WALNUT PIE – A Pie For All Your Sweet Cravings

Walnut Pie is a sweet caramel & walnut filling in sweet single crust pastry dough casing. This is very amazing, caramelized walnuts, sweetness of caramel sauce and crusty dough will altogether a very beautiful burst of flavors. This is one of my favorite pie as well and easy to make.

What is Pie?
A Pie is a baked dish consisting of a pastry dough casing filled with sweet or savory ingredients. They are defined by their crust. A filled Pie (Single crust or bottom Crust), Top crust pie and a two crust pie.

What is Blind Baking?
Blind baking is also called as pre-baking. Blind Baking is a process of baking a pie crust or any other pastry without a filling.

Recipe For Pie Dough

Ingredients

• Flour – 150 gm
• Butter -70 gm
• Sugar -60 ml
• Water -10 ml

• Cream sugar and butter.
• Rubin flour with the creamed mixture.
• Add Water in order to form dough & knead gently.
• Line the pie rings and dock and keep it in the fridge to rest.
• Blind bake at 150 for 8 mins.

• Eggs – 1 no
• Sugar- 50 gm
• Walnuts- 100 gm

• Caramelized sugar & pour silicone mat or oiled surface.
• Roast walnuts at 160°c for 6 mins.
• Blend the caramel in to form a powder.
• Wisk eggs till slightly fluffy. Add caramel power to the egg and continue whisking till thicker consists yet pour-able.

• Arrange the roasted walnuts in the tart distributing all around equally.
• Pour the pie mix on the walnuts.
• Bake at 150 for 15-20 mins.
• Demold and let it cool.

• Ingredients
• Sugar – 50 gm
• Cream (Full fat) – 50 ml
• Butter – 5 gm

• Caramelize sugar till light brown turn the heat down add cold butter and wisk
• Turn off the flame. Pour in the cream wisk it turn on the flame cook till slightly thicker.

• Brush the walnuts with honey to glaze it for Garnish.
• Pipe the warm caramel around the walnut give it a shake gently.
• Have it slightly warm.