Shortcrust pastry base (pâte brisée)
Shortcrust pastry, or pâte brisée, is ideal for making both sweet and savoury pies, empanadas, empanadillas, tartlets and quiches.
You only need a few simple ingredients to make it, and because it is homemade, we can be sure it contains no palm oil, no dairy and no other animal ingredients, so it will be much healthier for us, for the planet and for animals.
This pastry turns out very thin and easy to handle, and it can be rolled out smoothly and evenly without any difficulty. What's more, since it is made with olive oil, there is no need for margarine, which benefits us nutritionally because we use ingredients that are as natural and healthy as possible, and it gives the pastry a lovely, delicate flavour.
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- Step 1In a bowl, we toss the flour sieving it with the help of a sieve and add the salt.
- Step 2Add the oil and stir with your fingers for a couple of minutes, then take the water and continue stirring with your fingers to form a homogeneous mass. Then we make a ball and leave it in the bowl for 30 minutes in the fridge, covered with a film or with a damp cloth.
- Step 3After this time, we take the bowl out of the refrigerator and, on a clean surface, we put a little flour and, on top of it, we place the dough. We roll out the dough with a floured rolling pin until we leave a thin layer ( 2 mm thick) with the desired shape (circular, rectangular…).
- Step 4In the mold that we are going to use, we put baking paper and, on top of the paper, place the stretched dough, taking care that it does not break. We adapt the dough to the mold with care, we puncture with a fork and remove the dough left over the edges.
- Step 5We cover the dough also with vegetable paper and, on this, we put some weight so that it does not rise when cooked, as for example, legumes.
- Step 6With the oven preheated to 175 °C, place the dough on a baking sheet in the middle of the oven, using both top and bottom heat, and bake for 10 minutes. After this time, remove the pan from the oven, let it cool slightly, and then you can fill it as desired.