Healthy sour cream dessert recipes

An easy weeknight recipe and more, delivered once a week. No Fail, Sour Cream Pie Crust It’s the easiest, flakiest healthy sour cream dessert recipes pie crust ever! No machine required for this longtime reader favorite, a buttery pie and pastry crust recipe anyone can make. Elise founded Simply Recipes in 2003 and led the site until 2019.

She has an MA in Food Research from Stanford University. It is flaky, it is buttery, it is un-fussy, and it needs no difficult-to-clean equipment—just your clean hands and a large bowl. No added water, instead you add sour cream. This method works and it couldn’t be easier. The recipe comes from my friend, former Zuni Cafe chef Kathi Riley, who has been using it as her go-to pastry crust recipe for 25 years and who graciously shared it with me to share with you. Why Does This Pie Crust Recipe Work? The biggest issue with flour-based pie crusts is toughness.

Toughness develops when protein strands in gluten form when the flour and water come together. By rubbing the flour initially with butter, you coat the flour protein molecules in fat. When you add sour cream, you add moisture that is surrounded by fat. Both the fat in the butter and the fat in the sour cream help keep water molecules away from protein molecules, resulting in a more tender pie crust. Take the chill off the butter: Many pie crust recipes call for working with very cold ingredients, which is important for an all-butter pie crust.