Nuts and Honey Pie Recipe

Ingredients:

For the pie crust:

Maida (flour) - 2 cups.

Butter - ½ cup.

Icing sugar - 2 tbsp.

Egg - 1 no.

For the filling:

Unsalted butter - ½ cup.

Eggs (beaten) - 3 nos.

Castor sugar - ½ cup.

Honey - 3 tbsp.

Pistachio, almonds or pine nuts - 200 gm.

Grated rind and juice of 1 lemon.

Salt - 1 pinch.

For the dusting:

Icing sugar (optional)

Method:

=> Sift together the maida (refined flour) and icing sugar and mix in the butter working with your fingers till the mixture resembles with fine bread crumbs.

=> Take the above mixture in a bowl, add egg with 1 tbsp of water and work to a rim dough that leaves the bowl clean.

=> Use this dough to roll out the pastry on a floured surface and use roll out to fit a baking dish which you will use for pie. The pastry should be larger than the pie dish, so that it covers the sides completely.

=> Alternately you could use smaller size of pie crusts to be served as individual tarts since these are easier to handle.

=> To prepare the filling, cream together the butter and castor sugar until light, beat in the eggs one by one.

=> Now heat the honey gently in a small saucepan to the flowing consistency and then add the butter mixture. Mix in the lemon juice and rind.

=> Stir in the nuts and salt and then pour into the pie crusts. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180^OC till the filling is golden brown and well set.

Allow to cool then dust generously with icing sugar as per your choice. Nuts and Honey Pie is ready.