Best Pawpaw Cream Pie Recipes

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PAWPAW CREAM PIE



Pawpaw Cream Pie image

A recipe for cream pie pawpaw style. The Fruit The delicious and nutritious fruit look like short, fat bananas. They have a fragrant aroma, a custardy texture, and a tropical taste. The best ones are rich, creamy and sweet, reminding some people of banana cream pie. Compared to apples, peaches and grapes, Pawpaw is higher in food...

Provided by Penny Hall

Categories     Pies

Time 50m

Number Of Ingredients 10

3/4 cups sugar
1/3 cup flour or 1/4 cup cornstarch
3 egg yolks slightly beaten
1 cup milk
1 cup light cream
1 cup pawpaw pulp (seeded)
3 egg whites
3 tbsp sugar
pinch of salt
1 baked 9 inch pastry shell

Steps:

  • 1. Combine sugar and flour or cornstarch. Add the beaten egg yolks, milk, and cream. Mix well and add pawpaw pulp. Cook and stir constantly over low heat until thickened. Cool. Make a meringue by beating the egg whites stiff with 3 Tbsp. sugar and a pinch of salt. Pour custard into a baked pastry shell and cover with meringue. Bake in a moderate oven (350o F) for 12 minutes or until meringue is browned. Serves 6 to 8.

PAWPAW BANANA CREAM PIE



Pawpaw Banana Cream Pie image

My grandma and I decided to try making a pawpaw pie from a recipe we got at http://www.pawpaw.kysu.edu. Well, we ran out of pawpaw and had to fill in the rest with banana, we had to substitute half-and-half for light cream (which the original recipe called for), and it turned out pretty good. I learned a lot about pawpaw by working with this recipe. The skin is thin and attached to the pulp pretty well, so you need to peel it with a vegetable peeler. Also, the nickel-sized seeds are found throughout the fruit and come attached to a fair amount of pulp. It worked best for me to rub the seeds against a strainer to maximize the amount of pulp I got out of it. The seeds are covered with a membrane that's probably very nutricious, but if you're a texture eater you might not want this in your pie, as it's different from your chunks of soft fruit. I got 3/4 cups of pawpaw from two large fruits. Pawpaws come pretty small in the first place, so when I say large I mean the largest ones I saw in the bunch at the store. In Ohio, Whole Foods and Wild Oats carry the fruit. Ripe pawpaws are green with some dark brown or black spots on them. This is not an attractive or easy to work with fruit. It's mushy, messy to work with, and looks unappetizing with the skin on. This is a fruit that has only recently become cultivated for the market and genetic selectivity and spraying hasn't made it pretty like the painted oranges and waxed mangos you find in the store. A note to our Aussie and Kiwi friends: Pawpaw in North America is a tropical-like fruit native to the continent and not papaya.

Provided by Valeria

Categories     Pie

Time 1h10m

Yield 8 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 12

3/4 cup white sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch
3 egg yolks, slightly beaten
1 cup milk
1 cup half-and-half
3/4 cup pureed pawpaw
1/4 cup mashed banana
3 egg whites
3 tablespoons sugar
1 pinch salt
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
9 inches baked pie crusts

Steps:

  • Combine sugar and corn starch. Add beaten egg yolks, milk and cream and mix well. Mix pawpaw pulp and mashed banana, add to egg mixture.
  • Cook and stir constantly over medium-low heat until thickened to the consistency of thick chunky pudding (think banana cream pie filling). Let cool.
  • Make meringue by beating the egg whites stiff with 3 tablespoons sugar, a pinch of salt and cream of tartar.
  • Pour custard into baked pastry shell and cover with meringue. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes or until meringue is browned.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 315.4, Fat 13.7, SaturatedFat 5.3, Cholesterol 86.3, Sodium 187.8, Carbohydrate 43.4, Fiber 1.3, Sugar 25.3, Protein 5.7

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