Rice Free All-Butter Pie Crust
A truly great pie starts with a truly great crust, and this all-butter version delivers that shatteringly flaky, golden result that makes every filling taste better. With just five simple pantry ingredients — flour, salt, sugar, butter, and ice water — there's no room for hidden grains or starchy fillers that can sneak into store-bought versions. The technique is straightforward: cold butter worked into flour until crumbly, then brought together with just enough ice water to hold. Those visible pea-sized butter pieces are exactly what you want, because they melt in the oven and create those irresistible flaky layers. Chilling the dough before rolling is the one step you really shouldn't skip — it relaxes the gluten and keeps the butter firm so your crust bakes up tender rather than tough. Whether you're making a sweet fruit pie or a savory quiche, this crust is the kind of reliable foundation that earns a permanent spot in your recipe rotation.
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8 servings
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp granulated sugar
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into ½-inch cubes and chilled
- 3–4 tbsp ice water
Instructions
- 1
Whisk together the flour, salt, and sugar in a large mixing bowl until combined.
- 2
Add the chilled butter cubes to the flour mixture and work them in with a pastry cutter or your fingertips until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs with some pea-sized butter pieces still visible throughout.
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