Buttery & Flaky Sourdough pie crust recipe 

Try this simple sourdough pie crust recipe that is great for any level of sourdough baker. This sourdough pie crust recipe has written step-by-step instructions that will guide you to make the most delicious, and flaky sourdough pie crust.

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Sourdough can seem like a difficult process and may be over-complicated for the public. You can make many things other than sourdough bread from sourdough starter or discard.

You can incorporate your sourdough starter into your everyday scratch-baking recipes. 

This sourdough pie crust is a great example of how to add an active sourdough starter to make a buttery sourdough pie crust. You can even use sourdough discard in this recipe instead to make sourdough discard pie crust.

I do have an entire blog post about how to make a simple sourdough artesian bread in one day. You can see that recipe after this one, and I’m sure you will be glad you did.

Sourdough Pie Crust Table of Contents

Making your pie crust with sourdough starter gives you the best of both worlds. You get the nutrition and gut health benefits of sourdough as well as yummy buttery flaky piecrust you can use in all types of desserts.

Even if you’re just starting your sourdough journey, this is a great staple recipe to keep when you want to make any pie crust.

Trust me, you don’t know how to be a professional sourdough baker, or even have a couple of years of sourdough baking under your belt to do this recipe.

Why do you love this sourdough pie crust dough recipe?

• The ingredient list is manageable
• Simple ingredients that you can find in your pantry
• It’s a Quick and easy recipe to follow
• You can do so much with this recipe as it’s very versatile
• This is a no-waste recipe
• This recipe you would love because it’s easy to preserve for later
• It will expand your skillet in baking.

Ingredients

Tools

• Large Mixing bowl – I always use my stainless steel bowl, they are so sturdy & won’t leach out chemicals.
• Shredder
• Measuring cups
• Measuring spoon
• Mixing tool– I use my Dutch dough whisk, which is a must-have baking tool that makes mixing those and batters easier.
• Bench scraper

How to make sourdough easy pie crust step-by-step

First step

Add all your dry ingredients except for water and butter in a large bowl.

Second step

Incorporate all the ingredients in your mixing bowl and then add butter by shredding it with a shredder ( this will create a flaky crust). 

Step three

With your hands break up the butter into butter pieces and incorporate it in the flour until you feel bits and pieces of butter throughout your flour.

Step four

Add in your water and mix with a spatula folding the flour into itself until you see the flower forming a dough. 

Step five 

Spill your broken-up dough onto your lightly floured work surface counter and wait until the dough is completely incorporated and you can have one solid dough shape.

Step six

Form the dough into a ball and cut it in half. At this point you can place the dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to an hour or in the freezer for 10 to 50 minutes to use or freeze for later.

How to roll sourdough pie dough the easy way

Get a handful of flour and sprinkle it to create a lightly floured surface.

Get your ready-cooled-down ball of sourdough pie dough and roll it out flat with a floured rolling pin on your kitchen surface where you sprinkled flour. 

Continue to roll each side, flipping the dough back and forth in order to get a circle shape of dough.

Keep rolling the sourdough out the dough until your desired size (usually the size of your pie pan)

Place dough onto your pie pan to begin shaping. 

Storing sourdough piecrust

• If you make your sourdough pie dough as instructed in the beginning, cut the dough in half.
• Shape each piece of dough in a disc-like shape with your hands.
• Tightly wrap the sourdough pie dough in a piece of plastic wrap or in a freezer bag, or Ziploc bag to place the dough inside. 
• You can store your dough in a plastic wrap or a container or in the refrigerator.
• Some key points when you are storing sourdough pie dough: 
• You can leave in the freezer for up to six months
• Label and date your store dough
• You can store your dough in the fridge raider for 3 to 5 days
• Keeping your sourdough piecrust air tights when wrapping will prevent freezer burn.

How do you use sourdough pie crust?

This sourdough piecrust recipe is very versatile and you can do many things with this amazing delicious dough.

I always make this sourdough pie crust every week and keep a few in the freezer in grab it and thought to make certain delicious desserts throughout the week.

You can use up the sourdough piecrust in many ways, especially if you freeze it for later you can continue to use it within six months and make plenty of delicious desserts

Some examples of things you can make using sourdough pie crust or when you have any excess dough are:

• Any fruit pie of your choice
• Homemade pop tarts
• Various fruit
• Breakfast quiches
• Any kind of fruit galette
• Pigs in a blanket
• Piecrust cookies
• Cinnamon sugar, Crackers
• Empanadas
• Pie crust, cinnamon twist
• Different types of fruit, hand pies
• Turnovers
• Pumpkin pie
• Any savory pies
• Skies the limit with the sourdough pie crust recipe

Skies the limit with the sourdough pie crust recipe! All these ideas are a great way to use up a sourdough pie crust recipe like this one. 

Sourdough Pie Crust Tips for Success 

• The sourdough piecrust recipe is pretty foolproof, but there are some tips and tricks that you can do to help you be a little bit more successful when making it this recipe.
• My go-to tips for making sourdough piecrust: 
• Make sure your water is ice cold when you add this ingredient to your flower dough mixture. Using ice-cold water helps make a more flakier pie crust.
• Do not overwork your dough or under your dough. In the beginning, it might seem impossible to make this, though as a crumbles but the more you work it the more the butter helps to create the dough shape. Just don’t overwork to the point you do not feel any of the butter chucks. 
• Always, but always chill your sourdough pie crust before using it it will create better structure and your result will be a nice buttery and delicious pie crust
• When rolling out your dough, make sure you flip the dough from front to back making sure it is always moving preventing it from sticking on your surface.
• Having very flouted working surfaces to help your dough, not stick and continue to be shaped when shaping out your pie go to your desired shape.
• ​Instead of using a cheese grater to cut up cold butter, you have us a food processor.

If you follow any of these tips you be successful in making this homemade pie crust with sourdough flavor to make any pot pies, apple pie, or sweet pies of your choice.

Sourdough Pie Crust Frequently asked questions

What is the secret of making flaky pie crust?

The secret to making a freaky pie crust is butter. Butter makes your dough look clicky when baking.

Should you butter the pie crust before baking it?

There’s no reason to butter the pie crust before baking it. It is better to use an egg wash to help with the brownie and give your pie that nice-looking color.

What causes flakiness to occur in pie dough made from butter?

You use butter in a dough like the sourdough pie crust when it is baked, and the steam creates air pockets that help make those yummy freaky layers. Butter evaporation and steam are the two science components that help with flakiness in a pie crust when you use butter.

I hope you enjoy this recipe and can use it again and again especially if you an abundance of sourdough discard like I do sometimes.

Other sourdough recipes to try

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