Sourdough Discard Recipe: Sourdough Pie Crust
Easy sourdough recipe uses sourdough starter to create a flaky, flavorful piecrust. For home bakers looking to level up their baking game. Flaky, buttery, pie crust that uses up your sourdough discard –yay! The perfect foundation for your favorite pie while also using up the sourdough discard you have laying around… Enjoy!
- Prep Time: 10-20 min
- Cook Time: 40 min to bake the pie
- Total Time: 10-20 min for pie crust
- Yield: 1 top crust, 1 bottom crust 1x
- Category: Sourdough Discard Recipe
- Method: Sourdough Baking
Ingredients
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300g AP Flour
30g sugar – optional
10g salt – optional
227g cold salted butter (cubed)
150g sourdough starter discard
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, or food processor, combine/pulse the AP flour and sugar together (if using sugar)
- Cut in salted butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs –like gritty sand, DO NOT overwork the dough.
- Add your sourdough starter, stirring/pulsing until everything is well combined.
- Divide the dough in half and shape each portion into a disk.
- Roll out one disk of dough until it reaches approximately 12 inches in diameter.
- Carefully drape the rolled dough over a 9-inch pie plate
- Fill the pie crust with your choice of delicious pie filling.
For the top crust
- Roll out the second disk of dough and place it over the filling, trimming any excess dough.
- Crimp the edges and create a decorative design in the center to allow steam to escape during baking.