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Bilberry pie with cream recipe

Bilberry pie with cream recipe

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Bilberries are similar to blueberries, with a red-tinged flesh but equally sweet and juicy flavour. If you can't find bilberries, just use blueberries instead. This pie is a striking dessert, great served with ice cream or sweetened whipped cream. See method

  • Serves 4
  • 15 mins to prepare and 1 hr 15 mins to cook
  • 570 calories / serving
  • Freezable

Ingredients

  • 250g Tesco lighter ready rolled shortcrust pastry
  • a little plain flour, for dusting
  • 500g bilberries (use blueberries if not available)
  • 150g caster sugar
  • 2tbsp cornflour
  • juice of ½ lemon
  • 1 small egg, beaten
  • 200ml reduced fat thick cream, for serving

Each serving contains

  • Energy

    2390kj
    570kcal     29%

  • Fat

    25g 36%

  • Saturates

    15g 77%

  • Sugars

    45g 50%

  • Salt

    0.4g 7%

of the reference intake
Carbohydrate 77.8g Protein 6.1g Fibre 6.5g

Method

Bilberries are similar to blueberries, with a red-tinged flesh but equally sweet and juicy flavour. If you can't find bilberries, just use blueberries instead. This pie is a striking dessert, great served with ice cream or sweetened whipped cream.

  1. Combine the cornflour, bilberries, lemon juice and sugar (apart from the 1tbsp) in a large mixing bowl. Cover and let stand for 15 minutes.
  2. Preheat the oven to 190°C.
  3. Roll the pastry out on a lightly floured surface to 1cm thickness. Line a 9 inch ceramic pie plate with the pastry, cutting off the overhanging pastry (of which there should be a lot). Gather the excess pastry into a ball and roll out to 1cm thickness roughly and reserve to one side.
  4. Fill the pastry with the bilberry mixture. Cut the pastry into long strips that will act as decoration across the top of the pie. Arrange in a wide lattice pattern making sure each strip of pastry reaches the edge of the pie plate.
  5. Seal well and brush the exposed parts of pastry with the beaten egg. Bake for 45-50 minutes until the pastry is cooked and the filing is glazed and hot.
  6. Remove and allow to rest for a few minutes before serving with a small bowl of the thick cream on the side.

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