STRAWBERRY HIBISCUS CARDAMOM HANDPIE
I like a wonderful hand pie which can be eaten on the go.
Come May, I begin utilizing all of the spring and summer time season season fruits to make hand pies. Correct this second I’m sharing a Strawberry Hibiscus Cardamom Hand Pie — with the flakiest selfmade pie crust and a sweet-tart filling made with newest strawberries, dried hibiscus and floor cardamom.
Strawberries are popping up everywhere appropriate now. They closing till October, which is totally bliss for me, as they’re really one in all my favourite fruits. Rising up in Mumbai, strawberry season was non permanent lived — barely two months in a yr.
Strawberries invoke every type of recollections for me. My fondest is of my mother giving us in-season strawberries and whipped cream as dessert. She would make strawberry ice cream, strawberry milk shakes and simple vanilla truffles with newest strawberries on prime.
When my youngsters had been of their peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich years, their favourite jam was none other than strawberry — not store-bought, nonetheless selfmade. I beloved collaborating in spherical with flavors: I might make strawberry chocolate jam, strawberry rose (my favourite mixture!), strawberry cardamom, and strawberry hibiscus.
Strawberry Hibiscus Jam is definitely one in all my hottest flavors. When made with in-season strawberries which is prone to be candy like sweet, blended with dried hibiscus, which imparts a tart type, it’s merely elegant. (You may uncover the recipe in my cookbook, “Mumbai Modern.”)
Hibiscus is an annual herbaceous plant that grows hibiscus flowers, that are formed like a trumpet. They arrive in fairly a couple of colours, nonetheless the signature coloration that I grew up with was a stark, wise pink which can paint drinks and practically neon pink. You may uncover dried hibiscus on-line or at a Mexican grocery retailer. Dried hibiscus makes a unbelievable tea, considerably iced tea contained in the summers. Or use it to make desserts as efficiently.
These hand pies begin off with an easy compote, made with strawberries, dried hibiscus, sugar, lemon juice and just a bit little little bit of cornstarch. I furthermore add floor cardamom to lend a floral observe. The compote is totally cooled contained in the fridge prior to we type the hand pies.
Parts of the Strawberry and Hibiscus Compote:
- Updated strawberries: I exploit in-season strawberries for the juiciest, sweetest trend to the hand pies.
- Dried hibiscus: is added to the compote, and lends a tartness to the compote
- Cardamom: Together with the hibiscus, cardamom offers floral notes, together with a tad sweetness as efficiently.
- Granulated sugar: Provides the right amount of sweetness. This compote merely is just not overtly candy.
- Cornstarch: Helps to thicken the compote
- Lemon juice: offers acidity together with helps to thicken the compote with the pectin in lemon juice.
STRAWBERRY HIBISCUS HAND PIE
For the pie dough, I add apple cider vinegar and ice chilly water to flour and bits of butter. These bits of butter, when melted, create air pockets, leading to a flaky dough. I seen this trick a few years before now as quickly as I took an intensive pie class from the now-closed Tante Marie’s Cooking Faculty in San Francisco.
The dough and unbaked hand pies ceaselessly go into the fridge or freezer so that they are often dealt with additional merely. Egg wash is used inside to seal and on prime for an attractive golden brown crust.
DECORATION
As rapidly as baked and cooled, the hand pies are given a drizzle of strawberry icing, thus enhancing the strawberry type. It’s made with freeze-dried strawberry powder; you should purchase it on-line or make your non-public by pulverizing freeze-dried strawberries in a blender. I often get my freeze dried strawberries from Vendor Joe‘s and I grind it finely in a excessive velocity processor, and stress it.
Must you need to simplify the recipe, it is best to profit from a primary powdered sugar icing as an alternative, and even skip the icing completely in favor of a sprinkling of turbinado sugar. Equally, the ornament is optionally obtainable, nonetheless how can anybody resist a fairly pink pastry with sprinkles on prime?
One different nice recipes on my weblog with Strawberries and hibiscus are beneath:
Strawberry and Pistachio Ice Cream Macarons
Strawberry Curd Brownie Bites with Italian Meringue
Strawberry Jasmine Inexperienced Tea
Strawberry and Hibiscus Snickerdoodles
Strawberry and Hibiscus Shrub Spritzer
In case you do make any of those recipes, please do nor neglect to tag #thejamlab on Instagram and/or share it.
Hope you all are having gratifying with these longer lovely sunny days!
XO
Amisha
Parts
- Strawberry Hibiscus Cardamom Compote:
- 2 heaping cups strawberries, washed and cut back into small objects
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons dried hibiscus
- 1½ tablespoons cornstarch
- ½ teaspoon floor cardamom
- Pie Dough:
- 2¾ cups all-purpose flour, plus additional for rolling the dough
- 1 teaspoon floor cardamom
- 1 teaspoon desk salt
- 1½ tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 cup unsalted butter, chilly and cut back into small cubes
- ¾ cup ice-cold water
- ½ cup ice cubes
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- Egg Wash:
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons water
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- Strawberry Icing:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons freeze-dried strawberry powder
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2-3 tablespoons complete milk
- Decorations:
- Sprinkles (optionally obtainable)
Directions
- Make the Strawberry, Hibiscus, Cardamom Compote:
- In a medium bowl, combine collectively all of the climate with a rubber spatula. Let sit exterior, lined for about half-hour.
