Strawberry & rhubarb pie
The taste of spring
Equipment
- 1 pie tin or springform approx. 24 cm
- sheet of baking parchment
- blind bake filling (beans, rice etc..)
Ingredients
Pie crust
- 75 g cold plant butter
- 165 g flour
- 55 g castor sugar
- 3 g salt
- 25 g vegan yoghurt
Pie filling
- 150 g rhubarb
- 100 g sugar
- 15 g maizena
- 40 g water
- 200 ml vegan whipping cream
- 1 sachet vanilla sugar
- 1 sachet stabilizer for whipping cream
- 150 g fresh strawberries halved
Instructions
Pie crust preparation
- Cut the butter into small cubes and put them in the freezer for 10 minutes.75 g cold plant butter
- Place the butter cubes with the flour (and sugar if you are going to bake a sweet cake) and salt in the food processor and briefly mix using the pulsing button until flakes are formed. Transfer to a bowl and add the yoghurt. Mix softly with your fingertips, pressing everything together without kneading until you have a cohesive dough. If you do not have a foodprocessor you can also use your hands to rub the hard cold butter, flour, sugar and salt into a crumbly structure. Then mix in the yoghurt and as described.165 g flour, 55 g castor sugar, 3 g salt, 25 g vegan yoghurt
- Form a flat round ball of the dough. Wrap in foil and flatten it with a rolling pin to a 4 cm thick circle. This will ease rolling out later. Let rest in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Blind baking of the pie crust
- Preheat the oven to 170 °C conventional or 185 °C convection.
- Take the dough out of the fridge and roll it between two sheets of baking paper to a sheet of dough which is 2 – 3 cm larger than your baking mold.
- Place the dough between the sheets of baking paper in your baking tin and press the dough well into the edges. Make sure that the edge of the dough rises a little above the tray. Cut off the excess dough. Fill the mold with a blind bake filling and press it down well. Bake the cake 20 minutes in the middle of the oven (or on an oven stone). Remove the blind bake filling and the top layer of baking paper and put the cake back into the oven for another 6 minutes. Then leave to cool completely on a cooling grid.
Pie filling preparation
- Cut the rhubarb into small cubes and cook the rhubarb with the sugar for about 10 minutes until it becomes a purée. Mix the cornstarch with the water and pour this mixture into the boiling rhubarb purée while stirring with a whisk. Let come to a brief boil to thicken. Then pour the rhubarb puree into a wide tray, large plate or bowl to quickly cool.150 g rhubarb, 100 g sugar, 15 g maizena, 40 g water
- Once the rhubarb purée is at room temperature: whip the cream up with the vanilla sugar until stiff. Then add the cooled rhubarb puree and the whipping cream stabilizer and beat briefly and thoroughly.200 ml vegan whipping cream, 1 sachet vanilla sugar, 1 sachet stabilizer for whipping cream
- Keep 5 strawberries aside. Halve the remaining strawberries and place them, cut side up, in the pie crust diagonally up against the pie edge. Spoon the filling into the center and smooth to a small mound. Make sure you can still see the strawberries at the edge (see photo). Make a circle in the center with the remaining halved strawberries. Each cake slice (8 pieces) will thus have a strawberry on top. Let the cake set in the refrigerator for an hour.150 g fresh strawberries
- Garnish the pie with a sprig of mint and some baked pie crumbs (see notes for a recipe link)
Notes
This pie is most delicious on the very day you made it. The moist filling makes the bottom go soft after a few hours (and to be honest, in our kitchen this pie is eaten within a few moments). You can bake the crust a day in advance. Then wrap the base so that it stays crisp.
Pro tip: after baking and cooling, coat the base with melted vegan (white or dark) chocolate. The chocolate layer keeps the bottom crunchy longer.
Want some more crispy crumble on the cake? Then use the streusel from this recipe and bake that, loosely sprinkled on a baking sheet, at 165 °C until a crunchy crumb is formed.
Nutrition
Calories: 314.6kcalCarbohydrates: 38.6gProtein: 2.9gFat: 17.1gSaturated Fat: 7.5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2.5gMonounsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 29.1mgSodium: 245.5mgPotassium: 137.3mgFiber: 1.2gSugar: 20.9gVitamin A: 730.4IUVitamin C: 12.7mgCalcium: 48.9mgIron: 0.9mg
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