Coconut Pie

I made this during the holiday season although it may be made anytime. A rich, eggy coconut pie that is semi-sweet and voluptuous . 

Coconut Pie

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make homemade pie pastry 

or use 1 unbaked 9-inch deep dish pie shell

1 can sweetened condensed milk

3/4 cup flaked coconut

2 eggs

1/2 cup hot water

grated lime pee of 1 lime

juice from 1 lime

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon ground red pepper

whipped cream, optional

fruit, optional

Preheat oven to 400ºF.

Make your favourite pie crust and form the crust into a deep pie dish. Prick holes in the bottom of the crust with a fork and bake for 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool for about 15 minutes on a wire rack. If using a ready made deep pie shell do the same as just stated.

Reduce the oven temperature to 350ºF. In a large bowl combine sweetened condensed milk, coconut, eggs, water, lime peel, lime juice, salt and pepper. Pour into crust.

Bake 30 minutes or until knife inserted into centre comes out clean. Cool completely on a wire rack.

Serve with whipped cream or fruit, if you wish. 

Notes: Ovens vary therefore I found I had to bake the pie for an additional 20 minutes, for a total bake time of 50 minutes.

The winter break is over. Time to settle back into a regular routine. Hope everyone had a lovely weekend! - JD 

Luscious Coconut Desserts

Anything with coconut catches my eye and my stomach. This simple and indulgent cookbook offers over 50 recipes dedicated to the fragrant and delicate coconut. Until most recently coconut seemed exotic... reserved faraway on tropical islands. With coconut water surfacing on shelves, nutrient rich coconut sugar placed on tables and coconut oil becoming a pantry staple. The coconut has made a culinary resurgence.

Throughout the 143 pages and 8 chapters the recipes focus entirely on sweet than savoury. I suppose when one does think of coconut one leans towards the sweeter rather than the savoury side. I would have preferred a more rounded cookbook on coconut seeing how this is the only cookbook I have focused on coconut. Regardless I will enjoy this cookbook for what it has to offer. The photographs are full page and not overly glossy. The front cover reminds me, and I do not know why, of the many food photographs from vintage Betty Crocker cookbooks. It could be the colour combination, the font... who knows. The table of equivalents always comes in handy as with any cookbook. If you luv coconut then you will absolutely enjoy this book.

Recipes that I want to try are the Elegant Coconut and Curry Butter Cookies, Classic Toasted Coconut Cream Pie, Coconut-Caramel Popcorn, Ginger Beer Ice Cream Float, Luscious Coconut Layer Cake, Deep Dark Chocolate, Coconut, and Ginger Brownies and the Coconut and Pistachio Baklava.  

If you luv coconut then you will absolutely enjoy this book. And even if you do not these recipes could change that. I think I will make the Elegant Coconut and Curry Butter Cookies today. And I will post about it and the recipe tomorrow.

Have a good day everyone! - JW