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Watermelon rind and seed pie

Aug-05-2017
Preethi TK
120 minutes
Prep Time
140 minutes
Cook Time
8 People
Serves
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ABOUT Watermelon rind and seed pie RECIPE

A Healthy pie for a dinner party!

Recipe Tags

  • Veg
  • Medium
  • Dinner Party
  • American
  • Baking
  • Dessert
  • Healthy

Ingredients Serving: 8

  1. watermelon rind 2cups
  2. Sugar 1cup
  3. Cinnamon Stick 1
  4. Cloves 2
  5. Lemon juice 2 tsp
  6. Lemon zest 3 to 4 strips
  7. Wheat flour 1cup
  8. salt ,a pinch
  9. Butter 1/2cup
  10. Cold water to mix the dough.

Instructions

  1. Remove the green skin from the melon and the red part of the melon leaving only the white part.
  2. Cut into small cubes.Add sugar (half of rind) to the bowl containing cubed rinds.
  3. leave this for a few hours or overnight at room temperature.
  4. The rinds and sugar will develop a liquidy syrup and mine took about 2-3 hours to develop.
  5. Set to simmer, stirring to dissolve all of the sugar and then add the remaining ingredients, the lemon juice,zest cinnamon stick and cloves.
  6. Simmer for 2 hours or more covered and reduce the syrup . It's done when the cubes become translucent.
  7. Cubes can be used as it is else make paste out of it using mixie.
  8. The rind paste /jam should be thick enough .
  9. You can add attractive food colours (optional) to the jam.
  10. clean the melon seeds. Strain water and spread it on paper. Better to dry in sunlight.
  11. Take a pan and dry roast the seeds on medium flame.Dry roast it till the colour changes.
  12. seeds can also be roasted in the oven at 325 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
  13. Allow it to cool completely before eating.
  14. Mix all the wheat flour,salt,butter ,cold water to a dough and let it rest for at least 2hrs.
  15. preheat oven for 20mins at 200 degrees.
  16. Roll the dough using roller and cut into circles using round cookie cutter
  17. Grease pie tray with butter and place the shaped dough
  18. Place the filling(melon rind filling) above the base dough. Top it with roasted melon seeds.
  19. Make strips using remaining dough and place it above the filling.
  20. Bake pie's for 20-25 min, until it becomes bubbly and golden
  21. Remove pies from oven . let it cool for 10mins.
  22. serve it with remaining rind jam,seeds and homemade watermelon icecream.

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