Mini Strawberry Pies

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Small leftovers in the fridge often lead to delectable treats! Strawberries, which are available in India in the winters often turn out to be a bit sour. Hence, these cute little strawberries promptly found their way into the freezer section of my refrigerator. Frozen fruit can be used in a number of sweet treats like smoothies, fruit yogurts etc. But I wanted to make something that could be had hot. So I looked up the internet for a pie crust recipe.And I found one here at Gemma's blog. That followed the preparation of a strawberry sauce and the creation of these warm and homely mini strawberry pies. Read on to know how.

Ingredients
  • 100 grams all purpose flour
  • 50 grams cubed butter (ice cold)
  • A pinch of salt
  • 2 teaspoons caster sugar
  • 2-3 tablespoons cold water.
  • 6-7 frozen strawberries
  • 1 tsp cornflour (optional)
  • 2 tbsp granulated sugar
  • a few drops lemon juice
Method
  1. Pie crust
    • Mix the flour, salt, caster sugar.
    • Add the cubed butter and cut it into the flour with the help of a fork.
    • When the butter is adequately mixed and the mixture resembles the texture of coarse sand, add the water and form a dough. Add less water in the beginning and add more only if required.
    • Refrigerate the dough for 3-4 hours.
  2. Strawberry Sauce
    • Let the strawberries defrost for at least an hour.
    • Crush the frozen strawberries with the help of a potato masher. 
    • Add the sugar, cornflour and lemon juice. Sugar quantity may be adjusted as the sweetness of strawberries.
    • Cook the mixture for 3 to 4 minutes.
  3. Assembly
    • Line the muffin tray with the rolled pie dough.
    • Fill in the strawberry sauce upto three fourths the height of the muffin.
    • You can choose to make a pie dough small lattice on top or cover completely with the dough or even leave it open.
    • Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for around 30 minutes.


Notes:

  1. My recipe made 6 mini pies. This would depend on the size of muffin tray used. 
  2. Fresh strawberries can be used in place of frozen. Cornflour would not be necessary with fresh strawberries. Frozen strawberries tend to get watery when thawed.

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