Lemon Chess Pie With Blackberry Compote

From Gourmet Today. All ingredients should be room temperature or your pie might be eggy and curdle. The buttermilk, eggs, lemon juice etc... The compote can be made up to 4 days ahead of time. Keep covered in the refrigerator and stir in the berries just before serving.

• Ready In: 2 hrs
• Serves: 8

Ingredients

• Blackberry Compote

• 1⁄2 cup water
• 1⁄3 cup sugar
• 1 1⁄2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 3 -4  whole allspice
• 3  cups fresh blackberries (1 1/2 pints) or 3  cups frozen blackberries (1 1/2 pints)

• Coconut Crust

• 3⁄4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1⁄3 cup  unsweetened  desiccated coconut
• 1  teaspoon sugar
• 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
• 5  tablespoons  cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces (1/3 cup)
• 1  teaspoon  cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces (1/3 cup)
• 2 1⁄2 tablespoons  ice water

• Lemon Filling

• 6  large eggs
• 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
• 6  tablespoons  well-shaken buttermilk
• 3  tablespoons yellow cornmeal
• 4  teaspoons  finely grated fresh lemon zest
• 6  tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 1  pinch  freshly grated nutmeg
• 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, melted

Directions

1. Make the Compote: Bring water, sugar, juice, and allspice to a boil in a small saucepan over moderate heat, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Boil until reduced to about 1/4 cup. Cool syrup to lukewarm and discard allspice.
2. Purée 2 cups blackberries with all of syrup in a blender. Force purée through a fine sieve into a bowl to remove seeds. Stir remaining cup berries into sauce.
3. Make coconut crust: Pulse flour, coconut, sugar, and salt in a food processor several times to mix. Add butter and pulse until most of mixture resembles coarse meal, with remainder in pea-size lumps. Add water and pulse just until mixture forms a dough. (Do not overmix or pastry will be tough.)
4. Flatten dough into a disk, then chill, covered in plastic wrap, 30 minutes.
5. Shape and bake crust: Preheat oven to 350°F.
6. Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface into a 12-inch round, then fit into a 9-inch pie plate. Crimp edge and prick bottom and sides all over.
7. Line shell with foil and fill with pie weights. Bake in middle of oven 15 minutes, then carefully remove foil and weights and bake shell until pale golden, 5 to 10 minutes more. Transfer shell to a rack to cool 5 minutes.
8. Reduce temperature to 325°F
9. Make filling: Whisk together eggs, sugar, and salt until well blended. Whisk in buttermilk, cornmeal, zest, juice, and nutmeg. Gradually whisk in butter until smooth. Pour filling into pie shell. Cover edge of pie crust with foil to prevent overbrowning .
10. Bake until custard is just set, about 40 minutes. Transfer pie to rack to cool completely.