Dutch Apple Pie

Dessert · Netherlands classic.

Ingredients

• 175g Butter
• 2 Egg Yolks
• 300g Flour
• 200g Sugar
• Pinch Salt
• 1 Cinnamon
• 100g Raisins
• 6 Apples
• 1 tablespoon Cold Water

Method

1. Add ingredients — Add the flour, 150 gr of the sugar, pinch of salt and 1 egg yolk in the bowl of a food processor.
2. Add ingredients — Cut the butter into small cubes and add to the bowl.
3. Continue cooking — Turn this into a firm dough. Don't over process, you do not want the dough to turn warm.
4. Continue cooking — Check if it sticks by pinching it between your fingers.
5. Roll out — Turn out onto a piece of plastic wrap. Make a round ball of it by using your hands and roll it into the plastic.
6. Continue cooking — Place into the fridge for half an hour to cool.
7. Cover and cook — Take a round baking tin of 22 cm diameter and cover this with baking paper.
8. Preheat the oven — Brush the sides with butter. Preheat the oven to 170˚C (340˚F)
9. Mix together — Cut the apple into cubes and mix this with the raisins, the left over sugar and the cinnamon.
10. Roll out — Place the cooled dough on a flat surface sprinkled with flour and roll out into a thin sheet.
11. Cover and cook — Place this into the baking tin and cover the bottom and the sides well.
12. Roll out — I usually just press it into the tin without rolling it out.

More Netherlands recipes

• Apple cake
• Apple Potato Mash (Hete bliksem)
• Bitterballen (Dutch meatballs)
• Boterkoek (Dutch Butter Cake)
• Dutch poffertjes (mini pancakes)
• Dutch Spiced Breakfast Cake (Ontbijtkoek)