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Nut Pastry Crust Recipe
Nut Pastry Crust Recipe-March 2024
Mar 29, 2026 10:03 PM

  Another no-roll piecrust—life is good.

  

Ingredients

makes one 9-inch crust

  1 cup walnuts or pecans, ground to a fine meal in a food processor

  1 cup oat flour

  1/2 cup barley flour

  Pinch of sea salt

  1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

  3 tablespoons canola oil

  2 tablespoons light agave nectar

  3 tablespoons water

  

Step 1

Lightly oil a 9-inch pie pan with canola oil spray. Mix the walnut meal, oat flour, barley flour, salt, and cinnamon in a large bowl. In a small bowl, mix together the canola oil, agave nectar, and water. Add the oil mixture to the flour mixture and stir to combine.

  

Step 2

Press the dough into the prepared pie pan. Build up the edges of the piecrust and flute with 2 fingers.

  

Step 3

To prebake the piecrust, preheat the oven to 325°F. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until golden.

  Reprinted with permission from Baking with Agave Nectar: Over 100 Recipes Using Nature's Ultimate Sweetener by Ania Catalano. Copyright © 2008 by Ania Catalano; photography © 2008 by Lara Hata. Published by Celestial Arts, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.Ania Catalano is a graduate of the Natural Gourmet School of Cooking in New York and the owner of the Gourmet Whole Foods Catering and Cooking School in Milford, Connecticut.

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