Healthy good tasting pie crust recipe?

[sylvie]

I have enough late apples to make a pie.
I'd like this one to be made as healthy as possible and still taste good. No lard, shortening or the like. No graham crackers.
Is it possible to make an extra virgin olive oil crust or something similar without it baking soggy or hard as a rock?

 

[DrakeMaiden]

I use butter. I doubt oil would work. There is supposedly a healthy vegetable shortening on the market, but I haven't tried it.

I bet you could make an apple crisp with oil though.

 

[coopy]

Good old fashioned lard makes the best crust. You can put half butter and half shortening and make a good pie crust. I wouldn't use the oil. Your crust more than likely will be tough.

 

[miss_thenorth]

Pie crust and healthy can't be used in the same sentence . My suggestion would be apple crisp.

 

[keljonma]

I have enough late apples to make a pie.
I'd like this one to be made as healthy as possible and still taste good. No lard, shortening or the like. No graham crackers.
Is it possible to make an extra virgin olive oil crust or something similar without it baking soggy or hard as a rock?

You wouldn't want to use olive oil unless you are making a savory pie! The flavor would overpower a fruit pie, imo.

 

[me&thegals]

I have just the one for you!!! I use it all the time for fruit pies, chocolate pies or quiches. I use it with olive oil or canola oil. And whole-wheat pastry flour or whole-wheat flour. It is very nutritious, very easy and tasty. So, presenting (drum roll, please):

Whole-wheat, no-roll piecrust
1 cups flour (whole-wheat pastry flour best, whole-wheat flour okay)
1 tsp sugar
tsp salt
cup oil
3 tbsp milk

Place all ingredients in pie pan. Mix with fork until well blended and pat into the pan. Push pastry up the sides and form a nice edge with thumb and finger. Prick to avoid bubbling during baking.

 

[enjoy the ride]

A lot of times I use a layer of granola or almonds or hazelnuts for the bottom- works for more solid pies to add a little crunch without a pie crust. I wonder if a mixture of walnuts made into flour plus sugar and cinnamon would work for apple pie- the walnuts have a lot of oil in them- might hold together- have never tried such a thing but why not- it will taste good no matter what. Chestnuts make a flour also. Might need some butter to really serve out without having to scoup it onto plates though.

 

[me&thegals]

My mom used to make one like that, too. It was chopped walnuts, a couple Table butter and probably about 1/4 cup sugar, stirred well and pressed into the bottom of a pan. Very yummy!

 

[annmarie]

accidentally duplicated post below!

 

[annmarie]

Here are 2 more oil pie crust recipes. One is for a double crust that you can roll out, the other is a single crust press-in recipe. I don't use shortening in anything so this is how I always make my pie crusts. (I use canola oil in these, as canola is the other healthy oil besides olive, but has a milder flavor.)

2 crust roll-out oil pastry
INGREDIENTS
2 3/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup milk


DIRECTIONS
Mix flour and salt together. Pour milk and oil into one measuring cup, do not stir, and add all at once to flour. Stir until mixed, and shape into 2 flat balls. Wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 15 minutes or more.
Roll out on lightly floured surface.

Single crust press-in oil pastry
INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons cold 1% milk
1/2 cup canola oil


DIRECTIONS
Sift together flour, sugar and salt. In a small bowl, beat milk into canola oil with fork until frothy. Form a well in flour mixture. Add canola oil mixture and combine gently with a fork until crumbly.
Pat into a pie plate as you would for a crumb crust. Add filling and bake according to filling recipe.

Sorry, meant to edit my post but somehow I managed to quote and duplicate myself! Must have hit the wrong button. Edited to add that I use canola oil!