Gooseberry Pie? Who doesn’t love a bit of Gooseberry Pie? After binge watching “Bridgerton”, I was inspired to create my own Gooseberry Pie. The gooseberries may be tart but melded with the almonds and orange and touch of Star Anise and cinnamon, I think this makes a fine combination and contrast – imagining what it might have been like in the Regency era.
Blanched almonds, I purchase from a nifty Asian outlet in Hayes. It has an online presence too which can be found here – I love it because it is reasonably priced and tends to be good quality stuff which I use.
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Ingredients
- Dry ingredients
- 150g millet
- 30g flaxseeds
- 30g oats
- 50g raw unrefined cane sugar
- 100g white rice flour
- 60g tapioca flour
- Pinch of salt
- Wet ingredients
- 65ml olive oil
- 85ml filtered water
- 25g prune puree
- For the filling
- 150g almonds, blanched ground
- 100g filtered water
- 1/2 orange, juice
- 1 Star anise
- 1 cinnamon stick – small
Instructions
- Line 5 medium cake tins with oil.
- Make the pastry by placing the millet, flaxseeds, oats and sugar into a high speed blender and blending till fine. Transfer to a large mixing bowl add in the rice and tapioca flours and salt.
- Add in the wet pastry ingredients. Kneed the pastry into a dough. Weigh and measure the dough. Separate into 5 pieces of equal and approximate weight.
- Form the dough into a ball and place between two sheets of baking paper. Roll out the dough into a thin circular layer. Remove one sheet and place around the flan dish. Don't worry if the pastry comes over the edges - it gives it a rustic look.
- Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees Celsius or if you have a convention fan, to 160 degrees Celsius.
- Prick the pastry and place in the oven for about 15 minutes.
- Make the filling by placing the Star Anise and cinnamon with the orange juice and water. Whizz until the fine. Add in the ground almond
- Take the pastry from the oven and spread the almond filling over each of the 5 pastries.
- Place the gooseberries on top of the almond filling.
- Place the pies in the oven for 25 minutes until golden.
- Serve the Gooseberry Pies with vegan ice cream.
