A chilled blueberry pie made with fresh blueberries
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 10 minutesminutes
Total Time 20 minutesminutes
Servings 8
Author Cookie Madness
Ingredients
1baked 9 inch pie shell
¼cupcold water
¼cupcornstarch
¾cupboiling hot water – microwave is handy for this
¼teaspoonsalt
1cupgranulated sugar
2poundsfresh blueberrieswashed and carefully inspected for stems etc.
1 ½tablespoonsfresh lemon juice
1 ½tablespoonsbutter
Instructions
In a medium saucepan, preferably a metal one without a nonstick coating, mix together the cold water and the cornstarch to dissolve the cornstarch.
Add the boiling water, sugar and salt. turn heat to medium. Add about ½ cup of the blueberries. Mix and stir with a whisk and a scraper, pressing blueberries against the side of the pan and smashing them (and any lumps of cornstarch), until the mixture thickens and goes from cloudy to translucent purple. Once this happens, continue cooking and stirring over a lower heat for about 2 minutes more.
Remove from heat and stir in the lemon juice and butter. Let the mixture cool for a few minutes, then scrape the warm blueberry gel into a bowl with the fresh blueberries. Stir to coat the blueberries with the gel mixture, then transfer to the baked pie crust. Chill for about 4 hours.
Notes
You can use a store bought crust or make your own. Here's a link to the recipe I use.https://www.cookiemadness.net/2014/01/baked-all-butter-pie-crust/