Lemon Sour Cream Pie
This is super easy if you have your pie shell under control. Think about pre-baking it days in advance. Simply finish the filling the day before. WOW!
I love all things lemon. If I am at a restaurant and there are lemon and chocolate desserts available on a menu, I will often go with the lemon one. You may be surprised by that, given my fluency in all things chocolate, but I can do chocolate, (I can do lemon as well) but I love to see if they can bring it! Give me new!!
This sour cream pie is pretty traditional in the United States, where pies of all types reign supreme. (You should get my Tenina's America cookbook to see the pie chapter in there if you are in any doubt!) I have added doTERRA lemon oil to the pie, just to kick it over the edge into amazing. But feel free to leave it out if you don't have it...or go and get it. Either way...enjoy!
Here are just a few of my other Lemony favourites!
Need
- 1 Batch Vanilla Bean Pastry Recipe
- 150 Grams golden caster sugar
- 100 Grams plain flour
- 1 Pinch pink salt flakes BUY
- 600 Grams whole milk
- 250 Grams sour cream
- 3 egg yolks
- 75 Grams butter BUY
- zest 3 lemons, finely grated
- 10 Drops doTERRA lemon oil optional BUY
- 200 Grams freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Berries of choice to serve
Do
- 1
Prepare the pastry and line a 23cm pie dish. Freeze.
- 2
Preheat oven to 180°C. Blind bake the pie shell 15 minutes, remove the beads and bake further 10-15 minutes until golden and fragrant. It should be crisp all the way through the base.
- 3
Place sugar, flour, salt, milk, sour cream, egg yolks into the Thermomix bowl and cook 8 min/80°C/speed 4.
- 4
Add butter, lemon zest and juice, lemon oil and blend 1 min/speed 4. Cool the mixture to room temperature before pouring into the pie shell. Chill completely for at least 4-5 hours before serving with loads of berries of choice.
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
