Crazy Pie With Lemon and Zucchini Milk
- 1 (9 inch) baked pie crusts
- 1 medium zucchini, peeled, seeded, cut in chunks
- 1 cup water
- 1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon margarine
- 34 cup raw sugar or 34 cup light brown sugar
- 4 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 pinch salt
- 12 teaspoon dried lemon peel
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 lemon, juice of
- 1 cup Cool Whip or 1 cup Dream Whip
- Using a blender, mash & cut zucchini until thick milk.
- In medium saucepan heat "milk", water, and margarine.
- In a bowl mix sugar, cornstarch, egg yolks, salt lemon peel and juice.
- Add a little of the hot mixture to the sugar mixture, stirring well.
- Add this back into the hot "milk" water and margarine.
- Stirring until it starts to boil and thicken.
- Use a whisk.
- It will thicken quickly.
- Pour into baked shell and chill 1 hour.
- Cut into slices and top with whipped topping, cool whip, whipped cream.
- Texture is creamy but a little grainy.
- It is different but the taste is refreshing.
- I sometimes substitute 1 cup sweetened condensed milk for the 1 cup water and add an additional tbsp margarine when I do.
- Some really like it and others just love lemon only.
zucchini, water, butter, sugar, cornstarch, egg yolks, salt, lemon peel, lemon juice, lemon, dream whip
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/crazy-pie-with-lemon-and-zucchini-milk-152912 (may not work)