Jamie Oliver's appleberry pie

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Jamie Oliver's Appleberry pie
Average rating: 4 out of 5 star rating

You can't get better than homemade apple pie from Jamie's American Road Trip series - oozing with sweet apples under a crumbly pastry

  • Serves: 10

  • Skill level: Easy peasy

  • 5 a day portion1
  • Child friendly
  • Freezable
  • Editor's pick

Ingredients

You can make your pastry by hand, or simply pulse all the ingredients in a food processor.

Jamie Oliver

For the pastry:

  • 500g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
  • 100g icing sugar
  • A pinch of sea salt
  • 250g unsalted butter, chilled and cut into cubes
  • 2 large eggs, preferably free-range or organic
  • A splash of milk

For the filling:

  • 10 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and halved, 3 sliced
  • Juice and zest of 2 oranges
  • 7 heaped tbsp caster sugar
  • 400g huckleberries or blueberries
  • 1 heaped tbsp plain flour
  • 1 large egg, preferably free-range or organic, beaten
  • A small handful of demerara sugar
  • Vanilla ice cream, cream or custard, to serve (optional)
You'll also need:
  • A pie dish around 28cm in diameter

Method

  1. Sieve the flour, icing sugar and salt from a height into a large mixing bowl. Use your fingertips to gently work the cubes of butter into the flour and sugar until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Transfer a handful of this mixture to a separate bowl, rub it between your fingers to get larger crumbs, then put aside.
  2. Add the eggs and milk to the main mixture and gently work it together until you have a ball of pastry dough. Don't work it too much at this stage - you want to keep it crumbly and short.
  3. Sprinkle a little flour over the pastry, then wrap it in clingfilm and pop it into the fridge to rest for 1 hour.
  4. Meanwhile, put the apples into a large pan with the zest and juice of 1 orange, a splash of water and 5 tbsp of caster sugar. Cover the pan and simmer on a medium heat for 10 mins, until the apples have softened but still hold their shape. Remove from the heat and leave to cool.
  5. Scrunch a handful of berries in a bowl with the remaining caster sugar and the zest and juice of your remaining orange. Add the rest of the berries. Toss the cooled apples and their juices in a large bowl with the berries and the flour, then put aside.
  6. Preheat your oven to 180ºC, 350º or gas 4. Take your ball of pastry out of the fridge and let it come up to room temperature. Get your pie dish.
  7. Flour a clean surface and a rolling pin. Cut off a third of your pastry and put that piece to one side. Roll the rest into a circle just over 0.5cm thick, dusting with flour as you go. Roll the circle of pastry up over your rolling pin, then gently unroll it over the pie dish. Push it into the sides, letting any excess pastry hang over the edge.
  8. Tip in the fruit filling and brush all around the edge of the pastry with some of the beaten egg. Roll out the smaller ball of pastry about 0.5cm thick and use your rolling pin to lay it over the top of the pie. Brush it all over with more beaten egg, reserving a little. Sprinkle over the reserved crumble mixture and the demerara sugar. Fold the scruffy edges of pastry hanging over the sides back over the pie, sealing the edge by twisting or crimping it as you like.
  9. Brush these folded edges with your remaining beaten egg. Using a small, sharp knife, cut a cross into the middle of the pie.
  10. Place on the bottom of the oven and bake for 45 to 55 mins, until golden and beautiful. Serve with ice cream, cream or custard.
This recipe is from Jamie's America, £26, from Michael Joseph.Jamie's America is available from Amazon.co.uk

Nutritional information

Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.

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