The whole thing started when my dad sent me around 3kg of gooseberries from the garden.
He knew what he was doing and this lovely act of kindness is not exactly what it seems.
If you've ever cleaned gooseberries, you know it's not fun. Actually, if you want o punish someone, give them 5kg of gooseberries to clean and they will curse you for the rest of your life. So once the gooseberries were handed over to me, that heavy pack became my problem. I worked for two afternoons, to be able to clean them. It's not an activity I wanted to do, but on the other hand, when you get fresh, organic fruits for free, you have to be grateful, especially these days, when everything is so expensive.
At first I had no clue what to do with them as jam we have for 5 years at least and no one is eating jams, so I thought why not ask AI for some suggestions and that's exactly what I did. Among a lot of other suggestions, Mr. AI said I could freeze them the smart way and use them later.
The majority of the fruits landed in the freezer, but the method of freezing is new to me. I mean I knew about it, but have never done it. In order to get the fruits freeze individually instead of a big block, I had to spread them on a tray and freeze them like that first, after which pack them together in a freezing bag. My freezer is not big, so it took some time to freeze the whole quantity, but it's done. I saved some though, as wanted to make a gooseberry pie, which is the subject of my post today.
Most likely it's my first gooseberry pie, I can't remember if I've made one before. It is my first in the air fryer, but definitely not the last one. I love it and am going to make another one very soon.
My old pie recipe is good, but this time I needed one for the air fryer and after a quick search, I decided to give this one a try. It's really simple, with just a few ingredients and honestly, just prefect.
Ingredients I used:
- 150g all purpose flour,
- 150g sugar,
- 2 eggs,
- 0.5dl water,
- 0.5 tsp baking powder,
- 200g gooseberry.
The original recipe as without fruits and used gem after it was done, which is a good option when you don't have fresh fruits, but I wanted to use my gooseberries.
All you have to do is mix the ingredients well, with a mixer.
Lucky me, the author of the recipe was honest and said she didn't use any grease, but she said she should have, as it was difficult to remove the pie from the silicon tray, which is why I sprayed the tray before pouring the mix into it and it was the best decision.
Then I spread the gooseberries on top of the mix and was ready to go into the air fryer.
The recipe says 26 minutes on 200C and check it after 20 minutes. I was a bit skeptical about the time as air fryers can differ, but it is enough and even perfect.
This is what I got after 26 minutes. The top was golden brown, as I like it and it was done.
This is the bottom of it and you can see it has a nice golden brown crust. It's not burnt and definitely not stuck to the tray.
Something I rarely do, this time I sprinkled some powdered sugar on top of it. Usually I chop the sugar quantity down from the start and was thinking of doing it here too, but the truth is, gooseberries are very sour, so I used the quantity suggested by the recipe and used powdered sugar on top as well. It looks better and in this case it is needed I think. If the fruit would have been a sweet one, like apricot or strawberry or nectarine, then the powdered sugar would not make it on top of the pie for sure.
And voilà!
I was pleasantly surprised to find out, it is really good. It is different from what you get in the electric oven, and I dare to say it's better. I like this one better and can't wait to bake it again.
The beauty of it is that you can use any type of fruit, just make sure to adjust the sugar accordingly.
Who wants a slice?
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