Cheese Crusted Apple Pie

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 cup plain flour
• 1/2 cup self-raising flour
• 2 tablespoons caster sugar
• 125 g butter
• 1/2 cup grated cheese
• 1/4 cup water, approx
• 4 large apples, peeled
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon plain flour
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1/3 cup plain flour
• 1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecan nuts
• 60 g butter

Recipe

• 1 cheese pastry: sift flours and sugar into bowl, rub in butter, add cheese, then enough water to mix to a firm dough.
• 2 press pastry into a ball, cover, refrigerate 30 minutes.
• 3 roll pastry large enough to line 23cm flan tin; trim edges.
• 4 cover pastry with a piece of greaseproof paper. cover paper with dried peas, beans or rice, etc.
• 5 bake in moderate hot oven 7 min, carefully remove paper and beans, bake further 7 min, cool.
• 6 filling: chop apples coarsely, add to pan with lemon juice, cover, cook about 10 min or until just tender.
• 7 stir in flour, sugar and cinnamon; cool to room temperature.
• 8 place filling into pastry case.
• 9 topping: combine sugar, flour and pecans in a bowl, rub in butter until mixture is coarse and crumbly.
• 10 sprinkle this on the filling in the pastry case.
• 11 bake in moderate hot oven 15 min, reduce heat to moderate, bake further 15 min; cool to room temperature.
• 12 decorate with whipped cream, extra chopped pecans and icing sugar, if desired.