How to Make A Delicious Berry Pie?

Sweet or salty, pie is not a traditional pastry of our country. We have it but it is not baked at homes as often as cakes. I am pretty sure that my mom never baked it and I do not think she even knows how to.

Anyway I like pies very much when I try them in cafes and such places. I love both their taste & form. So I decided to try baking one, and even bought a special pan with notched sides. Then it took me like 3 years to realize this goal yesterday, just because I thought it is very difficult to make (ok I accept thet some kind of laze might have worsened the situation) , only to see that it is totally the opposite. I am so amazed & delighted with the delicious piece of pastry I created, I cannot wait to share my recipe with everyone.

Here are the ingredients for the dough:
• 3 glasses of wheat flour
• 3 eggs
• ½ glass of vegetable oil
• ½ glass of sugar
• 1 package of vanilla
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder

Ingredients for berry gel:
• 500 gr. of blackberries
• 100 gr. of blueberries
• 1 glass of sugar
• 2 tablespoons of starch

Preparation:
• In a large bowl, mix eggs, vegetable oil, ½ glass sugar, vanilla and baking powder. Add the flour slowly, add some, mix, add some more and continue like this. Make a dough. Wrap it with stretch film, put in the fridge and keep there for half an hour.
• In a pot, cook the blackberries and blueberries with sugar and starch, over medium heat, until the mixture becomes like a berry jam.
• Save a handful of the dough and roll the rest out with a rolling pin. Roll it out wider than the bottom of the pie pan.
• Wrap the dough around the rolling pin and slowly unfold over the pie pan. This is an easy method to put the rolled out dough over the pan.
• Place the dough over the bottom of the pie pan edges covering the pan’s edges.
• Pour the berry gel over the dough, to cover it all over.
• Roll out the rest of the dough that you saved. Cut out 1-2 cm. wide bands and place the bands over the pie, one row vertical, other row horizontal. Or pick small pieces from the dough and roll them between two hands to make threads. Put the threads over the pie one row vertical then other row horizonal.
• Heat the oven at 180 C for 15 minutes.
• Place the pan in the oven and bake for 25 minutes. Please note that baking heat and duration might differ from one oven to another. Watch the pie while baking at your first time to find the right period and degrees to bake.

Enjoy!

I made the same recipe with peaches. It is as delicious. I recommend it!

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