Gluten Free Pie Crust Recipe
recipe courtesy of Whole Foods Market
This holiday season, it’s important to remember our guests who are gluten intolerant! Crave Catering offers tons of gluten free options for your guests, whether at your holiday party, wedding, anniversary or New Year’s Bash. We can tailor ANY menu to be gluten free!
Whole Foods Market has an amazing selection of gluten free products as well and has very knowledgeable Team Members to help out with any questions you may have. Here’s a recipe for an easy pie crust that will hold up to anything from quiches to pies!
- 1/3 cup potato starch, plus extra for dusting
- 1/3 cup tapioca flour
- 1/3 cup millet flour
- 1/3 cup almond meal
- 1 tablespoon powdered sugar (optional)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) cold butter, cut into small pieces
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Put potato starch, tapioca flour, millet flour, almond meal, sugar and salt into a food processor and pulse a few times to combine. Add butter and pulse again until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add egg and pulse until completely combined to make a slightly sticky dough.
Turn dough out onto a large sheet of waxed paper dusted with potato starch. Sprinkle potato starch over dough and knead gently, working in about 2 more tablespoons potato starch, until dough holds together without being sticky but is still very pliable. Using your fingertips, press dough into a 10-inch circle.
Invert a 9-inch pie pan on top of the dough then quickly flip over both the pan and the dough so that the dough now rests in the pan. Gently peel away and discard wax paper and press dough into pie plate, patching it together, if needed. Crimp and trim the edges as desired then prick sides and bottom all over with a fork.
Line crust with parchment paper and fill with pie weights or dried beans. Bake until crust is just set and slightly dry around the edges, about 15 minutes. Remove parchment paper and pie weights, fill with pie filling and bake as needed. Alternately, for a pie that requires a pre-baked crust, return to oven and bake until cooked through, about 15 minutes more.
