Key Lime Pie Recipe
Key Lime Pie
 Prep Time ~ 40 Mins | Cooking Time ~ N/A |
 Approx Cost ~ £3.80 |  Difficulty ~ Easy |
 Freeze ~ No |  Serves ~ 8 |
Tips ~ Don't worry too much if this filling does not seem very thick when you pour it into the biscuit base, after 3 hours it will be softly set.
Ingredients
50g butter, plus extra for greasing
225g Digestive biscuits
5 fresh limes, (take the zest from 2 limes)
4 large egg yolks
1 x 397g can condensed milk
Method
- Brush the base and sides of a 18 - 20cm flan tin with a little melted butter and base line with baking paper
- Melt the butter in a pan over a low heat.
- Crush the biscuits into fine crumbs and stir into the melted butter.
- Press this mixture over the base and sides of the flan tin. Place in the fridge for 15 minutes until set.
- Squeeze the juice from four of the limes. Cut the remaining lime into slices for decoration.
- Beat the egg yolks until frothy, slowly add the condensed milk and continue beating until incorporated.
- Fold in the lime juice and the zest; pour the mixture into the flan case. Refrigerate for 3 hours until set.
- Decorate with the reserved lime slices and serve.