Nellies Low Fat Key Lime Pie Recipes

NELLIE & JOE'S KEY LIME PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Combine milk, egg yolks, and lime juice. Blend until smooth.
• Pour filling into pie crust and bake for 15 minutes. Allow to stand 10 minutes before refrigerating.
• To serve, top with freshly whipped cream or meringue, and garnish with lime slices.
• This recipe is made available as a courtesy by Nellie and Joe's Famous Keylime Juice.

FLUFFY KEY LIME PIE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, add boiling water to gelatin; stir 2 minutes to completely dissolve. Whisk in yogurt. Fold in whipped topping. Pour into crust., Refrigerate, covered, until set, about 2 hours.

BEST, EASIEST KEY LIME PIE RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350
• In the bowl of a stand mixer or in a medium size bowl with an electric mixer, beat the egg yolks and the condensed milk for three minutes or until the mixture has thickened. The mix will turn a pale yellow when finished.
• Add 1/2 cup key lime juice and beat for another minute.
• Zest one lime over the top of the mixture and stir to combine
• Pour into prepared graham cracker crust.
• Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes or until center of pie is no longer wobbly.
• Let rest and cool on counter for an hour.
• Refrigerate for at least three hours before serving.
• Slice into eight wedges and serve with whipped cream.

NELLIE'S LOW-FAT KEY LIME PIE

Steps:

• Whisk together milk, yogurt, lime juice and zest. Sprinkle gelatin over water and let soften for 2 minutes, then whisk into lime mixture.
• Refrigerate 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until mixture begins to set. Pour into pie shell and refrigerate, preferably overnight.

KEY LIME PIE MY VARIATION ON NELLIE AND JOE'S

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Blend milk, egg yolks and lime juice until smooth.
• Pour filling into pie shell.
• Bake 15 minutes.
• Whip egg whites and cream of tartar to stiff peak. Add a little sugar, if I am in the mood.
• Spread the meringue top of the pie and put it in the oven at 325 for 10 minutes or til the peaks brown.
• OR.
• Meringue can be placed on silpat and cooked then moved to the pie. Works well if I put the filling in custard cups instead of a pie plate.

LOW FAT KEY LIME PIE

Steps:

• Heat water in microwave on high for 45 sec to 1.5 min until boiling. Stir in gelatin until to dissolved.
• Combine gelatin with yogurt. Fold in cool whip.
• Let set in fridge for at least 1 hours.

REDUCED-FAT KEY LIME PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• Crush graham crackers in a ziptop bag with a rolling pin, or use a food processor.
• Mix in sugar and butter (it's easiest to do this with your hands.).
• Press crumb mixture into a pie plate.
• Bake for 8-10 minutes or until crust is golden brown, and allow to cool to room temperature.
• Reduce oven to 325.
• Combine condensed milk, lime juice, and eggs - pour into cooled crust.
• Bake for 15 minutes.
• Allow to chill at least 2 hours, overnight is better.
• Combine sour cream and confectioner's sugar, spread over the top of the chilled pie.
• Garnish with lime zest if desired.
• If you use a 9-inch pie plate, you might have a little crust mixture and filling leftover - I usually make mini-pies in ramekins with this so I don't waste the lime-y goodness! For those, I bake the crust 6 minutes and the filling 8-10 minutes.

NELLIE & JOE'S KEY LIME PIE

Steps:

• 1. Combine milk, egg yolks and lime juice. Blend until smooth. Pour filling into pie crust and bake at 350º for 15 minutes. Allow to stand 10 minutes before refrigerating. Just before serving, top with freshly whipped cream, or meringue, and garnish with lime slices.
• 2. **** I make whip cream from heavy whipping cream for this recipe...It's soooo worth it!****