Spread the Joy!
I love pies..I thought of making a pineapple pie because I had a ripe pineapple at home..This pie turned out really beautiful, buttery and sweet, it was delicious. I used my homemade shortcrust pastry recipe. It is a fool proof recipe, i use them for all my pies, tarts and stuffs like that..
Similar Recipes,
Apple Pie
Homemade Shortcrust Pastry
The sugar amount is entirely upto you,you could make it as sweet as you like.You could do exactly the same way with any filling as you like..
Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..
Preparation Time : 30 mins
Baking Time : 45 to 50 mins
Serves : 6 to 8
Baking Time : 45 to 50 mins
Serves : 6 to 8
Ingredients:
Basic Shortcrust Pastry – 1 batch (Recipe here)
Milk for brushing on top
Granulated Sugar – 1 tsp
For Filling:
Pineapple- 2 cup pureed
Pineapple – 1 cup chopped finely
Pineapple – 1 cup chopped finely
Sugar- 3/4 cup or more
Pineapple essence – 1/2 tsp
Lemon juice – 1 tsp
Cornflour / Cornstarch – 2 tblspn
Water – 2 tblspn
For Glaze:
Hot Water – 1 tblspn
Corn syrup / liquid Glucose / Honey – 1 tblspn
Method:
Preheat the oven for 200 degree C. Butter a pie dish well and set aside.
First make the filling, in a pan add pineapple puree, pineapple chunks ,sugar. Mix well. Cook this for 5 mins or so.
Add in Cornflour mixed with water and mix well. Add in essence and lemon juice…Mix these together and till it becomes a thick jam like consistency. Set aside to cool.
Take your pastry, Divide this into two equal portion. Roll it in round shape by placing it between two plastic sheet, slightly more than the pie plate…and place this in the well buttered pie crust and press it using your hands.
Remove the plastic wrap and spoon the filling in it.
Take the other dough and roll it exactly the same way as you did for the previous one.Cover the pie with this.
Make slashes over it, make some design with the leftover pastry, Brush the top with milk and sprinkle with sugar.
Bake this for 30 mins in 200 degree C, Now reduce the temp to 180 Degree C and bake for another 15 to 20mins. Remove it from oven and set aside.
Take hot water and liquid glucose in a bowl and mix well till it is melted.
Now brush with the baked pie with the glaze.
After they cool down slice them and serve room temperature or chilled.
Pictorial:
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| Take pineapple |
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| peel the skin |
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| chop them roughly |
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| take 3/4th of them in a blender |
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| puree them |
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| now take the remaining 1/4 of them and Chop them finely |
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| now take your other ingredients |
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| take pineapple puree, chopped pineapple in a kadai |
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| add in sugar |
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| mix well |
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| cook for few mins |
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| now it has thickened |
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| take cornflour in a bowl |
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| dissolve it with some water |
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| pour cornflour liquid in this |
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| mix well so it gets thick |
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| Add little lemon juice |
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| and few drops of pineapple essence |
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| mix well |
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| butter your pie dish |
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| take your shortcrust pastry..RECIPE HERE |
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| take the pastry |
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| Add caption |
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| Spread a sheet of plastic wrap |
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| place half of the pastry |
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| cover with another sheet of plastic |
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| roll it out |
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| roll pretty thinly |
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| check whether the pastry is bigger than the dish |
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| peel off the wrap |
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| take it carefully |
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| flip it over the pie dish |
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| press it carefully |
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| line the pie dish evenly |
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| peel off the plastic sheet |
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| spoon the pineapple filling |
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| roll the other sheet |
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| flip it over the filling |
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| peel off the plastic sheet |
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| cut off the excess pastry |
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| now start crimping the pastry |
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| like this |
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| done |
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| now take your leftover pastry |
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| roll it out |
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| take any mould |
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| press it over the pastry |
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| beautiful butterflies |
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| now brush some milk over the pastry |
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| make a slash over it, so the steam can escape |
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| place the butterflies over it |
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| sprinkle some granulated sugar over it |
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| Time to bake |
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| Pie is baked |
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| Now this step is optional, take little hot water in a pan |
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| take some liquid glucose, corn syrup, honey or golden syrup |
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| take a spoon |
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| dissolve it with the water |
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| now use a pastry brush |
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| brush all over the pastry |
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| this gives a nice shiny effect |
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| Done..Let it cool for 2 hours |
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| Slice and serve |
Spread the Joy!
if ur from delhi or nearby delhi(gurgaon, noida)..can u plz tell me where i can get pie plates, baking trays, etc…have been looking for these but cant find….
btw ur pineapple pie looks delicious!!!
the pie looks n am sure tastes equally delicious!!
Just where do these trolling bloggers get this stuff?
Acheter vimax en France.2011AVEF
hi shooting Star,
You can buy from ebay.in try from this seller http://myworld.ebay.in/bakersstuff
If the items you want are not available for sale, just inquire with the seller, he will be able to make it available for you.
thanks.
@avikaSame temp as i have mentioned.
Well explained recipe
Hi Arti,your recipes are amazing.thanks a lot.I wanted to ask how to measure GMs into cups as my pastry was crbling & I think it was due to the confusion of GMs to cups
@AnonymousAdd more butter if your pastry is crumbly
Hi Aarthi, can I use readymade pineapple crush for filling? Is it will come out good after backing?
@mona parekhu have to cook it with sugar and cornflour