Homemade Apple Pie Recipe

Ingredients

For the dough:
• 4 1/2 cups flour
• 4 tsp sugar
• 1/4 tsp fine salt
• 14 tbsp unsalted butter, diced
• 1 large egg, lightly beaten with 2 tbsp cold water
For the filling:
• 2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 6 green apples
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 stick unsalted butter
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• A pinch of pecans, crushed
• 1 large egg, slightly beaten

Instructions

To make the dough:
1. In a medium sized bowl mix the flour, sugar, and salt. With your fingers, work the butter on the dry ingredients until you get a kind of yellow cornmeal mixed with small pieces of butter the size of a bean. Add the egg and mix the dough with a fork or by hand. If the dough is too dry, add a tablespoon of cold water to the mixture.
For the crust:
2. Cut the dough in half. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough into disks 11 to 12 inches in width. Place each half on parchment paper or waxed paper. Refrigerate for at least 10 minutes.
For the filling:
3. Empty the lemon juice into a medium sized bowl. Peel, cut in half, and remove the core of the apples. Cut each half into 8 wedges. Mix the apples with the lemon juice and add the sugar. Mix evenly.
4. Melt the butter over medium high heat in a large skillet. Add the apples and cook by stirring for 2 minutes until the sugar dissolves and the mixture begins to boil. Cover and reduce to medium low heat. Cook for an additional 7 minutes or until apples are softened and release most of their juices.
5. Strain the apples over a medium bowl to get all the juice. Return the juices to the pan and cook for 10 minutes over medium heat until the mixture thickens and slightly caramelizes.
6. Mix apples with reduced juice, pecans, and ground cinnamon in a medium bowl. Allow to cool completely.
To set up the pie:
7. Preheat oven to 375ºF.
8. Place one of the dough disks in a pie mold leaving about 1/2 inch over the edge of the mold. Add the apple filling over the dough.
9. With a pizza cutter, cut the second dough disc into 1/2 inch strips. Place the strips of dough spaced in an interweaved way over the entire pie. Cut the excess from the strips of dough and attach each with the bottom edge of the crust, with a fork decorate the edge. Brush the surface of the dough with the egg and then sprinkle with a little sugar.
10. Bake the apple pie for 50 to 60 minutes until the crust is golden. Cool for at least 3 hours before serving.

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