Get a Vegi with Your Pie

Submitted by Rhonda Sauls –  

Zucchini Pie

(1 serving of vegetables, 1 serving of dessert)

• 4 cups zucchini (peeled, seeds removed. Use BIG zucchini)
• ½ cup of water
• 2 T lemon juice
• Dash of salt

Cook until zucchini is tender.

Mix together:

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 ½ t cinnamon
• 1 ½ t cream of tartar
• Dash of nutmeg
• 3 T flour.

Add to the cooked zucchini mixture. Pour mixture over the bottom (un-baked) crust in a 9” pie pan. Dot mixture with butter. Cover with top crust, brush lightly with water and sprinkle granulated sugar lightly over top. Make several small slits in top crust. Bake in 400° oven approx. 40 minutes.

I can supply Muriel’s pie crust recipe, but she uses lard in it, and most people don’t want the cholesterol. It’s easier just to buy your pie crust pre-made (Pillsbury works well for this). Bake pie as above. You might want to put a pan under the pie in case it runneth over.

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