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I Am Inviting Banana Cream Pie Recipe

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I Am Inviting Banana Cream Pie
Difficulty: Medium | Makes: 1 (9-inch) pie

This no-cook banana pie proves that raw food has a sweet side too.

What to buy: Coconut butter, agave nectar, and lecithin can be found at health food stores.

INGREDIENTS

For the Crust:

  • 1/3 cup well-packed, finely chopped dates
  • 2 1/2 cups coconut flakes
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla (optional)

For the Filling:

  • 1 cup coconut milk
  • 1/4 cup well-packed, chopped dates
  • 3 ripe medium bananas
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice
  • Pinch of turmeric for color
  • 2 tablespoons lecithin
  • 1/2 cup raw unscented coconut butter

For the Coconut Cream Topping:

  • 3/4 cup coconut milk
  • 1/4 cup coconut meat (wet measured; see below)
  • 1/4 cup agave nectar
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • 1 teaspoon lecithin
  • 1/4 cup raw unscented coconut butter
INSTRUCTIONS
To Make the Crust:

  1. Put coconut flakes, salt, and vanilla in your food processor, fitted with the “S” blade. Begin to process, adding small amounts of the date until crust sticks together. Press crust into a greased (with coconut butter) 9-inch pie pan.

To Make the Filling:

  1. Blend all ingredients, except the coconut butter and lecithin, until smooth. Blend in the coconut butter and lecithin until smooth. Pour into pie shell and set in freezer or refrigerator until firm (about an hour).

To Make the Coconut Cream Topping:

  1. Pour coconut milk into blender. Add coconut meat until level reaches one cup, wet measured (meaning that you add the meat until the liquid in the blender reaches the 1-cup level). Next blend remaining ingredients, except lecithin and coconut butter, until smooth. Then add lecithin and coconut butter and blend until incorporated. Set in freezer or refrigerator until firm, and then spoon onto firm pie base.

This recipe, while from a trusted source, may not have been tested by the CHOW food team.

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  • I Am Inviting Banana Cream Pie Recipe
    5

    Love this pie. Love the fact "no nuts" which makes it great! http://www.veganrawfood.net/

  • For those of you fearing saturated fat:

    Saturated fat got a bad wrap some years ago when it was suggested that there was a correlation between it and cardiovascular disease. The study, as I am told, did not distinguish between saturated and trans fats. Since then, there has been further studies to suggest that the correlation does not exist, and in fact saturated fat does not correlate (or perhaps only very slightly correlates) with cardiovascular disease (and correlation does not necessarily imply causality).

    Secondly, for those of you who believe fat makes you fat: that has been debunked long time ago. The truth is, fat is important and should be consumed. So I say, as long as you live a health and relatively active lifestyle, dig in!

  • This looks like a saturated fat and sugar bomb! Anybody looking into the health benefits of raw food would do to limit their intake of recipes like this to "occasional treat" status, rather than a healthy staple.

  • I'd like to try this, I am just starting to go raw in my diet and I don't have my kitchen quite ready yet. There always seems to be some ingredient that I don't have. It's very frustrating as I live way up in northern Alberta and the nearest health food store is a 3 hour drive (which I'll be doing tomorrow so....I'd best make a list)

  • I was bored, so I put the ingredients to the Nutrition Analysis Tool (http://www.nat.uiuc.edu/nat.pdl

    )

    Nutrient Total
    Calories 4473.9
    Pro (g) 22.98
    Fat (g) 384.65
    Carb (g) 301.12
    Na (mg) 1569.9
    vitA (IU) 343.32
    vitC (mg) 53.78
    satF (g) 305.97
    Chol (mg) 0

    At 6 servings, 745 calories/slice; 8 servings, 559.

    So this proves to me that even raw food can be highly caloric (but cholesterol free!).

  • I agree with ChefJune that the color looks exceedingly strange, and the amount of coconut in this recipe seems to point more towards Coconut Cream Pie rather than Banana. I'm not really sure that the three bananas would bring enough flavor to the pie, but even if they did, I think eating a homogeneous pudding as a pie filling sounds kind of gross. Most cream pies have solids in with the custard, and there's no reason the bananas could not be sliced added to the filling like that.

  • For this to be raw, it would have to be made with fresh coconut milk, not canned, which is the most widely available kind. In case that wasn't obvious.

  • Why does it have that decidedly (imho) unappealing grey-green color?

    It might taste good, but it looks very weird.

  • Yum! Love Cafe Gratitude!!!

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