Delicious shortcrust pastry - recipe

There are quite many people ask me how to make pie crust. They said they can't make it, usually they said it is too wet or they look terrible after baking it...

Actually there are 3 different types of pie crust in French cuisine - pâte brisée (shortcrust pastry), pâte sablée (sweet shortcrust pastry) & pâte feuilletée (puff pastry).

There are quite many different recipes to make these pastry. However, the basic ingredients are butter, water, flour, salt.

OK, so now I would like to share the recipe that I followed in kitchenaid cookbook, it is about 300g.

Ingredients
200g flour
1/4tsp salt
2tbsp icing sugar (for Sweet shortcrust pastry)
100g cold butter
1 beaten egg
1tsp lemon juice
1-2tbsp iced water

Instructions
1. Place the flour, salt and icing sugar (if using) in the mixing bowl

2. Dice the butter and add to the bowl. Mix until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs

3. Add egg, lemon juice and iced water. Knead until a smooth dough is formed

4. Knead on a lightly floured working surface. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for at least 30mins
Note: I keep the dough in the fridge for about 1h

Enjoy!