Banana Coconut "Cream" Black Bottom Pie: Dairy and Grain Free
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Gluten Free
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Serves: 10
 
Banana Coconut "Cream" Black Bottom Pie: Dairy and Grain Free
Ingredients
Custard:
  • 2 yolks
  • 1½ cup of reduced-fat coconut milk (if you want a thick custard, use whole fat-we used reduced-fat)
  • ¼ cup of agave
  • 1½ tbsp starch (corn, potato, tapioca, or arrowroot)
  • ½ tsp vanilla
  • pinch of salt
Crust:
  • 1¼ c almond meal (take almonds and grind to powder in
  • Vitamix
  • or other powerful blender)
  • ½ cup chopped dark chocolate, about 3 oz. (we used 72% dark, vegan)
  • 2 tbsp grapeseed oil
  • 2 tbsp agave nectar
Assembly:
  • 2 bananas
  • 3 tbsp dried coconut (we used low-fat)
  • ½ lemon (about 1 tbsp); juiced
  • Shavings of dark chocolate
Instructions
  1. To make the custard: whisk sugar, starch, and salt, adding in the coconut milk, yolks, whisking constantly until low boil (don't let come to rapid boil). Once thickened, turn off heat and add in vanilla. Cool, covered.
  2. To make crust: melt chocolate in microwave or double boiler. Mix almond meal, oil, and melted chocolate, and agave. Pour into ungreased pie 9" pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes (until you smell it). Remove and let cool completely.
  3. When ready to serve, slice bananas into thin pieces and mix with lemon juice
  4. Pour custard into pie crust, topping with bananas in concentric circles.
  5. Gently toast coconut in dry omelette pan on low heat, until lightly browned.
  6. Top pie with coconut and shavings of dark chocolate if desired. Chill to set
  7. If you want a firmer pie, you can freeze this. It was great both frozen and not.
Notes
Also contains 116 mg of potassium per serving. Could definitely serve more than 10, but we made nutrition based on 10 servings.
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 1/10 Calories: 236 Fat: 16 g Carbohydrates: 21 g Sugar: 14 g Fiber: 3.1 g Protein: 3.8 g Cholesterol: 36.8 mg
Recipe by Garden Fresh Foodie at https://gardenfreshfoodie.com/healthy-desserts/banana-coconut-cream-black-bottom-pie-dairy-and-grain-free/