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Gordon Ramsay Apple Pie Recipe

Gordon Ramsay Apple Pie Recipe

My Gordon Ramsay-style apple pie recipe — a pre-cooked filling, a blind-baked base, and a properly buttery pastry throughout.
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Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 55 minutes
Resting Time 15 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 50 minutes
Servings: 8 People
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: British
Calories: 420
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • Pastry:
  • 350 g plain flour
  • 200 g cold unsalted butter cubed
  • 50 g caster sugar
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 2 –3 tbsp cold water
  • 1 egg beaten
  • Filling:
  • 1 kg Bramley or cooking apples peeled and sliced
  • 100 g caster sugar
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1 tbsp cornflour
  • Juice of 1/2 lemon

Method
 

  1. Make pastry, rubbing butter into flour, adding sugar, yolk and water. Chill 30 minutes.
  2. Cook apples with sugar, spices and lemon juice 8–10 minutes.
  3. Thicken with cornflour paste, cook 2 minutes. Cool completely.
  4. Line pie dish with two-thirds of pastry, chill 15 minutes.
  5. Blind bake 12–15 minutes, remove beans, bake 5 minutes more.
  6. Fill with cooled apple mixture.
  7. Top with remaining pastry, seal, cut steam vents.
  8. Egg wash, bake at 200°C / 180°C fan / Gas 6 for 30–35 minutes.
  9. Rest 15 minutes before slicing.

Notes

Pre-cooking the filling and blind baking the base both help prevent a soggy bottom.
Chill the pastry at every stage for the crispest texture.
Bramley apples give the best soft, fluffy filling texture.
Freezes well for up to 3 months, baked or unbaked.