Sourdough pie crust. Sourdough Pie Crust is made with discard sourdough starter, flour and butter. Use up your excess sourdough starter in this pie crust recipe for a tender, flavorful sourdough pastry. This crust is surprisingly tasty with all sorts of pie filling recipe and makes a dynamite sourdough quiche crust too.
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My sourdough pie crust recipe is based on a traditional all-butter pastry or pâte brisée.
I have substituted sourdough starter for part of the flour and all of the liquid.
Sourdough discard helps keep this pie crust tender.
You can cook Sourdough pie crust use 5 ingredients and 2 the steps. Here guides how you make it.
The main ingredient Sourdough pie crust as follows:
- Provide 250 g of flour of choice.
- Prepare 1 tb of salt.
- You need 1 tb of sugar (optional).
- Prepare 130 g of butter.
- Provide 130 g of sourdough starter.
No one likes a tough pie crust. As the crust bakes there is a tiny bit of lift from the natural yeast in the sourdough starter. I find that lift helps make the crust even flakier as the air pockets in the dough poof up a bit and separate the layers of dough. This recipe for easy pie crust uses sourdough starter and gives you a recipe for a starter if you can't find one.
Steps Sourdough pie crust
- Add flour, salt and sugar to a bowl and incorporate the butter (cold). A food processor might be easier to use to mix the ingredients..
- Add the starter and mix well. Rest in fridge for aprox 7 hours before use..
The starter recipe is one I modified from an existing recipe I found. The pie crust recipe is based on a recipe for sticky buns my mom had from years ago. I modified it to make pie crust. It is so much easier (in my opinion) than starting with flour and shortening. Sourdough Pie Crust has been on my back burner for some time now!