Simple Homemade Pie Crust Recipe

Name: Simple Homemade Pie Crust Recipe
Total time: 40 mins
Ingredients: 2.5 cups all-purpose flour; 1 cup unsalted butter - chilled, cut into tablespoon-size pieces; 0.5 teaspoon salt; 7 tablespoons ice water; 1 tablespoon cider vinegar

My favorite homemade pie crust recipe uses a food processor to easily cut butter into flour, preventing overworking. Double the batch and freeze individually wrapped dough for future pies!

Total time40 mins
Prep time10 mins
Yield2 pie crusts, 8

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Ingredients

2.5 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup unsalted butter - chilled, cut into tablespoon-size pieces
0.5 teaspoon salt
7 tablespoons ice water
1 tablespoon cider vinegar

Instructions

Combine flour, butter, and salt in a food processor. Pulse until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs, approximately 10 (1-second) pulses.
Combine ice water and vinegar in a small bowl; stir to combine.
Pour half of the ice water mixture into the flour mixture. Pulse to combine, about 3 (1-second) pulses. Add the remaining ice water; pulse until the mixture begins to form a dough, around 8 (1-second) pulses.
Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface. Gently pat it into a circle, then divide it into two equal halves. Shape each half into a disc approximately 5-inches wide.
Wrap each disc tightly in plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for a minimum of 30 minutes before using.
Use this perfect pie crust in your preferred pie recipe.

Nutrition

Calories: 346 kcal
Fat Content: 23 g
Fiber Content: 1 g
Sugar Content: 0 g
Sodium Content: 150 mg
Protein Content: 4 g
Cholesterol Content: 61 mg
Carbohydrate Content: 30 g
Saturated Fat Content: 15 g
Unsaturated Fat Content: 0 g