EASY PEASY LEMON PIE

This lemon pie is an easy refreshing recipe that you can take anywhere. It does not require many ingredients. It is so delicious that it is hard to eat just one piece. It can be substituted with key lime instead of lemon.

Food processor

Mixing bowl

Measuring cup

Lemon zester

Pie pan

Oven

Ingredients needed for Graham cracker crust

1 and ½ cups of Graham cracker crumbs                                   

1/3 cup of white sugar

6 tablespoons of butter, melted  

Ingredients needed for pie filling

2 cans of sweetened condensed milk

½ cup of light sour cream

¾ cup of lemon juice

Zest from 2-3 lemons

Preheat oven to 375

        Place Graham crackers in food processer to ground up. If you do not have a food processer, you can use a plastic bag and rolling pen to crush. Other option is to buy a premade Graham cracker crust.

       In a bowl, mix Graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and butter until well mixed.

        In a 9” pie pan, place mixture and press down to cover bottom of pie pan and sides.

        Place crust only in oven and bake for 7 minutes

       Allow crust to cool for 30 minutes.

 In a bowl, pour in sweetened condensed milk, sour cream, lemon juice and zest. When zesting and slicing lemons, be sure and wash and be room temperature. Also, only zest yellow part because the white can be bitter. Mix thoroughly        

Pour filling into cooled crust

 Bake for 10 minutes at 350   

 Cool pie on counter for 30 minutes     

 Can place lemon slices on top for garnish  

  After cooling on counter, place pie in refrigerator for at least 3 hours to set

I hope you enjoy this pie as much and I do!