easy fresh cherry pie recipe /marudhuskitchen

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Total Time 55

Servings 4 -5

Ingredients

For the filling:

Fresh red cherries pitted and chopped - 200 gms
Castor sugar - 60 gms
Corn flour or maida - 2 tbsp
Lemon juice - 1 tbsp
Soft butter a tiny bit optional

For the pie dough:

All purpose flour/maida - 100 gms
Butter ice cold - 55 gms
Cold water - 1 tbsp or as needed
Salt a pinch
Powdered sugar for dusting

Instructions

For the pie dough:

Mix flour and salt then add butter cubes and pinch it to bring to a bread crumb consistency.
Then add a tablespoon of cold water and make it a soft pliable dough.
Cover it and keep it in fridge for 30 minutes.

For filling:

Mix pitted cherrys with sugar ,cornflour, lemon juice, butter mix it altogether and keep.

Baking:

Take a pie tin and keep ready.
Take out the dough from fridge roll the dough using rolling pin by dusting the dough with maida then and there.
Transfer the rolled dough carefully to the pie dish and pinch off the extras as shown in the picture.
To cover the pie roll the dough in the same way and make strips and keep ready.
Fill the pie tin with filling and close with the strips in criss cross pattern.
In-between preheat the oven at 180 degrees and when preheated bake the pie for 30 minutes and we are done.
Take out from the mold after some time then dust with powdered sugar and enjoy.

Notes

The pie dough should be soft and pliable and not sticky.
The butter for the pastry should not be soft it should be good enough to make it as bread crumb texture.
The oven temperature differs so bake it as needed till the crust becomes golden.
Adding butter to the filling is purely optional.
My cherrys were sweet enough so the sugar added complimented each other well.