Gluten Free Shortcrust Pastry

Prep Time : 15 minutes minutes

Cook dinner Time : 30 minutes minutes

This candy, buttery gluten free shortcrust pastry is gentle, flaky, and melts in your mouth. Excellent for making tarts!

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Gluten free shortcrust pastry, just like pie dough, is made with easy gf pnatry elements like an all function gluten free flour mix, chilly chopped butter, and water, plus an egg yolk for richness. It helps make this shortcrust crumblier and melt-in-your-mouth scrumptious.

Why you will love this gluten free shortcrust pastry recipe

This recipe for shortcrust pastry is a particular, primary recipe that you are going to have the ability to use for thus many issues (together with my gluten free fruit tart recipe that is coming very very quickly!). This is what makes it particular:

• Straightforward to deal with
• Rolls out easily
• Made solely by hand (no stand mixer or meals processor required)
• Wealthy and buttery, however not heavy and does not compete with no matter filling you employ
• Can be utilized for no-bake fillings like our no bake cheesecake or with a baked filling like our gluten free chocolate chip pie

The elements you will want

• All function gluten free flour mix: I actually like my Higher Than Cup4Cup mix right here, or Nicole’s Greatest, however you need to use Higher Batter or Cup4Cup with nice outcomes. This can be a quite simple recipe, and though the flour mix at all times issues, it issues much more in a easy recipe that’s all about texture, so make sure you use one in all my really helpful blends.
• Xanthan gum: You will need to use some xanthan gum or your dough merely received’t roll out easily and received’t keep collectively with out cracking. In case your mix already comprises xanthan gum, omit this ingredient.
• Confectioners’ sugar: Confectioners’ sugar is finely floor sugar with a contact of added starch to make it clean, and it provides sweetness with out including any weight. Ensure you sift it, although, otherwise you’ll discover little clumps of it in your pastry.
• Kosher salt: Salt brightens the buttery taste and balances the mild sweetness. Kosher salt or flippantly flaked sea salt are my go-to salts since they’re simple to measure—and more durable to overmeasure than desk salt.
• Unsalted butter: Butter offers richness, provides flakiness, and naturally a buttery clean taste. Ensure you maintain yours chilly in order that it expands within the oven, creating flakiness
• Chilly water: We use chilly water, with ice to maintain it chilly, to hydrate the dough correctly—however we don’t add the ice to the blending bowl. You should definitely pressure it out as you pour.
• Egg yolk: We add a single egg yolk to this recipe for richness. It additionally makes the dough a bit extra crumbly (in a great way!) so it melts in your mouth.

Easy methods to make gluten free shortcrust pastry

This pastry dough is made in an identical strategy to how we make most gluten free pastries: by whisking collectively dry elements, slicing in chunks of chilly butter, and including liquid to deliver all the pieces collectively. This is how:

1. In a 1 1/2 to 2 cup measuring cup (or small bowl), whisk collectively the chilly water with the egg yolks. Add some ice to maintain it chilly, and set the combination apart.
2. In a big bowl, whisk collectively place the flour mix (together with xanthan gum), sifted confectioners’ sugar, and salt.
3. Add chilly, chopped butter to the dry elements, and toss so every bit of butter is coated in flour.
4. Press every floured chunk of butter between a floured thumb and forefinger to flatten it right into a shard.
5. Create a effectively within the heart of the massive bowl of dry elements, and add the egg yolk and water combination. Combine to deliver the dough collectively.
6. If there are any very crumbly bits, add extra ice water by the half-teaspoon, and blend to mix.
7. Knead the dough collectively flippantly simply sufficient to press it right into a disk.
8. Press the dough right into a disk and canopy tightly with plastic wrap.
9. Refrigerate for not less than 2 hours or as much as in a single day.

Easy methods to form and bake gluten free shortcrust pastry

The method of shaping and baking a shortcrust pastry is similar to the method of baking a pie crust. The identical ideas of retaining the elements chilly, dealing with all the pieces shortly, and utilizing a lightweight contact additionally apply. This is how:

