Macadamia nuts pie (Marshall islands)

                                                                               Receta en Español

Macadamia nuts are original from Australia nevertheless they are these days produced in Hawaii,California, Cuba , Costa Rica, Brasil, Kenya, Indonesia, Taiwán and  East Africa.

They are not produced in Marshall islands , however Macadamia nuts pie has become very famous in these islands, maybe because of the influence of the U.S.A.

It has a base of short pastry and it is normally accompanied by whipped cream.

Ingredients for the shortcrust pastry:

• 250 grams wheat flour.
• 5 grams salt.  
• 125 grams soft butter.
• 1 egg.
• 2 table spoons cold water.

Ingredients for the filling:

• 65 grams grated coconut.
• 220 grams macadamia nuts cut in half.
• 3 eggs.
• 180 grams brown sugar.
• 200 ml honey.
• 20 grams unsalted butter.
• 2 table spoons coconut milk.

Ingredients for the cream:

• 500 ml de cream at least 35.1% fat.
• 3 table spoons cold coconut milk. 
• 130 grams cold white sugar. 

How to prepare Short pastry:

1- Sieve flour and put it in a bowl.

2- Put  the flour in a mountain shape, make a hole in the middle , put inside sugar, salt, egg and cut butter as you see in the picture: 

3- Add water step by step and mix all the ingredients with the help of your hands until you have a dough, at this moment you should not knead the dough any more.

4- Make a ball with the dough and wrap it in cling film. Let it cool in the fridge for 1 hour.

5- Sprinkle some flour on a surface, stretch the dough with a rolling pin until you reach the shape of the baking mold as you see in the picture:



6- Roll the dough as you see in the picture, this way you can easily take it and put it on the baking mold:



7-  Prick the dough with a fork , this is to prevent the dough to swelling up once it is in the oven:



8-  Put some grated coconut over all the surface of the short pastry.

How to make the filling:

9-  Pour some honey, soft butter, coconut milk, sugar, eggs and mix well.

10-  Add macadamia nuts and stir.

11-  Pour the mixture over the short pastry.

12- Preheat oven at 190 º Celsius and cook 15 minutes. Then reduce the heat to 160 ºCelsius and cook for 25 or 35 minutes until it looks like this:

14- Let it cool.

 How to prepare the cream:

15- Follow the steps described in this article: Whipped cream with a difference , before whipping the cream add 3 tablespoons of coconut milk. It takes a little longer but the final taste is amazing.

16- Serve accompanied by the cream:

My Comments to the Recipe:

You should try this pie, the mixture of honey and sugar is not so sweet as you may think, the butter provides a wonderful taste and the coconut milk gives a tropical and soft taste.
If you let the pie stand for a while it gets better.

 

Marshall Islands