Apple pie is a delicious dessert with crust pastry base and apple and paneer filling inside. It is sweet and lovely with cooked apple and are topped with sweet paneer paste,covered with strips of pastry. They are then baked. They can be served alone or with a scoop of ice-cream or whipped cream.
INGREDIENTS FOR PREPARATION
For the crust pastry
- All purpose flour: 2 cup
- Butter: 125 g
- Powdered sugar: 2 tbs
- Salt: a pinch
- Cold water: 3 tbs
- Apple: 4
- Sugar: 1 cup
- Paneer: 200 g
- Milk: 1/4 cup
- Bread crumbs: 1/2 cup
- Melted chocolate: 2 tbs
- Egg white: 1
- Cinnamon powder:1/4 tsp
- Melt butter.
- Mix well all purpose flour, butter and salt with your hands till they resemble bread crumbs.
- Now add powdered sugar and combine well.
- Knead them with little water to get a smooth dough.
- Keep it aside.
- Peel off the apple and cut it into small pieces.
- Cook them with 1 cup of water and 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder.
- Cook till apple pieces get cooked well.
- Now add 1/2 cup sugar and cook for 5 more minutes.
- Add bread crumbs to it, mix well and turn off the flame.
- Prepare paste with paneer by grinding them with milk and remaining sugar.
- Take 3/4 of dough, roll it into thin sheet like chappathi.
- Take a round microwavable glass dish or pie dish and place the rolled sheet into it in such a way that it covers bottom and sides of the dish.
- Make holes allover with a fork.
- Bake it in 180 degree celsius for 15 minutes.
- After baking, fill it with the prepared apple filling.
- Top it with paneer paste.
- Now place melted chocolate on top by keeping little gap between each 1/2 tsp.
- You can also use mixed fruit jam instead of chocolate.
- Roll the remaining dough and cut them into strips .
- Cover the top of pie with the strips in lattice woven shape.
- Brush egg white on top.
- Keep in microwave and bake at 160 degree celsius for half an hour or till the top turns golden brown.
