Best Americana Key Lime Pie Recipe

Here’s another great dessert recipe – best Americana Key Lime Pie. I love this delicious dessert and it reminds me of my visit to Key West a few years ago and really enjoying an authentic Americana dish. 

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Americana Key Lime Pie

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Dessert, Key Lime Pie

Ingredients

• 1 T Unflavored gelatin (1 env.)
• 1/2 c Sugar
• 1/4 t Salt
• 4 Egg yolks
• 1/2 c Lime juice
• 1/4 c Water
• 1 t Grated lime peel
• 1 Few drops green food color
• 4 Egg whites
• 1/2 c Sugar
• 1 c Heavy cream whipped
• 1 9-in baked pastry shell
• 1 Pistachio nuts chopped
• 1 Lime slices for garnish
• 1 Heavy cream whipped, to top

Instructions

• Thoroughly mix gelatin, 1/2 cup sugar, and salt in saucepan.
• Beat together egg yolks, lime juice, and water; stir into gelatin mixture.
• Cook and stir over medium heat just till mixture comes to boiling.
• Remove from heat; stir in grated peel. Add food coloring sparingly to tint pale green.
• Chill, stirring occasionally, until the mixture mounds slightly when dropped from a spoon.
• Beat egg whites till soft peaks form; gradually add 1/2 c sugar, beating to stiff peaks.
• Fold gelatin mixture into egg whites.
• Fold in whipped cream. Pile into cooled baked pastry shell. Chill till firm.
• Spread with more whipped cream; edge with grated lime peel.
• Sprinkle chopped pistachio nuts in center.
• Garnish with thinly sliced lime placed in whipped cream mounds around edge of pie.