I'd never heard of key lime pie, until I watched an episode of "Dexter". Key limes are what we in Australia call West Indian, or Tahitian limes. I had some growing so I thought I'd make it. Most of the recipes call for the pie to be cooked, but originally this recipe was not cooked, even though it had raw eggs. As we don't have salmonella inside intact eggs in Australia, I thought I'd make it without cooking. I've never died from eating tiramisu, so I'm sure I'll be fine.
Chocolate crumb base
Use 2 cups of crumbs from the chocolate cookie recipe
75 g good dark chocolate
3 tbsp unsalted butter
Pulverise the chocolate on 7-8. Add the biscuit crumbs and butter and mix on 5 until it comes together. Press into a pie or flan dish.
Filling
3 large eggs
1 cup sweetened condensed milk
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
1/3 cup fresh lime juice
Beat the eggs with the butterfly on 4 until frothy. Pour in the condensed milk. Add the lime juice in a thin stream and continue beating for 5 minutes. Pour into pie and refrigerate.
Having written this I have just had a thought. Although the limes juice reacts with the condensed milk and eggs to 'cook' and make a custard, you could heat the thermomix while beating, if you're worried about raw eggs. I would say 70 is probably enough, it thickens so much you wouldn't want it to be rubbery.
Anyway it looks very nice sitting in the fridge and I hope I enjoy eating it as much as I enjoyed making it.
members' comments
Mimzim - I found even cooking it as Paul suggested, it did not set and I eventually froze it and served it frozen. Very delicious. How can I get it to set?
Cookie - I think I'd cheat and use gelatine!!!
Thermomixer - you could use an extra egg and scrape out the filling and cook longer?