- Empty the bowl of elements correct proper right into a medium saucepan set on medium warmth. Combine to mix and convey to a boil, stirring usually. Boil for about 5 to 7 minutes, till the combination appears to be like thick.
- Let the combination cool completely prior to placing in an hermetic container. Place contained in the fridge for on the very least 4 to six hours.
- Make the Pie Dough:
- 1. In a large bowl, whisk collectively the flour, cardamom, salt and sugar. Add the chilly butter
- and, with a pastry blender or your fingers, cut back the butter till the chunks are pea-sized and coated in flour.
- 2. In a medium bowl, combine the water, ice and apple cider vinegar. Add 2 tablespoons of this chilly water combination to the flour combination utilizing the pastry blender or your arms to combine. Proceed along with 2 tablespoons of the chilly liquid at a time till the dough merely begins to return collectively. (You’ll nonetheless see butter objects, which is able to make the dough flaky.) You’ll need to wish as quite a bit as 10 tablespoons full. Ought to it is best to add a bit additional water to get it to return collectively, add in 1-tablespoon increments, nonetheless watch out: In case you add an excessive amount of water, the dough will develop into soggy.
- 3. Divide the dough into two equal elements. Wrap every portion in plastic wrap. Pat and kind the dough to type neat rectangles, about 5 by 6 inches in dimension every.
- 6. Refrigerate dough for 1 hour.
- Roll Out the Dough:
- 1. Take one rectangle of dough out of the fridge. Mud a bit floor with flour. Unwrap the dough and roll it out roughly into an 11-by-14-inch rectangle with a thickness of ⅛ to ¼ inch. Sprinkle the bottom and the rolling pin with additional flour to ensure that it will not stick.
- 2. Utilizing a ruler and a pointy knife, trim the highly effective edges to type an easy rectangle. Set the trimmings apart.
- 3. Cut back the dough lengthwise in 3-inch sections. Then cut back all of it by means of widthwise in 3½-inch sections to get 8 objects. The final phrase hand pies will most likely be 3-by-3½ inches.
- 4. Place the objects of dough on a parchment-lined baking sheet and place contained in the freezer for 10 minutes.
- 5. Repeat the reducing and chilling course of for the second rectangle of dough.
- 6. Gather all the scrap objects of dough and wrap in a plastic wrap. Kind a rectangle and refrigerate for half-hour. You’ll return to those scraps later to make 2 additional pies.
- Make the Egg Wash:
- 1. In a small bowl, whisk collectively the egg, water and sugar till efficiently blended.
- Make the hand pies:
- 1. Take away the primary baking sheet. Utilizing a pastry brush, brush the edges of every rectangle (about ½ inch all by means of) with the egg wash.
- 2. Spoon about 1 to 1¼ heaping tablespoons of the filling contained in the coronary coronary heart of every pie, leaving a ½ to ¾-inch hole all through the filling.
- 3. Take away the second baking sheet from the freezer, and place each bit gently on prime
- of a rectangle with filling. Use your fingertips to softly press all through the filling to seal the
- pie. Utilizing a fork, press the edges of the pie to make a sample and additional seal the pie. Cut back an X with a pointy knife within the midst of one of the best layer of dough of every pie in order that steam can escape whereas it bakes.
- 4. Brush one of the best of every pie with egg wash.
- 6. Use a spatula to put the pies on a baking sheet, and freeze till able to bake.
- 7. Take the scrap dough from the fridge. Roll it out correct proper right into a rectangle with a thickness of ⅛ to ¼ inch, and cut back into 4 rectangles. Repeat the steps of filling and forming pies, making use of egg wash on prime, to type 2 additional hand pies. Place on the an equivalent baking sheet as the opposite pies and freeze for an extra 10 minutes.
- 8. Inside the meantime, preheat the oven to 375 ranges.
- 9. Take away the pies from the freezer and apply but yet one more layer of egg wash to the tops. Cut back an X with a pointy knife within the midst of one of the best layer of dough of every pie in order that steam can escape whereas it bakes. Bake for half-hour, or till golden brown in coloration.
- 10. Take away from the oven, swap to a wire rack and let cool completely.
- Embellish the pies:
- 1. In a medium bowl, whisk collectively the powdered sugar, strawberry powder, vanilla extract and milk till it’s a thick nevertheless spreadable consistency.
- 2. Unfold about 2 teaspoons of icing on every pie, and enhance with some sprinkles. Let the pies sit for half-hour so the icing fashions. Serve.
- Retailer leftovers in an hermetic container for as quite a bit as 2 to a couple days. Heat them up in a toaster oven prior to consuming.