Italian crostata pie

Delicious shortbread pie with sweet filling! Italian crostata is cooked in the oven. To prepare such a pie, you will need butter or margarine. The dough is very convenient to knead in a blender. Only egg yolks are added to the base, and proteins can be used for other dishes. For baking, you will need a round shape with sides. Since there is butter in the dough, you can not lubricate the mold. For the filling, you need to take thick jam or jam. The pie can be served with hot coffee, tea or melted milk.

Ninel

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Composition / ingredients

servings:

Wheat flour

Butter

130

Egg yolks

Sugar

0.5

Jam

Salt

0.25

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 6 % 5 g

Fats 21 % 16 g

Carbohydrates 73 % 57 g

384 kcal

GI: 0 / 0 / 100

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 45 min

Step 1:
1. How to bake an Italian crostata pie? Prepare all the products. Sift the wheat flour, separate the yolks from the whites. The form for baking crostata should be dry and clean.
Step 2:
2. Remove the butter from the refrigerator, cut into pieces and place in a blender. Add salt and wheat flour, stir the products.
Step 3:
3. Pour granulated sugar into the bulk. Grind the mass until smooth.
Step 4:
4. Then add the yolks, stir the dough first in a blender.
Step 5:
5. Then transfer the oily mass to a board sprinkled with flour. Knead a soft elastic dough. Turn on the oven, preheat it to 180 degrees.
Step 6:
6. From the dough, pinch off a piece for decoration. Roll out the main part into a layer, place it in a mold and make the sides. And in order for the pie to be easily extracted, it is recommended to put strips of parchment paper in the form.
Step 7:
7. Prick the dough with a fork, then spread the apple jam evenly. For such pies, it is advisable to use thick jam, jam or jam. If there is jam with a watery consistency, then add starch to it.
Step 8:
8. Roll out the remaining dough into a thin oblong tortilla. Use a special knife to make strips about 5 mm wide.
Step 9:
9. Lay out the strips on the filling, forming a pattern. Put the pie in the oven, it is baked for approximately 20-25 minutes until golden brown.
Step 10:
10. Cool the cake, carefully remove it from the mold and put it on a plate. Cut the crostata into pieces with a sharp knife and serve to the table. Bon appetit!

Delicious shortbread pie with sweet filling, perfect for a family tea party. The dough turns out crumbly, sweet and perfectly harmonizes with fruit or berry jam. Such a pie can be put on a festive table.

All the secrets of baking shortbread dough, why it turns out dry, hard or tasteless and how to avoid it, read the article about crumbly and tender shortbread dough .

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use the useful information about the features of ovens !

Be prepared for the fact that you may need more or less flour than indicated in the recipe. Focus not on the amount of flour, but on the desired consistency of the dough. To avoid mistakes, read about flour and its properties!

Important! The size of the mold must match the number of ingredients. If you do not have a shape of a diameter suitable for the recipe or you want to bake a pie or a cake of a larger or smaller size, an article about how to make the right calculations and not make a mistake will help, how to choose the shape of the desired diameter .