Finally, my dear friends, let’s talk about putting a finishing touch on our stunning New Year Lenten menu – Lenten pie with orange filling. When I saw this recipe on gotovim-doma.ru website I knew that this dessert is exactly what I’m looking for 2018 New Year celebration. As I already mentioned at the beginning of my New Year post, oranges and mandarins are an inevitable part of the New Year spirit. It is a classic dessert we are talking about here and it deserves to be on the top of the charts. This pie tastes like those yummy homemade pies that we buy occasionally in orchards and to be honest I’m surprised that we can reach this result with the lack of dairy products as dough components. Bitter orange zest flavor is balanced with a sour-sweet orange jam-like filing that is being achieved but simply adding two tablespoons of starch to the shredded orange. If my description made you feel adventurous, then don’t stop here and go ahead and try to add some cinnamon to the filling or even better, you may add some shredded dark chocolate. Could you imagine how tasty, that marble orange chocolate melting lava would be? My mouth is already watering.
I would like to confess that I’m not a dough person. I can spend hours in a kitchen baking biscuit cake layers and whip the cream but dough… I have always been intimidated by any recipe that contains yeast and kneading dough and rising process. It’s time to take a deep breath and start perfecting my skills in the dough area, I hope you will be there to support me and cheer me up. I have heard somewhere that “changes and challenges highlight the path for advancement”, another one to go with it “the only way out of difficulties is through them”. Nice way to set up New Year resolution, what do you think? How about each of us pick one thing that one always been afraid of doing or learning and make a New Year resolution to go “through” it until the end of 2018 aiming to become confident and successful in that area? I pick dough and promise to advance my skills in this tricky area and post decent bread recipes on Lenten Chef in 2018!
How about you?
p.s. Guess what? Orange pie recipe does not contain yeast as a dough component and does not require a rising process. Kneading that dough was a “piece of cake”! The first one is a charm!
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Lenten pie with orange filing
Ingredients
- 1, 1/2 cups flour
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 7 tbsp cold water
- 120 ml olive or vegetable oil
- 2 oranges
- 1 lemon
- 2 tbsp corn strarch
- 1 cup sugar
Instructions
- Prepare your ingredients
- Sift 300 gr flour in a bowl, add sugar, oil and cold water and mix everything with a spatula first and then knead into a soft elastic dough. Add remaining flour gradually to make dough soft and elastic (see the picture)
- Divide dough into two parts (one bigger than the other one) and put the smaller part in a freezer for 1,5 hours, the bigger leave in a fridge. If you don’t have 1,5 hours on your hands, make streusel.
- Combine the smaller part of your dough with 2 tbsp. of sugar and 2 tbsp. of dough and mix everything together in food processor. Put it in a fridge while preparing the filling.
- Zest 2 oranges and one lemon, put aside. Peel your fruits and cut into equal chunks, add zest and blend in a food processor using a pulse regime. Be careful not to over blend as your filing might turn into orange juice.
- Add sugar and starch to your orange filling and mix thoroughly.
- Roll the dough trying to keep it in a circular shape. Fold dough in half two times, put your dough envelope in the tin and unfold leaving the edges. This method will help you to distribute the dough in the tin evenly.
- Add filling and level it. Unfold dough edges and cover the remaining surface with shredded frozen dough or with streusel.
