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Create delicious pies and quiches that are lower in calories and higher in fiber than many other recipes. This Healthy Pie Crust Recipe only calls for 3 ingredients and is vegan and gluten-free.
Don’t skip out on your favorite holiday desserts or savory dishes; instead, try this low-calorie pie crust to make them fit your lifestyle. A few simple swaps result in a tender, crumbly crust for your favorite pumpkin pie that’s vegan and gluten-free. This crust is easy to make and doesn’t require any rolling or special baking tools. Use it to keep enjoying pies and quiches, without all of the extra calories.
Use this crust to make delicious, healthy pie recipes, like my healthy caramel pecan pie and low-calorie pumpkin pie!
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Only 3 Ingredients: This low-fat pie crust only calls for 3 simple ingredients – gluten-free rolled oats, coconut sugar, and extra virgin olive oil.
- Great for Desserts and Quiches: This is the perfect pie crust for sweet pies and tarts or for savory dishes like quiche. You can adjust the sugar to make it match your dish.
- No Rolling or Special Baking Tools: This crust is so easy! You don’t even need to roll it out with a rolling pin, and you don’t need pie weights to bake it.
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Healthy Pie Crust Ingredients
- Gluten-Free Rolled Oats: Blend gluten-free rolled oats in a food processor to make your own gluten-free oat flour. If you don’t need a gluten-free crust, you can use regular rolled oats instead.
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil: The olive oil is a healthier fat that is going to hold the crust together and provide moisture for the dough.
- Coconut Sugar: This naturally derived sugar has a lower glycemic index and is perfect for healthier desserts. You could also use stevia or regular sugar, depending on your dietary preferences or needs.
See the recipe card below for exact ingredient amounts, nutritional information, and detailed instructions.
Variations & Dietary Modifications
- Try With Butter: If you don’t need this crust to be dairy-free and don’t mind some extra fat, you can make the crust with butter. This will give it a rich, buttery flavor.
- Adjust the Sugar: This crust is versatile to meet your needs. If you’re making a pie or a sweet dish, you can use the amount of coconut sugar listed in the recipe. For savory dishes, like a healthy quiche, reduce or cut the sugar out completely.
- Make a Chocolate Crust: Put a fun spin on traditional pies and make a chocolate crust by adding a little cocoa powder to the oats when you blend them.
How to Make a Healthy Pie Crust
This 3-ingredient healthier pie crust is a great lower-calorie and gluten-free alternative for the holidays. You’ll need a 9-inch baking dish greased with olive oil and an oven preheated to 375°F to make this simple crust.
Step 1: Blend the Oats. Place the oats in a blender or food processor and blend for 2-3 minutes until they become the consistency of flour. Add the homemade flour to a mixing bowl.
Step 2: Combine the Ingredients. Add the coconut sugar and a bit of salt to the oat flour. Create a well in the center of the mixture and add the olive oil. Stir the oil in until it becomes crumbly. Add 4 tablespoons of water to the mixture, one tablespoon at a time.
Step 4: Stir and Form the Dough. Stir the dough until it becomes slightly moist and sticky. The batter may still fall apart, but it will stick together if you pinch it. If it doesn’t, add more water.
Step 3: Press Into the Pie Dish. Gently press the dough into the prepared pie dish using your fingers. Press it flat and even across the bottom and sides of the greased pie dish. Store the unbaked pie shell in the refrigerator until you’re ready to bake it or bake it immediately at 375°F for 10 minutes.
Expert Tips
- Measure the Flour Correctly: It’s important to measure gluten-free flours properly when baking with them. It’s best to spoon flour into your measuring cups instead of scooping the measuring cup directly into the flour and packing it in. If you have any questions about your specific flour, refer to my guide on how to measure gluten-free flours.
- Skip the Pie Weights: Since this crust is gluten-free, the oat flour doesn’t rise on its own while it bakes. This means you don’t need pie weights, beans, or other weights in the pan to keep the crust flat.
- Preheat a Baking Pan and Place Under the Pie Pan: Ensure that your crust is crisp in the middle by preheating a baking sheet in the oven. Then place the pie dish directly on the baking sheet when you bake your pie.
- Storing the Pie Crust: Store your uncooked pie shell covered in the pie tin in the refrigerator for up to 10 days before baking.
Serving Suggestions
This low-sugar pie crust is a great alternative to a store-bought or traditional crust. It’s full of fiber, low-calorie, and has only 3 ingredients. Fill it with your favorite pie ingredients, make a healthier pie, or use it to make a lower-calorie breakfast quiche. This firm and crumbly crust is delicious, and no one will even realize it’s gluten-free.
- Try this oat flour crust instead of an almond flour crust for my gluten-free apple pie recipe.
- Enjoy a quiche Lorraine for breakfast using this healthier crust.
