Recipe: Delicious Basic Pie Pastry (Pate Brisee)

Basic Pie Pastry (Pate Brisee).

You can have Basic Pie Pastry (Pate Brisee) using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Basic Pie Pastry (Pate Brisee)

1. You need 2 1/2 cup of all purpose flour.
2. You need 1 tsp of salt.
3. Prepare 1 tsp of sugar.
4. You need 1 cup (2 stick) of cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces.
5. It's 1/4 cup of to 1/2 cup ice water.

Basic Pie Pastry (Pate Brisee) instructions

1. Pulse flour, salt and sugar in a food processor. Cut butter into small pieces and add to good processor. Pulse just until mixture resembles coarse meal, with some larger pieces remaining, about 10 seconds..
2. Drizzle 1/4 cup ice water evenly over mixture, and pulse until the dough just begins to hold together. Pinch off a piece of dough with your finger, it should just hold together.when squeeze without being wet, sticky or crumbly. Add up to 1/4 cup more water, by the table spoon, if is necessary.
3. Here is after adding water.
4. Turn the dough onto plastic wrap. Use your hands to quickly gather wrap to shape the dough into balls ; flatten slightly, unwrap, rewrap loosely, leaving half an inch of air space around the dough, roll to 1/2 inch thick filling space. Refrigerate until dough is firm, 1 hour or up to 1 day..
5. Rolling out the dough : if is necessary, let the dough sit at room temperature 10 mins to soften. On a slightly floured surface, roll dough working from center out to edges. Once the dough is rolled out to its proper dimension, roll it back up over the pin.carefully unroll to drape the dough over the pie plate, and gently press to fit it into dish.