Remember the phrase "easy as pie"? It exists for a reason. Homemade pie crust is easy with this simple recipe – plus it uses whole grains. Nice.
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- 1 1/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 Tbsp. sugar (optional)
- 6 Tbsp. butter, chilled and cut into small pieces
- 1/3 cup buttermilk
Preparation:
- In a large bowl, combine flour, salt, baking powder, and sugar (if using). Drop butter pieces into bowl.
- Use your fingers, a fork, a pastry cutter, or two knives to work butter into flour mixture until it resembles cornmeal with stray pea-size pieces of butter in it.
- Pour buttermilk over mixture and stir until it comes together (add a tablespoon of water if it remains too dry to pull into a dough).
- Turn mixture onto a well-floured work surface. Knead once or twice to create a ball of dough. Pat into a disk shape, wrap in plastic wrap, and chill at least 30 minutes and up to 3 days.
- Place disk of dough on a well-floured surface and roll into an 11- to 12-inch circle, turning dough 90° between each pass of the rolling pin to make sure dough doesn't stick (lift dough and re-flour surface is dough starts to stick at all).
- Fold dough in half over rolling pin. Use pin to lift dough half-way over pie plate or tart pan. Let dough drop into pan (if you push or force it into place it will only shrink back to its original shape when baked). Cover and chill until ready to use.
