Vegetables and fruits can make delicious pies. Making pies and filling them with fresh fruits isn’t difficult. Moreover these are very healthy too. Here are few ideas to try.
1. 3-berry filling
3-berry fruit pie got blackberries, blueberries and raspberries. Add 1 pound of each berry with a cup of granulated sugar, 3 tbsp of cornstarch and a bit of cinnamon and bake a pie.
2. Vanilla-Flavored Peach Filling
Need not peel the fruit since the peel itself adds the taste. 4 pounds of peaches will do for an average sized pie. Along with the fruits, ¾ cup sugar, vanilla extract, and a pinch of cardamom will add the taste.
3. Blueberry Filling
A pound of blueberries, mixture of 2 tbsp cornstarch, ½ cup sugar, lemon zest, salt and butter are the ingredients for this pie.
4. Triple-cherry Filling
Three types of cherries, morello cherries, bing cherries, and dried cherries make this pie. Along with these fruits, you’ll use cinnamon, nutmeg, and ¼ cup cornstarch.
5. Rhubarb-strawberry Filling
1 ½ pounds rhubarb, 1 pound of strawberries, ½ cup sugar, ¼ cup cornstarch and a pinch of cinnamon are used for this pie.
6. Nectarine Filling
6 nectarines with peel, fresh lemon juice, ¾ cup sugar, a pinch of salt, 2 tbsp cornstarch get into your nectarine pie.
7. Blackberry Apple Filling
A pound of blackberries, an apple, 5 tbsp sugar, and cinnamon are used to make blackberry apple pie.
8. Plum-Blackberry Streusel
A pound of pitted and quarter plums, half pound of blackberries, a cup of sugar, a tablespoon of cornstarch and a pinch of salt are just enough to make this delicious plum blackberry streusel.
9. Apricot Filling
2 pounds of apricot, a cup of sugar and a tablespoon of cornstarch are the main ingredients for this pie. You can use shredded coconut for topping.
10. Fig and Almond Filling
A pound of figs, an egg, blanched almonds, ½ cup sugar, ¼ tsp vanilla extract, 2 tsp flour, a tbsp fresh lemon juice and 4 tbsp unsalted butter are the key ingredients of fig and almond pie.
These are few of those yummy and delicious pies you can’t resist from tasting. Try making them weekends. It even doesn’t take much time.