India x USA
Chai spiced apple pie
Apple pie that smells exactly like your 5 pm cup of chai.
180 minTime
5 gProtein each
mildSpice
Chai in a pie dish3 chapters · 2 min readMake it your way
Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.
The original485kcal
5 gprotein
4 gfibre
180minutes
Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.
Ingredients
Method
6 steps- 1Rub 200 g of the butter into the maida, 10 g sugar and salt until you see pea sized bits. Add iced water a spoon at a time until the dough just holds. Halve, flatten into discs and chill 30 minutes.
- 2Boil 80 ml water with the tea leaves for 2 minutes until very strong. Strain.
- 3Peel, core and slice the apples. Toss them with the brown sugar, lemon juice, cornflour, cinnamon powder, dry ginger powder, cardamom, black pepper, grated nutmeg and the tea. Cook in a wide pan with the remaining 15 g butter for 6 to 8 minutes, then cool.
- 4Heat the oven to 200°C. Roll one disc to line a 23 cm pie dish. Fill with the apples. Roll the second disc, lay it over, seal and crimp the edges and cut steam vents.
- 5Brush with egg, sprinkle the remaining sugar and bake 20 minutes at 200°C, then 30 to 35 minutes at 180°C.
- 6Cool at least 1 hour before slicing.
Serve it like this
Serve a warm wedge with a scoop of vanilla ice cream melting at the edge and a pinch of cinnamon over.
