Shortcrust Pastry Recipe

 

Since I am interested in quiches, it did not take me long before I decided to learn to make the pastry by myself. Whenever I bought a pastry sheet at the supermarket, my little conscience told me: “What if we do it ourselves? Sure it takes less than ten minutes… There is no need to buy packaged, right? ” However, at first I always ended up covered in flour. Yes, it’s true, I was not good at kneading… 🙁 But I found another way faster, easier and cleaner: Using a food processor.

Another advantage of making the pastry at home is that you can use quality butter, instead of the bad fat used in industrial preparations.

Shortcrust Pastry Recipe

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Serves: 4 Time: 1 h 30 m Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients

• 125 g of sifted flour
• 60 g of cold butter, cut into pieces
• 1 small egg
• 1 dash of cold milk
• Salt and pepper

Directions

1. Put the flour and butter in a food processor.
2. Mix until obtaining an homogeneous mixture. As if it were sand.
3. Salt and pepper to taste.
4. Add the egg and a dash of milk.
5. Mix again until the liquids are integrated.
6. Knead a little by hand until you obtain an homogeneous dough. It does not need too much kneading.
7. Coat with plastic film and refrigerate for at least half an hour before using.

Hints, Tips, and Tricks

• In step 3, you can add other spices and/or other flavors.
• To make the pastry for a sweet pie, you can add sugar instead of salt and pepper, cocoa powder or grated lemon zest.

 

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