- This crust is perfect for making a healthier pie for the holidays. You can also check my healthier Thanksgiving recipes for more easy ideas.
- Make this crust and fill it with my healthy chicken pot pie casserole for a rich and savory homemade pot pie.
Low-Calorie Pie Crust Recipe FAQs
If the edges of your crust start to brown before the center of the crust is finished baking, you can cover the edges with aluminum foil or use a pie crust over to stop it from baking too much.
I’ve never tried freezing this crust, so I can’t recommend it or not. The dough is so easy to make that I don’t think freezing would be worth it.
Absolutely! Making your own oat flour is so easy, but if you don’t want to put in the time or effort, you can buy gluten-free oat flour.
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Healthy Pie Crust Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups Rolled Oats, or gluten-free rolled oats not quick oats
- ¼ cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil, plus more for greasing the pie dish
- 2 teaspoon Coconut Sugar, or sugar of choice
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Prepare a 9-inch pie dish by greasing with olive oil.
- Blend the oats in a blender or food processor 2-3 minutes until it becomes a flour mixture.
- Transfer blended oats to a mixing bowl and stir with sugar and salt to combine.
- Make a well in the center of the mixture, add olive oil and stir until crumbly. Add 4 tablespoons of water, one tablespoon at time to the mixture, while stirring until the dough becomes slightly moist and sticky.
- The batter may still fall apart, but will stick together easily if you pinch it together. If it doesn't, add 1-2 tablespoons of water more.
- Press the dough into the prepared pie dish. Press it flat and even across the bottom and up the sides.
- You can either 1) store the unbaked pie shell in the refrigerator in the pan until you're ready to bake a pie or 2) bake it at 375 F for 10 minutes until golden brown. If you bake it ahead of time, you can bake a pie in it after it cools or store the pie crust in the refrigerator up to 10 days until you make a pie.
Notes
- It’s very important to measure gluten-free flour properly for baking to achieve the desired consistency. Oat flour should be spooned into the measuring cups rather than scooped directly from the bag and packed in.
- Gluten-free flour doesn’t rise without a leavening agent, so this crust doesn’t require pie weights to keep the center flat.
- Ensure that your crust is crisp in the middle by preheating a baking sheet in the oven and baking the pie dish directly on top of the hot baking sheet.
- Store the uncooked pie shell in the refrigerator for up to 10 days before baking.
- Do not use quick oats for this recipe.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This has been my go-to pie crust for at least a year now, especially for quiches. I love the texture it adds and how easy/mess free it is to make. I leave out the sugar when making it for a quiche and often sub in butter for the olive oil because I’m willing to make it a little less healthy for the added flavor of butter : P
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Would this work as a pizza crust?
The texture is more adjacent to a graham cracker crust in terms of being a firm and crumbly, so I don’t think it would make an amazing alternative for a pizza crust
I’m so happy I found this pie crust recipe. I’ve made it twice in 2 days. I wanted an alternative to white flour and more hearty than almond flour. Followed the recipe exactly as written. Very easy.
I’ve used the pie crust both times with Megan’s Healthy Caramel Pecan Pie recipe, the oat flour compliments the pie so well. I’ll be trying the 2nd pie today with the caramel sauce since I’m bringing it for a family dinner.
I used this for pumpkin pie and subbed olive oil for coconut oil. It was amazing! Thanks for the recipe!
I was wondering if coconut oil would give the same results thanks for the response it helps a lot!!
I have not tried it. It will likely work, but it will need to be warmed first then cooled slightly vs. using solid coconut oil. It will also make the pie crust taste like coconut. The benefit of using olive oil is it is a neutral flavor.
can you use avocado oil instead of olive oil?
I have not tried it, but I imagine you could.
Any idea if it would work for hand pies?
I’m sorry but 1/4 cup of olive oil and you call this low calorie? That alone is around 500kcal. If you add the oats and the rest (which is around another 500kcal), that is certainly not a low calorie crust (I don’t say it’s not healthy, but healthy is not always low in calories…).
This pie crust is a low calorie crust at 120 calories PER SLICE. Per nutritional guidelines, this is considered a low calorie recipe. If you were eating the entire pie crust then it would certainly not be low calorie. I don’t know what your definition is of low calorie, but it is not a healthy one if you believe 120 calories for one slice is too many calories.
I’ve lost over 50 lbs this year. Hoping to loose another 50 in the next 6 to 8 months. My AlC is critically high. I’ve got old fashioned rolled oats already on hand. I do not cook much anymore, but I am cooking for a church party for Christmas. I am making a healthier version of cheesecake with Stevia. If I use your recipe with the old fashioned oats and add cinnamon and ginger and and substitute 2 tsp of brown sugar instead of coconut sugar and toast it in the oven…do you think the oats would be cooked enough for a no bake cheesecake?
Turned out perfectly!!!! Thank you! I’ll use this a ton I’m sure!