Florida Key Lime Pie

A new little trip to the USA?

This is what happened with this pie recipe, a culinary specialty of Florida, called "Key Lime Pie", in other words, lime pie from the Keys (archipelago in southern Florida).

I tasted it during a trip to Florida, in these typical "diners", these American restaurants where they serve you burgers, pies at any time of the day. It was a pure delight!

It will remind you in some ways of lemon meringue pie, but this "Key Lime Pie" is much softer and, I find, less sweet than the first.

Here in a few points, the stages of its preparation:

- 250g digestive biscuits (English dry biscuits)

- 1 can of sweetened condensed milk (400g)

- 3 egg yolks

- 5 limes for the juice + 1 for decoration

- 120g of butter

For the whipped cream: 20cl of whole liquid cream + 1 tbsp of icing sugar

Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.

Mix the biscuits in a food processor and mix them with the melted butter. Mix well to obtain a smooth dough. Pour this dough onto the bottom of a pie dish, pressing well with the back of a tablespoon.

Bake this dough for 10 minutes, then let cool.

Meanwhile, mix the sweetened condensed milk with the egg yolks until smooth. Add the lemon juice and mix well.

Pour this mixture over the tart base, and bake for 15 minutes at 160 ° C.

Let cool and refrigerate.

To prepare the whipped cream, I used a siphon into which I poured the liquid cream mixed with icing sugar.

Decorate each piece of pie with a touch of whipped cream and a slice of lime.

All that's left to do is taste... Enjoy!