Magic Key Lime Pie

Key limes person a bracing acidity and instrumentality a batch of clip to prep (when you tin find them); by making your ain sweetened condensed beverage for this recipe, though, you tin usage regular limes and inactive execute that cleanable equilibrium of flavors for the pie.

Homemade sweetened condensed beverage traditionally requires ultra-low vigor and up to 6 hours of changeless stirring. Pastry cook Stella Parks adds a splash of dense pick to forestall scorching and cranks up the vigor truthful it’s done successful astir 45 minutes.

The sweetened condensed beverage tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 1 month. The pie, minus its topping, needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 4 hours and up to 3 days.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 12, without the topping)

• Calories

  270

• Fat

  14 g

• Saturated Fat

  7 g

• Carbohydrates

  30 g

• Sodium

  100 mg

• Cholesterol

  155 mg

• Protein

  6 g

• Sugar

  21 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts,” by Stella Parks (W.W. Norton, August, 2017).

Tested by Jane Black .