake the pie for about 35 minutes and

Pasos

1. 🍳then, if the edges of the pie are browning too much, cover with a foil ring.

Cocinar

1. 🫇Continue to bake the pie for about another 10 minutes or until the crust is a golden brown color and the fruit juices begin to bubble.

Pasos

1. 🍽️Remove the pie from the oven and place on a wire rack to cool for several hours.

Servir

1. 🌿Serve at room temperature with softly whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

Pasos

1. ✨Leftovers can be stored in the refrigerator for about 3 days.
2. 🥄Reheat before serving.
3. 🔥This pie can be frozen.
4. 🧂Makes one 9 inch (23 cm) pie.