Orange pie in the oven

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare all the necessary ingredients for cooking orange pie in the oven. Since the orange is almost all going into the pie, it needs to be thoroughly washed. This should be done with a brush and hot water. I also wash them with household soap for insurance and rinse them thoroughly, who knows what hands he went through. Immediately turn on the oven to warm up to 180 degrees.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wipe the orange and rub the zest on a fine grater on one side. On the other side, cut the zest and cut into thin strips. The zest should be cut very thinly without the white part, which gives bitterness.

3. Step 3:

   

   Cut off the white part from the remaining orange and cut out the segments without films. Cut the cut flesh into medium pieces. The rest can be simply eaten or added to the compote. Of course, you can just clean it with your hands, disassemble it into segments and remove the film from each. But then the cooking time will double.

4. Step 4:

   

   Break the eggs and separate the yolks from the whites. Put the proteins in a clean, cold bowl of the mixer and put them in the refrigerator for now. Combine the yolks with half the sugar and grind into a foam until white.

5. Step 5:

   

   Set the mixer bowl and whisk the whites with a pinch of salt into a fluffy foam. Continuing to beat, add sugar gradually and beat until a homogeneous dense mass.

6. Step 6:

   

   Put the grated zest into the whipped whites.

7. Step 7:

   

   Add the ground yolks to the bowl with the whites and zest.

8. Step 8:

   

   Sift the flour through a fine sieve directly into a bowl with beaten eggs and zest.

10. Step 9:

    

    Now gently mix with a plastic spatula to leave the air with which we have saturated the masses. You need to do this from the bottom up, as if folding the dough up. We do this until a homogeneous mass.

11. Step 10:

    

    Put the pieces and oranges and mix gently again.

12. Step 11:

    

    Silicone mold or metal with Teflon coating is lubricated with vegetable oil. We shift the biscuit mass and level the surface. I have a shape with a diameter of 18 cm. It can be used with a diameter of 16 or 20 cm. Be careful! The height of the cake also depends on the size of the mold, so the baking time may change up or down.

13. Step 12:

    

    We put the orange pie to bake in a hot 180C oven for about 25-30 minutes, until ready (focus on your technique). The top should turn light brown, the pie is dense when pressed. And if you stick a wooden skewer, then it should remain dry when it is removed.

14. Step 13:

    

    Remove from the oven and leave in the mold for 10 minutes. Then we remove it from the mold and let it cool completely. We put it on a large dish, sprinkle with powdered sugar and chopped zest.

15. Step 14:

    

    We serve our delicious orange pie with tea, coffee or just milk.

16. Step 15:

    

    Bon appetit.