Pie Recipes

Juicy Mango Pie

As with all great dessert recipes for pies, you must be patient when you prepare the pie crust. Minimise handling with your palms to avoid a heavy crust.

This Juicy Mango Pie recipe calls for fleshy mango, so buy those huge meaty mangoes which are bound to be juicy and sweet. Not too sweet though or your filling will stench when cooked. Add brandy or Amaretto Liqueur to enhance the flavour of the mango filling.


Ingredients For Crust (9" Pie Crust)

1 1/3 cups		        	All-Purpose Flour
1 tbsp				Castor Sugar
1/2 tsp				Salt
2 to 3 tbsp		        	Chilled Water
150 g			        	Cold Butter; cut into small pieces

Ingredients for Filling
600 g			        	Sweet Mango Flesh; not over-ripe
1 1/2 tbsp		        	Lemon Juice
1/3 cup 				Fine Sugar
1/4 cup 				Water
1 tbsp				Corn Starch
1 tbsp				Brandy or Amaretto Liqueur

Method

To Prepare Crust:
Sift together flour, castor sugar and salt. Using a pastry cutter, cut cold butter into flour mixture until resembles breadcrumbs. Sprinkle iced water onto flour mixture and mix with fingertips into a dough. Wrap with clingwrap and chill until dough is firm enough to be rolled.

Lightly flour your worktop and rolling pin. Roll into a circle wide enough to line your greased pie dish.Trim away the extra edges and press the rim with a fork. Prick the base of the dough with the fork. Bake pie crust at 180°C for 20 to 30 minutes or until golden brown. If you see air bubbles forming at the base, prick the base with a fork a few times during initial 5 to 10 minutes of baking. Allow to cool before storing in the fridge.

To Prepare Filling
Cut out 4 slices of mangoes lengthwise and about 1/4" thick. Sprinkle with 1 1/2 tsp of lemon juice and leave aside.

Mash remaining mango flesh into puree and cook over low heat with sugar, remaining lemon and water. Cook until sugar has dissolved. Then add in corn starch and continue cooking until puree becomes thick. keep stirring. Let cool. Stir in brandy or Amaretto Liqueur.

Arrange mango slices in the baked pastry crust as desired. Pour puree over these mango slices, ensuring fully covered. Chill well for about 3 hours.

Most delicious when served with whipped cream.

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