Crostata ai mirtilli ( Blueberries tart pie )

 

 

Crostata ai mirtilli ( Blueberries tart pie )

When I went in a national park near Stockholm  Blueberries there was a group of Indians tourists too, they was very noisy and they appear exited as a children for everything ! A very funny memory is when one of them saw some blueberry plant and he start jumping shouting "blùbbery! bluùberry!!" :-))

Anyway this kind of "crostata" tart pie is one of my favourite, maybe just the apple pie or fruits pie can be better for me.

Sometimes ago a friend ask to prepare a pie , so after some research on the web about an easy recipe I tried with this pie. When I was kid mum prepared this pie and usually I made the up stripes of dough.
Nowadays mum get lazy and if I want to eat this pie , ( this often happen recently :-)) ) I have to prepare it myself , the prepared one that you find at mall are not the same!

Ingredients:

400 g of white flour

3 eggs

100 g of sugar

100 g of butter

1 grated lemon skin

200 g of blueberry marmelade

The preparation is quite easy:

Let melt the butter in a little pot (or in the microwave).

Mix the flour with the sugar, add the eggs, the melted butter and the grated lemon skin.

Knead it for about 10 minutes. (if the pastry appear too much watered add some flour)

Let the dough in the fridge for half hour.

After this divide the dough in two parts (65% for the base of pie and 35% for the decorative stripes )

Start to warm the oven , it must be at 180 degree (Celsius!!)

Cover with some olive oil a middle pie dish (is also good do this with some butter and grated bread or flour)

Stretch the dough in the pie dish, cover it with the marmelade and then decorate with stripes made with the other part of dough. make a web with the stripes over the marmelade.

You can choose the kind of marmalade you prefer. (also chocolate cream like nutella is good !)

Cook the pie in the oven for 40 minutes. Let it cold and enjoy it. ;-)