A tart, creamy key lime pie with a graham cracker crust crowned with a light as air meringue and served with a sweet mango sauce.
Today I’m sharing a recipe with Never Enough Thyme readers as well as mine. Lana is recuperating from back surgery, so I volunteered to create and share a wonderful southern recipe. If you haven’t visited Never Enough Thyme yet, you need to stop by and checkout Lana’s great recipes with her special southern flare.
My husband and I recently spent a fabulous week in the British Virgin Islands on the Island of Tortola. We stayed at a beautiful hotel, The Sugar Mill, set in tropical gardens with a cozy white sandy beach right across the street from the hotel.
The hotel restaurant is in an old sugar mill, and it’s considered by some to be one of the best restaurants in the Caribbean. We had some fantastic gourmet meals at the hotel. This Key Lime Pie with Mango Sauce, a Mango Coulis, is my recreation of one of the most memorable desserts I had at the Sugar Mill restaurant.
I’m a kitchen gadget loving girl and this Tart Tamper is the perfect tool for making graham cracker crusts easier. I also love baking pies in my Pyrex Pie Plates. Crusts brown up great in the glass pan, and most pie recipes make just the right amount of filling to fill up the pie plate. If you use a deep dish pie plate, you’ll need to increase the amount of filling for this pie.
The Sugar Mill sells a cookbook with some of the wonderful recipes they serve at the restaurant, including their key lime pie recipe. I made a few changes to the key lime pie recipe in the cookbook, including adding sour cream to the filling, which makes the filling more creamy. Also, the key lime pie recipe in the cookbook doesn’t include the recipe for mango coulis.
The mango coulis is a simple mango sauce that requires no cooking, so it’s quick and easy to make. You just add the ingredients to the blender and blend until it’s smooth.
Lately I’ve been using the technique in this video, to peel mangos. It makes it super easy.
The sweet mango sauce complements the tart key lime filling beautifully. It really takes key lime pie to a whole new level of deliciousness. You really need to give it a try soon.
Key Lime Pie with a Mango Coulis
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups graham-cracker crumbs about 10 crackers
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter melted
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 can 14 ounces sweetened condensed milk
- 4 large egg yolks
- ½ cup fresh key lime juice
- ⅓ cup sour cream
- 2 tablespoons grated key lime zest
- 4 egg whites
- Pinch salt
- ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
- ½ cup super fine sugar
- 1 ½ cups cubed fresh mango
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 1 teaspoon lime zest
Instructions
- Crust: Preheat oven to 350°. Combine graham-cracker crumbs, butter, and 3 tablespoons sugar in a medium bowl; mix well. Press into a 9-inch pie plate, and bake until lightly browned, about 12 minutes. Remove from oven, and transfer to a wire rack until completely cooled.
- Filling: In a large mixing bowl, beat the egg yolks until they are light yellow. Gradually beat in sweetened condensed milk until thickened. Gradually add lime juice and beat until smooth. Stir in sour cream and zest. Pour into cooled pie crust. Bake 15 minutes. Remove from oven.
- Meringue: In a mixing bowl with an electric mixer, beat the egg whites and salt until foamy. Add the cream of tartar and beat until soft peaks form. Add the sugar 1 tablespoon at a time, and beat until stiff, glossy peaks form.
- Spread over hot pie, carefully sealing to edge of crust to prevent meringue from shrinking. Use the back of a spoon to create peaks and swirls.
- Bake an additional 15 minutes or until meringue is lightly browned. Cool 1 hour on wire rack. Chill at least 3 hours before serving.
- Mango Coulis: In a blender, puree mango, sugar, lime juice and zest until smooth.
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Nagi@RecipeTinEats
The key lime pie looks really good and the addition of that mango sauce made it more delish!
Lorraine @Not Quite Nigella
What a beautiful pie mum and I love how you added mango sauce! And I hope she is ok after her back surgery. It sounds serious xxx
Annamaria @ Bakewell Junction
Barbara,
I love mangos and could eat the sauce with a spoon. The pie looks delicious too.
Annamaria
Lisa Grant
Looks great! And the pictures from your trip are beautiful too!
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef
My key lime pie recipe is from Aunt Sally’s in Key West but now I want to try your recipe with the mango sauce. I love key lime pie.
Liren
Oh my, look at that meringue! I love the idea of combining mango coulis with a Key Lime pie!
Heather
Your meringue looks amazing! Now I want to head straight to the kitchen and bake a pie! Thanks for sharing!
2 sisters recipes by Anna and Liz
Wow Barbara your vacation sounds wonderful and this pie you created looks amazingly delicious! Never thought of adding mango sauce to the key Lime pie would be a hit- thanks for sharing!
Medeja
It looks so perfectly delicious! I don’t think I would be able to make such beauty at home.
Liz
Wow, this looks like my idea of heaven!!! I love, love Key lime pie—and the mango sauce is a wonderful addition! Hoping Lana will be back to blogging very soon.
Amira
This tart looks divine and the sauce, OMG looks delish. Thanks for the recipe.
Carol at Wild Goose Mama
Sooooo envious of your vacation! I had a cheesecake that was sublime that combined these two flavors. This pie has got to me incredibly delicious. I salivated looking at it. Kind of gross to write about, but true.
Carol
GORGEOUS pie Barbara-your meringue is perfect—I’m jealous! I have one of those tart tampers and LOVE it….and I have about 10 Pyrex pie plates…mine and my Mom’s. They’re the best for sure. I love them because I can see if the crust is browning nicely on the bottom.
Off to pin this glorious pie!
Vickie S.
I lived in the Florida Keys for many years so this recipe brings back lots of memories! Thanks for posting!
Brenda @ a farmgirl's dabbles
This pie looks perfectly wonderful, as does your week away!
Rosa
Heavenly! I love those flavours.
Cheers,
Rosa