Canistel-Banana Crème “Pumpkin” Pie

This simple 3-ingredient recipe has rivaled and surpassed pumpkin pies at mixed-diet potlucks I’ve attended for years.

It is comprised of sweet fruits to enjoy as a dinner alone, or as a lunch.

Enjoy and Aloha! 🙂

 

Ingredients:

3-7 medium Canistel (AKA Eggfruit), as orange as possible

7-10 medium Bananas (any variety you like)

15-25 Mejool Dates (substition: any variety you like), soaking is optional

drinking water (as needed to blend smooth)

Equipment:

9″ glass pie dish (substition: other pie dish)

Food processor or blender (substition: large bowl with vegetable masher or fork)

knife

spoon

Directions:

      1. Filling: scoop all canistel into food processor (or substitution) and one or two bananas and blend, adding drinking water (or date soak water if you soaked the dates) as needed. You want to use as much of the orange colored eggfruit as possible in order to get the look of pumpkin pie, and reserve your bananas as filler and to obtain a creamy texture.
      2. Taste the filling and if it is not sweet enough for you, add some dates (use soaked ones first if you soaked them). Remember the pie will be eaten with the crust, which is all dates so this will sweeten the pie overall as well.

      1. Crust: Cut dates in half, and remove pits if not already removed. Reserve one date half for decorating the top if you like. Either press date halves directly onto pie plate with inside toward plate, or chop them (by hand or with the food processor) first.

    1. Pour filling into crust.
    2. Optional: Slice half of date reserved for decorating into long thin slices. Arrange slices to radiate from the center, or any other design desired. Photo has one round slice of banana in the center.
    3. Serve, or refrigerate until serving.

 

Additional Resources

Retreats:


Cultivate Your Inner Chef

 


Practical Skills To Thrive


Books:


Simply Delicious Fall Retreat Menu


Simply Delicious SALADS and SLAWS


Simply Delicious DESSERTS


Simply Delicious SOUPS

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About Janie Gardener

Janie Gardener's background in areas such as business, Natural Hygiene, the 80/10/10 lifestyle, photography, computer programming, web development, fine arts, crafts, and graphic arts, in a variety of media and platforms, has allowed her to step in and work with us as a consultant as needed since 2005. She has also been attending and/or working at our Washington State events as our Ambiance Fairy, and other areas of responsibility there as needed. Also known as Jungle Janie, she first started eating a vegetarian diet in college in 1984, and transitioned into a vegan diet within a year. Janie has been practicing a natural hygienic lifestyle since the mid-1980's, and 80/10/10 since June 2002. Her story as of the first printing of The 80/10/10 Diet is in the appendix. Until September 2017, she had been living on the “Garden Island” of Kauai for over 24 years, where, between working with us and other clients, she was focused on a long-term goal of an organic Permaculture agro-forestry homesteading off-grid lifestyle. She and Darrel have been traveling the US Mainland since our 2017 retreats and will be at the 2018 retreats as well.