Easy Southern Fried Pies Recipe

When a dessert is this quick, easy, and delicious it becomes a family favorite!

You can use homemade biscuit dough, homemade pie dough, or pick up a can of biscuits in the refrigerated section of your store. Keep it simple!

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• ❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
• 🧾 Ingredients
• 🔪 Instructions
• 🎥 Video
• 💭 Tips
• 👩🏻‍🍳 FAQs
• Related recipes
• 📞 The last word
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❤️ Why you'll love this recipe

• SO easy
• Uses convenience foods to cut down on time and mess
• Easily pan fried

Traditional hand pie recipes are delicious but take time that most of us don't have on a regular basis. This fried pie recipe uses easy to find convenience foods to cut the prep time down to 5 minutes!

🧾 Ingredients

A couple of quick notes about ingredients for this easy fried pies recipe.

The bourbon or lemon juice is completely optional - and you'll want to match the liquid you use to your fruit filling. For example:

• Blueberry pie filling with amaretto
• Apple pie filling with bourbon or rum
• Peach pie filling with bourbon or amaretto

You can also use ginger ale. The point of adding this small amount of liquid is to give more flavor to the pie filling which is sometimes a little flat and bland.

Also, I use peanut oil because it's light and has a high smoke point. If there are allergies or you prefer to use something else any light frying oil will work.

🔪 Instructions

Note: This is an overview of the instructions. The full instructions are in the green recipe card below.

Step 1

1. Open your can of pie filling and add to a bowl.
2. Chop large slices of fruit into bite sized pieces.
3. Stir in the bourbon or other liquid ingredients.

Step 2

1. If you are using frozen biscuit dough let it come to room temperature.
2. Lightly flour your countertop.
3. Roll out each biscuit to the size of a saucer, about ⅛-inch thick or a little less.

Step 3

1. Lift up the dough circles to make sure they're not sticking.
2. Lightly dust with more flour if needed.
3. Add about two tablespoons of fruit pie filling to the center of each biscuit round.

Step 4

1. Dampen the edges with a little water or egg white.
2. Fold over and press with the tines of the fork to seal.
3. Cut a slit in the top to let steam escape.

Step 5

1. Heat the oil in a heavy skillet until it's about 300 degrees.
2. Add a couple of the pies at a time.
3. Don't crowd the skillet!

Step 6

1. Fry for about 3 minutes, or until golden on the bottom.
2. Turn and fry on the other side until golden.

Step 7

1. Drain on paper towel.
2. Change the paper towels often - they won't absorb oil if they are soaked.

Step 8

1. Brush the top with melted butter.
2. Add, butter side down, to the cinnamon and sugar mixture.
3. Brush the other side with melted butter.
4. Turn to coat the whole pastry in cinnamon and sugar.

Step 9

Serve warm

🎥 Video

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💭 Tips

Expert Tip: Be sure not to crowd the pan when frying - the oil will cool down too much and the fried pies will be greasy.

• Some people like to use pie crust. I like the fluffier texture of the biscuit crust and I think it holds up better. You can use either.
• You can bake these if you prefer. You lose some of the character of a southern fried pie but they're still yummy. Bake at 375F for 10-15 minutes.
• Any kind of canned pie filling will work, including lemon, coconut, pecan, or chocolate.
• Do not leave the pies on paper towel for too long when you take them out of the fryer. You want to brush with butter and then quickly dredge them in the cinnamon and sugar mixture while piping hot.
• If you aren't eating them right away let them cool on a rack so the bottoms don't get soggy.
• Some people prefer a glaze on their fried pies. Just mix powdered sugar with enough milk to make a thick glaze and spoon it over the hot pies while they are on a rack.

👩🏻‍🍳 FAQs

Here are the most commonly asked questions about this recipe. If you don't find the answer to yours here leave a comment below or email me - I'll get back to you as soon as I can!

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📞 The last word

At some point in my life I decided to stop being the best at every. single. thing.

I decided that done was better than perfect.

I decided that making quick and easy fried pies for my family to enjoy regularly was better than making my original recipe (which takes a couple of hours - but as my 17 year old says... it SMACKS) once a year.

So I begin cutting corners and creating shortcuts - because I want to enjoy making memories with my family - not watching as they enjoy making memories without me.

And I figured out how to make fried pies the easy way.

I hope you love these as much as I do.

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First published August 19, 2020. Last updated April 9, 2021 for additional tips and instructions.