Concord Grape Pie (Gluten Free Vegan)
This gluten free vegan Concord Grape pie will quickly become your new love language.
If anyone ever makes you Concord grape anything, know this: They love you. A lot.
When I first started looking into ways to use my Concord grape harvests, I thought people were being overachievers. Unnecessarily hard. Ridiculous. But it turns out, they weren’t. Processing Concords is a quite simply, a tedious ridiculous amount of work. But totally worth it, all the same.
Here’s what I mean. After you grow the grapes, harvest the grapes, and remove the grapes from the stems, then the real work starts.
In order to remove the seeds, you must squeeze each individual grape. When you do this the inside will pop out. You save all the grape skins in one container and all the grape insides in another.
Then you cook the insides down until they release their grasp on the seeds. After that you remove the seeds by dumping them all into a strainer and collecting all that grape loveliness in a bowl below.
Discard the seeds and add the peels back to the grapes insides. Then you finally have seedless Concords ready for action.
I tell you all this now, cause there’s still time to get away! You can just pretend you never saw this recipe and fill your afternoon with something nice and easy instead!
But if you wanna keep going, here’s the recipe.
I give you Gluten Free Vegan Concord Grape Pie.
Concord Grape Pie (Gluten Free Vegan)
Ingredients
- 2 cups Gluten Free Flour (I use Bob's Redmill)
- 1 teaspoon Salt (I use Pink Himalayan)
- 1 cup Plant Based Butter, cut in cubes (I use Miyokos)
- 1/2-1 cup Water
- 7 cups Concord Grapes (See note)
- 3/4 cup Organic Sugar or Evaporated Cane Juice
- 1/4 cup Tapioca Starch
- 1/4 cup Arrowroot Powder
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt (I use Pink Himalayan)
- 1 tablespoon Lemon Juice
- 1 tablespoon Vanilla
- 1 tablespoon Plant Based Yogurt (I use Forager Plain)
- 1/2 tablespoon Water
- 1/4 teaspoon Date Syrup (You could try maple if you don't have date)
Instructions
The Crust
- Mix flour and salt together. Add butter and mix together until it crumbles like wet sand when you squeeze it. Then add water, just a bit at a time, until it starts to resemble a dough. The goal is to mix as little as possible at this stage. The water needed can vary a lot, and it is likely that you will have some left over. Divide the dough into two equal sized pieces. Wrap them in parchment, and keep them in the fridge for 15 minutes to an hour. Roll one of the pieces out, and place it in a 9 inch pie pan, crimping the edges, and poking a few holes in the bottom. Place it back in the fridge.
The Grapes
- Rinse 7 cups of Concord Grapes. Squeeze the green clear part out of the purple skin. Save the skins and insides into two separate bowls. This can take a while. Get some help if you can!Cook the grape insides on medium in a pot for 15-20 minutes, or until they start to release their seeds. Use a potato masher to help it along. When the grapes are broken up well, pour them through a strainer over a bowl. Push the grapes through and discard the seeds. Rinse the pot, and combine the grape skins and insides back together. Cook them together for 5-10 minutes, until the mixture is purple and coming together. Add lemon juice. Whisk together sugar, salt, tapioca, and arrowroot powder. Add it to the mixture on the stove, and whisk it together, cooking on low for a few more minutes. The mixture will start to thicken. Add vanilla. Let the mixture cool.
Pie Topper
- While it's cooking, roll out the second piece of pie dough. Use your favorite cookie cutters to cut out toppers for your pie. Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.Pour the cooled filling into your pie pan, and add the cut outs on top. Mix together syrup, yogurt, and water. Brush it on to the top crust of your pie. This will help it brown in the oven. Sprinkle lightly with sugar.
Baking
- Bake for 45 minutes to an hour, checking frequently. If your pie is browning too quickly, you can turn the oven down to 375 degrees, or cover with parchment. Keeping a parchment lined cookie sheet below will help catch any filling that may boil over. When pie is boiling and the crusts (even the bottom one!) are brown, remove your pie, and let it cool on a trivet. It's important to let the pie cool completely before you slice it, so it can set up and thicken properly. Slice and serve it up to someone you love!
If you love grape flavor, this is the pie for you. It is hands down my new favorite pie. The strong sweet concord flavor brings me back to sitting on the sidewalk at daycare in the 80s, nibbling on graham crackers and sipping Concord grape juice from paper cups. This pie is a healthier and more delicious reenactment of that moment.
Go ahead and make one for someone you love.
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