3-Ingredient Sour Cream Pie Crust
Ridiculously tender and so flavorful, this easy 3-Ingredient Pie Crust uses a secret ingredient to make for the best pie pastry. This sour cream pie crust recipe works equally well with sweet fruit pies as it does savory pies.
- Prep Time: 00:10
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 2 Pie Crusts
- Category: Pie Crust
- Method: By Hand
Ingredients
- 2-½ cups (300 grams) all-purpose flour
- 1 cup (226 grams) cold salted butter, diced
- 3/4 cup (180 grams) full-fat sour cream
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine the flour and the diced butter. Toss to coat the butter with the flour. Work the butter into the flour using a pastry blender, by using your fingers to squeeze the butter chunks until they're flat and then rubbing them into the flour. Some larger pieces can remain, up to the size of a marble. Continue blending until the dough looks shaggy.
- Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and add the sour cream to it. Using a spatula, mix the sour cream in the flour.
- Using your hands, knead the dough a few times to help blend the sour cream into the flour until it just comes together as one large ball.
- Transfer the pastry to a work surface and shape into a rough disk shape. Place the dough in a piece of plastic wrap and wrap tightly. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough out until it stretches to the edges of the plastic wrap to ensure a tight seal. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours, but preferably overnight.
- Use pie crust per per recipe instructions, or see the article above this recipe for baking tips.
Notes
Weighing your flour is the most accurate way to measure. If you aren't going to weigh it, make sure to spoon it into the cup, and then level it off. If you scoop the flour out with the measuring cup and then level, it could change the outcome of the final product.
Have a question or looking for tips? The text written above the recipe is always a great first place to start! There are always loads of explanations, tips and technical advice shared before the recipe.
If you don't have salted butter, substitute in unsalted butter with 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt.
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