Nutty Graham Cracker Crust

Total Time: 37 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 7 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup coarsely chopped walnuts or 3/4 cup pecans or 3/4 cup dry roasted peanuts or 3/4 cup undyed pistachios
• 2 tablespoons firmly packed light brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 cup graham cracker crumbs
• 2 tablespoons graham cracker crumbs
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 pinch salt (big pinch)
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted

Recipe

• 1 lightly butter pie pan and set aside.
• 2 combine nuts, brown sugar, and flour in the container of a food processor; process in a number of long bursts until the nuts are very finely chopped.
• 3 transfer the mixture into a big bowl.
• 4 run your fingers through the mixture, breaking up any bigger pieces the machine may have missed.
• 5 stir in the graham cracker crumbs, cinnamon, and salt.
• 6 add in the butter and mix well.
• 7 mix first with a fork, then with your hands, and rub everything together thoroughly to form evenly dampened crumbs.
• 8 spread the crumbs evenly and loosely in the pie pan, pressing them into the bottom and up the side.
• 9 refrigerate 5-10 minutes.
• 10 place on the center oven rack in a 350° oven and bake 7 minutes.
• 11 let cool on wire rack before filling.
• 12 for ice cream pies or other icebox pies, refrigerate the thoroughly cooled pie shell for 10 minutes before filling.