Southwestern Recipes
Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie
Ingredients
Flaky Crust
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons granulated sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup chilled solid vegetable shortening, cut into pieces
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoon chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- About 10 tablespoon ice water
Filling
- 3 1/2 cups 1/2-inch thick slices trimmed rhubarb (1 1/2 pounds untrimmed)
- 3 1/2 cups strawberries, hulled and halved
- 1/2 cup packed golden brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 large egg yolk, beaten, to blend with 1 teaspoon water (for glaze)
Instructions
- Combine flour, sugar and salt in a food processor or blender. Using
the pulse feature, cut in shortening and butter until a coarse meal
forms. Blend in enough ice water, 2 tablespoons at a time, to form
moist clumps. Gather dough into a ball; cut in half. Flatten each
half into a disk. Wrap separately in plastic wrap; refrigerate until
firm, about 1 hour.
- Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Combine first 7 ingredients in a large
bowl; toss gently to blend.
- Roll out 1 dough disk on a floured work surface to a 13-inch round.
Transfer to a 9-inch diameter glass pie dish. Trim excess dough,
leaving a 3/4-inch overhang.
- Roll out second dough disk on a lightly floured surface to a 13-inch
round. Cut into fourteen 1/2-inch wide strips. Spoon filling into
crust. Arrange 7 dough strips atop filling, spacing evenly. Form
lattice by placing remaining dough strips in opposite direction
atop filling, trim ends of dough strips even with overhang of bottom
crust. Fold strip ends and overhang under, pressing to seal. Crimp
edges decoratively.
- Brush glaze over crust. Transfer pie to a baking sheet.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
- Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F.
- Bake pie until golden and filling thickens, about 1 hour 25 minutes.
- Transfer pie to a cooling rack to cool completely.