Dr. Beth's Strawberry Pie
Ingedients:
- Pie crust of your choice (my recipe is below)
- Cream Cheese - 6 ounces (room temp)
- Stevia liquid, 1/4 teaspoon
- Vanilla extract, 1/4 teaspoon
- Strawberries, 2-1/2 to 3 quarts, cored, sliced into 2 - 4 pieces depending on size.
- Water, one cup
- Sugar, 2/3 cup ( I used organic cane sugar)
- Red jam, I used black raspberry, 2 tablespoons
- Stevia liquid, 1/4 teaspoon
- Corn starch, 5 tablespoons - be sure to use organic
- Cold water, 1/4 cup
Directions:
- Mix the vanilla, stevia and cream cheese with fork or spoon
Spread the cream cheese on the bottom of the pie crust and chill.
- Place one cup of water with jam, sugar, stevia and a few (like 6-8 pieces) strawberries in a medium saucepan and heat on medium high until boiling. Reduce heat to med low. Boil for 4 minutes. Mash the strawberries into the sauce.
- Combine the corn starch with the 1/4 cup cup cold water and add to the sauce. Stir until thickened. Turn off heat. Add remaining strawberries and stir gently to combine.
- Pour contents into pie crust and chill for at least 4 hours before serving.
Dr. Beth's All Butter Pie Crustcreates 2 crusts (for top and bottom or to use one now and freeze one for later)
Ingredients:
- 2-1/4 cups all purpose organic flour (For this recipe I used 3/4 cup wheat flour and 1 and 1/2 cups Trader Joes Gluten free flour because I did not realize I was so low on wheat flour) - Amazingly, it turned out great.
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 cup (two sticks) cold butter, cut into small pieces - (if using salted butter, reduce the sea salt to 1/2 teaspoon)
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup ice water
Directions:
- Place flour, salt and butter in food processor and pulse to combine and mix thoroughly.
- Add 1/4 cup of the ice water and continue to pulse. Add more water a tablespoon at a time until it pulls together.
- Gather the dough and place on cutting board or other flat surface. If it feels sticky you can dust with flour. Shape into a ball and cut in 1/2.
- Form two disks. Wrap well in wax paper and place in fridge for 30 minutes.
- If you are not using both crusts now, wrap second one in plastic and freeze for use later.
- If you refrigerate the dough longer than 30 minutes allow it to sit at room temperature a while until it rolls easily.
- Roll dough to fit pie pan. I usually crimp edges with a fork.
For this Strawberry Pie, I baked at 375 degrees for about 15 minutes until it was just barely starting to brown.
You can fill with any desired filling and bake according to the directions. I often use for this recipe for blueberry or pumpkin pies.