Shortcrust pastry recipe for Italian pie

From pasta frolla shortcrust pastry, you can cook Italian crostata pie, tartlets or cookies. Let's see what ingredients we need:

• 500 grams of flour;
• 4 eggs;
• 200 grams of powdered sugar;
• 250 grams of butter;
• Lemon zest;
• A pinch of salt.

Pour flour into a food processor first. Add oil, it should be cold. Stir until the paste looks like sand. Rub the zest of a whole lemon. Pour the flour onto the table with a slide, add sugar, lemon. Make a small depression in the flour hill and beat in the eggs. We need only the yolks. Add salt and knead the dough. Wrap the finished dough in a film, put in the refrigerator for 2 hours. Now you can use it for cookies, tartlets, pies and so on.

Watch the video: How to make Shortcrust Pastry for pies. Jamie Oliver (May 2024).