B for Baking #11

Pies are my most favourite pastry to make because they're easy to do and good to eat.

Since baking with non-wheat flours, I have only tried making pies twice and failed both times. It was so disheartening. 

Nevertheless, I am not one to give up easily. So, the other day, I was determined to try again.

This time around, I eliminated an ingredient which I think made the previous failed pies chewy and it worked. Even my sister gave her thumbs up.

The flours I used are ~ equal parts of pearl millet flour, brown rice flour and potato starch and I eliminated glutinous rice flour.

So for the full recipe...


Pies

What you need to have:

Ingredients
450g non-wheat flour
1 Tsp psyllium husk
1 Tsp golden flax seed meal
3 Tsp rolled oats flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 tsp raw sugar
1/2 lb cold unsalted butter (1 block of 227g butter)
5 Tsp cold water

Apparatus
kitchen scale
measuring spoons
medium-sized bowl
pastry blender
plastic sheets
rolling pin
pastry cutter
pastry moulds
oven
wire rack

What you need to do:

1. In a medium-sized bowl, mix all dry ingredients together.

2. Cut butter into chunks and with the help of a pastry blender, combine butter and flour until it resembles bread crumbs.

3. Add a tablespoon of cold water at a time into the mixture to form a soft dough.

4. Rest the dough for 30 minutes.

5. Roll out dough in between sheets of plastic ~ 2.5 mm thick.

6. Using a pastry cutter, cut out dough according to the size of the pastry moulds.

7. Fill the moulds with your favourite savoury or sweet fillings.

8. Arrange the already filled moulds on a tray.

9. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 190 degrees for 25 minutes or until pastry is golden brown.

10. Remove from oven and cool completely on wire rack.

11. Freeze leftovers in an airtight container.


Enjoy!

my mini pies
front: mutton kheema pie,
middle: beef Bolognese pizza pie
back: spicy chicken fillet chunks pizza pie