Apple Pie (Eggless & Vegan)
Crafted entirely from scratch, my homemade apple pie recipe is not only delightfully simple and flavorful but also happens to adhere to a completely vegan approach.
Ingredients
For The Pie Crust
- 1 cup whole wheat flour – 120 grams
- ½ cup all-purpose flour – 62.5 grams
- ¼ cup olive oil or sunflower oil
- ⅓ cup water – at room temperature or add as required
- ½ teaspoon salt or as required
For Apple Pie Filling
- 2 apples (medium-sized) – peeled, cored and sliced
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon (cinnamon powder)
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg or grated nutmeg (nutmeg powder)
- 2 tablespoons whole wheat flour
- 2 tablespoons demerara sugar (or brown sugar or raw sugar or white sugar)
- 1 to 2 teaspoons oil or vegan butter – to top the filling
Other Ingredients
- 1 to 2 pinches ground cinnamon (cinnamon powder) – for sprinkling
- 1 to 2 pinches raw sugar or brown sugar or white sugar – for sprinkling
- 2 to 3 teaspoons soy milk or any nut milk – for glazing
Instructions
Making Pie Crust
- Seive or mix all the dry ingredients together – whole wheat flour, all purpose flour and salt.
- Add the olive oil and with your finger tips combine the oil in the flour evenly to get a breadcrumb consistency. This step should be done properly and this results in giving a flaky texture to the crust. The whole mixture should look like breadcrumbs.
- Add water in parts binding the whole mixture together. Don't knead. Gather everything and form a dough.
Making Apple Pie Filling
- Peel, core and slice the apples.
- Mix the ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, demerara sugar and whole wheat flour into the apples.
- Preheat your oven at 180 degrees celsius (356 degrees Fahrenheit) for 15 minutes.
- Grease your pie pan with olive oil.
Assembling Pie
- Divide the dough into two or four equal parts depending on the size of your pie pans.
- Take one portion of the dough on a dusted work surface. Use a rolling pin to roll the dough out into an even layer that is about ¼ inch thick.
- Place one of the rolled pie crust gently on the greased pan and press it towards the bottom and the sides.
- Arrange the apple filling evenly on the bottom pie crust.
- Top the apple slices with a few drops of olive oil or dots of vegan butter.
- Cover the pan with another rolled pie crust and fold the edges of the top crust over and under the bottom edges. Flute the edges.
- Cut through the top pie crust with a fork or knife from top so as to allow steam to pass while baking.
- You can also cut strips from the rolled dough and create a lattice pie crust as shown in the video below.
- Brush with soy milk or any nut milk and sprinkle raw sugar and ground cinnamon from the top.
Baking
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees Celsius (356 degrees Fahrenheit) for 50 to 60 minutes or until the crust has become golden and crisp.
- Serve the apple pie warm or when at room temperature.
Storing
- You can refrigerate or freeze the pies. Wrap the apple pies when they completely cool down in a cling film or store them in an air tight container and refrigerate or freeze.
Nutrition
Calories: 249kcalCarbohydrates: 37gProtein: 4gFat: 10gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 197mgPotassium: 157mgFiber: 4gSugar: 11gVitamin A: 33IUVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 13mgIron: 1mg
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