Zucchini Pie "mock Apple Pie"

Submitted by Serena 485247

"If you never told a soul they would think that you were serving them real apple pie, instead of zucchini pie.... it's that good"

 

• Ready In: 55mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 2 pies
• Serves: 14

ingredients

• 18 inches regular pie crusts
• 2 rolled pie crusts (or just make your own crusts)
• 6 cups zucchini, pealed (sliced or chunked)
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 dash salt
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 1⁄4 teaspoons cinnamon
• 2 1⁄4 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1 dash nutmeg
• 4 1⁄2 tablespoons flour

directions

1. pre heat oven to 400 degrees.
2. cook zucchini until tender, drain water well add in salt and lemon juice.
3. Add all dry ingredients together mix well. (I added a pinch or two of brown sugar also).
4. take and add drained zucchini to the dry ingredients mix well, will be runny but that’s ok it will set up.
5. Dump filling in 2 9 inch unbaked pie crusts and dot with butter on top add the top pie crust and seal edges make vent holes on top.
6. Put into oven at 400 degrees for 40 minutes or until golden brown.

Reviews

[barbara in Tx]

This really suprised me. Its good.

 

[candy98126]

This is an excellent dessert. If I hadn't made it myself, I would say it was absolutely apples. Did mine with a crumb topping, but followed the recipe as written. The hardest aspect was preparing the enormous zucchini. The larger the vegetable, the tougher the skin and this was a huge veggie.