Flaky Pie Dough Recipe

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Flaky Pie Dough
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  1. To mix the dough by hand, combine flour, salt and baking powder in a medium sized mixing bowl and stir well to mix. Cut butter into 1tablespoon pieces and add to dry ingredients. Toss once or twice to coat pieces of butter. Then using your hands or a pastry blender, break the butter into tiny pieces and pinch and squeeze it into the dry ingredients. Keep the mixture uniform by occasionally reaching down to the bottom of the bowl and mixing all the ingredients evenly together. Continue rubbing the butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles a coarseground cornmeal and no large pieces of butter remain visible.
  2. Sprinkle the minimum amount of water over the butter and flour mixture and stir gently with a fork the dough should begin holding together. If the mixture still appears dry and crumbly, add the remaining water, 1 teaspoon at a time for the smaller quantity of dough, a tablespoon at a time for the larger quantity, until the dough holds together easily.
  3. To mix the dough in the food processor, combine flour, salt and baking powder in work bowl fitted with metal blade. Pulse 3 times at 1second intervals to mix. Cut butter into 1 tablespoon pieces and add to work bowl. Process, pulsing repeatedly at 1second intervals, until the mixture is fine and powdery, resembles a coarseground cornmeal and no large pieces of butter remain visible about 15 pulses in all.
  4. Scatter the minimum amount of water on the butter and flour mixture and pulse 5 or 6 times the dough should begin holding together. If the mixture still appears dry and crumbly, add the remaining water, 1 teaspoon at a time for the smaller quantity of dough,one tablespoon at a time for the larger quantity, until the dough holds together easily.
  5. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and form it into a disk (two equal disks for the larger amount of dough). Sandwich the disk(s) of dough between two pieces of plastic wrap and press it into a 6inch circle. Refrigerate the dough until firm, or until you are ready to use it, at least 1 hour.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 20273.62 Kcal (84882 kJ)
Calories from fat 19790.92 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 2198.99g 3383%
Cholesterol 5830.8mg 1944%
Sodium 2051.35mg 85%
Potassium 1086.16mg 23%
Total Carbs 173.51g 58%
Dietary Fiber 6.85g 27%
Protein 49.83g 100%
Vitamin A 27.1mg 904%
Iron 11.5mg 64%
Calcium 781.7mg 78%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 658.51 Kcal (2757 kJ)
Calories from fat 642.83 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 71.43g 3383%
Cholesterol 189.39mg 1944%
Sodium 66.63mg 85%
Potassium 35.28mg 23%
Total Carbs 5.64g 58%
Dietary Fiber 0.22g 27%
Protein 1.62g 100%
Vitamin A 0.9mg 904%
Iron 0.4mg 64%
Calcium 25.4mg 78%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 587.9
    Points
  • 588
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low sodium,
  • sugar free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Total Fat

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