1. Sprinkle a flat floor flippantly with extra flour. Unwrap the dough, place it on the floor, and dirt once more flippantly with extra flour.
2. Utilizing a rolling pin (the type with the 2 tapered ends and no handles is greatest), roll out the dough right into a tough rectangle that’s about 1/2-inch thick rectangle.
3. Fold the rectangle in half lengthwise, then mud it once more flippantly with flour, and roll it out once more right into a 1/2-inch thick rectangle.
4. As soon as extra, fold the rectangle in half lengthwise, after which fold once more widthwise to create a thick sq..
5. Mud the sq. flippantly with flour, and roll the dough out right into a spherical that’s about 2 inches bigger in diameter than the tart pan you’ve gotten chosen.
6. When you’re utilizing this dough to make small tartlets, as small as 4-inches, lower out 5-inch rounds utilizing a biscuit or cookie cutter.
7. To make a single full-size spherical tart, switch the spherical of dough to the ready tart pan. Press it gently into the underside and the edges of the pan.
8. Utilizing a pointy knife or kitchen shears, trim the sides of the dough flush with the higher fringe of the edges of the pan.
9. Pierce the underside and sides of the tart crust with the tines of a fork about 25 occasions. This may assist maintain the tart from puffing up within the oven.
10. You probably have the egg white from the egg yolk you used, use it to brush the underside floor of the crust generously.
11. Line the pastry crust with a chunk of parchment paper, and canopy the underside of the crust with dried beans or ceramic or different heat-safe pie weights.
12. Bake for 20 minutes at 375°F, then scale back the oven temperature to 350°F.
13. Take away the crust from the oven, take away the paper and the pie weights, and return to the oven to bake for one more 10 minutes or till the crust shouldn’t be shiny and is dry to the contact.
14. It must be pale golden brown throughout with some darker brown patches.
15. Enable the tart crust to chill totally earlier than filling.
16. When you plan to make use of this to make a baked filling, bake just for the primary 20 minutes, take away the crust lining and weights, fill, after which return the crust to the oven to complete baking.

Gluten Free Shortcrust Ideas & Tips

Keep in mind to maintain all the pieces chilly

In making shortcrust pastry, like in most pastries, temperature issues a ton. You should definitely maintain your butter chilly, and your water chilly. The egg yolk blends extra simply into the chilly water if it is at room temperature, however it’s superb if that is chilly, too.

Solely add extra water if completely needed

Start with 3/8 cup (or 3 fluid ounces) of chilly water, and because you’re mixing the egg yolk into it, you will add the entire quantity to your flour combination. However including extra water is strictly on an as-absolutely-necessary foundation. When you see crumbly bits, attempt to add the additional water on to these crumbly bits to moisten them.

When you do discover that your dough appears moist and overly tender, do not add extra flour simply but. Wrap it tightly in plastic wrap and let it chill for not less than 2 hours, and if potential in a single day. That can give the flour an opportunity to soak up a few of that further moisture. If the dough remains to be cheesy to the contact (you contact it and it leaves a residue in your finger), simply sprinkle some further gluten free flour on it as you are rolling it out and it ought to tighten proper up.

Keep away from the meals processor in the event you can

This gluten free shortcrust pastry is absolutely greatest when made by hand. It permits you to maintain the chunks of butter bigger and extra irregular, which makes for a lighter pastry. You can too extra simply keep away from including an excessive amount of liquid once you do it by hand.

In case you are simply extra comfy utilizing a meals processor, make sure you pulse flippantly, and not less than contemplate including the water and yolk combination by hand. That method, you actually get a really feel for a way a lot moisture the dough wants.

In case your shortcrust pastry cracks

Since we undergo just a few rounds of rolling out the dough, folding it right into a rectangle, and rolling it out once more, the dough must be fairly clean by the point you are creating your ultimate form. If the dough appears oily, that implies that the butter has melted and your greatest guess is to wrap it tightly and chill it straight away.

When you discover that it is cracking prefer it’s too dry and the dough is not holding collectively correctly, sprinkle it flippantly with water (actually, sprinkle it with water out of your fingertips) and press and roll the dough again collectively. If the dough hasn’t cracked, however as a substitute actually has simply torn, fold it over on itself, then roll it out once more and proceed as if nothing ever occurred!

When you like shortcrust pastry, you may additionally be concerned with these pies and tarts

Shortcrust pastry is quite a bit like pie crust, however with out baking powder and with an egg yolk. It is often utilized in a bottom-only tart pan, just like the gluten free fruit tart recipe that I am sharing quickly (you are going to find it irresistible!)

You may additionally love the savory model of this shortcrust pastry (simply with extra all function gluten free flour mix rather than the confectioners’ sugar on this candy model), that we have served earlier than stuffed with tomatoes, basil, and cheese. Or possibly strive our gluten free quiche in a tart pan, with this crust as a substitute of pie crust. Let me know what you suppose within the feedback beneath!

Gluten free shortcrust pastry ingredient substitution recommendations

Gluten free dairy free shortcrust pastry

you need to be capable of make this recipe dairy free by changing the butter with vegan butter. My favourite manufacturers are Soften and Miyoko’s Kitchen, however they do have extra moisture than butter in order that they do are usually softer than butter. That may make them onerous to cut and troublesome to maintain chilly as you deal with them with heat palms. Simply ensure that your water could be very chilly, and start with much less water, possibly even 1/4 cup (2 fluid ounces) ice water and add extra sparingly as you deliver the crust collectively.

Gluten free egg free shortcrust pastry

The egg yolk on this shortcrust pastry provides richness and modifications the feel a bit. If you cannot have eggs however would nonetheless like that richness, strive utilizing 1 tablespoon (14 g) of olive oil rather than the egg yolk.

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