Melon Pie: A few delicious dessert recipes

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Summer time is the expanse for the sweet tooth. After all, how many different interesting and tasty desserts can be prepared using fragrant fruits! One such dish is the melon pie. Using it as the main component, you can get completely different tastes of sweet treats. Consider several recipes that differ from each other in cooking technology.

Different types of pie

Since the sweet melon mass is already completely ready for use, it can not be thermally processed at all. Or spend this stage in a sparing mode. Also, the fruit, due to its soft texture, is easily introduced into the dough in a mashed form, evenly distributed and giving the baking a wonderful honey flavor. A melon pie could be, for example:

- with fresh slices (garnish pastries on top or use raw as one of the layers);

- with candied fruit slices (boil slices in strong sugar syrup);

- with a soft mass as part of the dough base when baking (mash the overripe pulp or beat it with a blender).

Below are recipes with each oflisted options for processing "sunny" fruits.

Melon pie. Recipe with candied wedges

Boiling and then light drying will turn melon pieces into candied fruits. How they turn out depends primarily on the duration of the heat treatment and the concentration of sugar in the solution used. In the event that it is very saturated, the boiled melon becomes like caramelized sweets. When cooled, such sweets are in many ways similar to marmalade. To prepare a melon pie, a gentle processing method is more suitable, when the slices remain semi-fresh. To do this, cut the fruit (not overripe) across into thick plates, remove the core with seeds and a dense skin along the outer edge with a sharp knife. Then divide the piece into four parts. Put the resulting bar across (“crusty” edge on a cutting board) and chop into slices no more than 1-1.5 cm thick. Blanch the “fans” prepared in this way in sugar syrup (1 cup of water per 1 liter) 2-3 minutes. Remove the slices from the solution with a slotted spoon and place on a wire rack or in a colander to cool completely. How to make candied melon pie? The recipe consists in a combination of several components of the dessert: biscuit cake, cream base, candied slices. Candied melons serve as a decoration for a layered cake. Arrange them as shown in the photo, and then decorate the dessert with cream.

Assembled cake with fresh melon layers

This recipe is somewhat similar to the previous one. A delicious dessert involves assembling a pie fromready-made cakes and raw melon mass. It is preferable to take the fruit fully ripe, with a honey taste. Prepare the slices as described earlier. Sliced slices do not have to be whole. You can also lay the melon on top of the biscuit or shortbread cake and cream mass in the form of small pieces. To make the dish light and not too sweet and sugary, use whipped cream. Before serving, such a melon pie must be kept in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. Then the frozen dessert will keep its shape perfectly and be easily cut into portions.

How to cook a melon pie in a slow cooker?

Pastries prepared as described below taste like apple charlotte. As a basis, both an unripe fruit and an overripe one are ideal. So, we are preparing a pie with melon in a slow cooker:

1. Beat 4 fresh chicken eggs with 1 cup of granulated sugar with a mixer.
2. Gradually add 1 cup of flour to the mass.
3. Seed and peel melon and chop into small cubes.
4. Grease the bowl with olive oil.
5. Pour the melon slices into the bottom of the mold, and pour the dough over the top.
6. Select the "Baking" mode and time 45 min. Wait for the signal.

Melon charlotte is ready to serve!

Baking cupcake dessert in the oven

Pie with melon in the oven is cooked in just half an hour:

1. 1 egg and 1 yolk beat with a mixer in a fluffy foam with 50 g of sugar.
2. Add 50g softened baker's butter margarine or uns alted butter.
3. Continuing to beat, add peeled and chopped ripe melon (200-250 g) to the mixture.
4. Heat milk (1/2 cup), mix with a pinch of s alt and 1 tsp. l. quick soda. Pour the mixture into the dough base.
5. Then add flour in small portions (1 full cup) and continue beating at low speed.
6. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
7. Grease the mold with vegetable oil. Pour batter into it.
8. Bake 15-20 minutes. over medium heat.
9. 1 egg white with 50g sugar until fluffy.
10. Fudge the cake with fondant and let it brown in the oven for another 5 minutes.
11. Serve garnished with fresh melon slices.

Can be cooked in the oven or slow cooker similarly to a banana pie, the flesh of which is very similar in structure to ripe melon slices. Get creative, try new recipes, get delicious desserts!