Basic Shortcrust Pastry Recipe (Sweet & Savoury)
Shortcrust Pastry is a versatile pastry dough which is used to make so many pastries, pies, tarts. Learn how to make shortcrust pastry with step by step instructions. In this post I am going to share basic eggless pastry dough which is both sweet and savoury.
Ingredients
Sweet Shortcrust Pastry Dough Recipe
- 400 grams All Purpose Flour
- 200 grams Unsalted Butter (must be cold)
- a pinch Salt
- ½ cup Sugar powdered
- as needed Cold Water
Savoury Shortcrust Pastry Recipe
- 400 grams All Purpose Flour
- 200 grams Unsalted Butter (must be cold)
- 2 teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Black Pepper
- as needed Cold Water
Instructions
Sweet Short Crust Pastry Recipe
- In a mixing bowl add flour,salt,sugar and mix well.
- Add in chopped cold butter and rub with your fingers till it forms coarse crumbs.
- Add a spoonful of water and mix well using a spoon, if it is too dry add spoonful more water. Now form this to a dough. Dont knead too much.
- Cover it with plastic wrap and chill it in the fridge for 1 hour.
- Now you can use this for any recipe as you like..
Savoury Short Crust Pastry Recipe
- Take flour, salt, pepper in a bowl and mix well.
- Add cold butter and rub the butter into flour.
- Add in cold water and mix well to a dough.
- Wrap the dough in plastic and chill for 30 min before using.
- You can use this dough for quiche, savoury tarts or pies.
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Notes
- Reducing the butter quantity will result a hard crust. So use butter as mentioned.
- Don't over knead the dough, else the gluten will develop in the dough which results in chewy crust.
- Use cold water for kneading the dough and cold butter, this will give flaky crust.
- This dough has a little more sugar,this dough is best for making sweet filling pies or any sweet preparations.
- If you are making it for savoury don't use the sugar.
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