All Natural Frozen Key Lime Pie
This key lime pie recipe gets its green color from a unique source!
Coconut and pineapple juice give this low fat key lime pie recipe a tropical flavor. A secret ingredient gives this key lime pie its green color.
Few ice cream maker recipes are as healthy as this one. That's because this frozen key lime pie recipe gets its green color from Swiss chard.
Loaded with vitamins and minerals, Swiss chard is similar to spinach in color and taste, but in this recipe, the taste of the chard is nearly undetectable -- a good thing if you're serving this key lime pie to kids. If you can't find Swiss chard, just substitute baby spinach.
Greek style yogurt is thicker than traditional yogurt, with a more sour cream-like consistency. Trader Joe's sells a non-fat Greek yogurt at a very reasonable price. Fage is another top-selling Greek yogurt.
If you can't find Greek yogurt, just place a pint of plain non-fat yogurt in a sieve over a large bowl in your refrigerator and let it drain for a few hours. That'll give the yogurt a thicker consistency.
All-Natural Frozen Key Lime Pie
- 1 tsp. honey
- 2 Tbsp. butter or margarine, melted
- 3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/2 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
- 1 cup unsweetened pineapple juice
- 2 cups Swiss chard, firmly packed (or baby spinach)
- 1 cup non-fat dry milk
- 1/2 cup boiling water
- 3/4 cup granulated white sugar
- 1/2 cup freshly-squeezed key lime juice (or regular lime juice)
- 16 oz. non-fat Greek yogurt (such as Fage or Trader Joe's)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a medium bowl, mix honey, melted butter, graham cracker crumbs, chopped walnuts and shredded coconut until all the dry ingredients are moistened. Press into the bottom of a 9-inch pie plate. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.
Meanwhile, place pineapple juice and Swiss chard in a blender and puree until the mixture becomes a green liquid. There should be no visible bits of chard. Set aside.
Place non-fat dry milk in a large bowl. Pour boiling water over the dry milk and mix with a whisk. Whisk in the sugar. Heat 30 to 60 seconds in the microwave until mixture is thick and all dry milk particles have been dissolved. Allow to cool 5 minutes. Whisk chard mixture, lime juice and Greek yogurt into milk-sugar mixture. Place in your ice cream maker and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions. Pour into the prepared crust and freeze several hours until firm.
Makes 8 servings.
Per serving: 287 calories, 11 g fat (6 g saturated fat), 9 mg cholesterol, 40 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 5 g protein, 13% vitamin A, 18% vitamin C, 18% calcium, 5% iron
