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Key Lime Pie Recipe
United States
⏱ 3 h
Hard
Key Lime Pie — a classic United States Dessert.
Ingredients
- 300g Digestive Biscuits
- 150g Butter
- 400g Condensed Milk Buy: Al Fajr Sweetened Condensed Milk · ₺149.99
- 3 Egg Yolks
- 4 Lime Buy: Dried Yellow Lime · ₺39.99
- 300ml Double Cream
- 1 tbls Icing Sugar
- to serve Lime Buy: Dried Yellow Lime · ₺39.99
Preparation
- Heat the oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3.
- Whizz the biscuits to crumbs in a food processor (or put in a strong plastic bag and bash with a rolling pin).
- Mix with the melted butter and press into the base and up the sides of a 22cm loose-based tart tin.
- Bake in the oven for 10 minutes.
- Remove and cool.
- Put the egg yolks in a large bowl and whisk for a minute with electric beaters.
- Add the condensed milk and whisk for 3 minutes then add the zest and juice and whisk again for 3 minutes.
- Pour the filling into the cooled base then put back in the oven for 15 minutes.
- Cool then chill for at least 3 hours or overnight if you like.
- When you are ready to serve, carefully remove the pie from the tin and put on a serving plate.
- To decorate, softly whip together the cream and icing sugar.
- Dollop or pipe the cream onto the top of the pie and finish with extra lime zest.