Blueberry Pie Recipe

The blueberry season peaks from June through August. Blueberries freeze nicely and can be thawed for pie making year round. Fresh blueberries are usually wonderful to eat raw, requiring no additional sugar to be enjoyed. As with many berries, they can become slightly bitter when cooked and require a good deal of sugar to offset the bitterness. Four cups of blueberries will require ½ cup of sugar to sweeten the berries and retain that just picked flavor.

Blueberries are grown for production, as well as cultivated from wild bushes. Fresh blueberries, like many other fruit and berry pies, are often added to filling recipes at the end of the cooking process to keep the berries whole, and the flavors fresh and sweet. Fruit filled pies can make bottom crusts soggy, but there are ways to seal the bottom dough from liquid, as well as approaches to baking that “set” the crust and filling with high heat.

BlueberryPieRecipe.net offers several dozen blueberry pie recipes from the traditional fruit filled pies, to modern recipes taking blueberries to a whole new level. Thought of as a summer pie, blueberry pie is a wonderful addition to any meal and an excellent treat any time of year. Find the perfect blueberry pie recipe, plus the proper techniques for insuring pie baking success.


Featured Recipe

Blueberry Cheesecake Pie with Lemon

Ingredients -
1 (21 ounces) can Blueberry Pie Filling
1 teaspoon grated Fresh Lemon Zest
1 (9-inch) Deep Dish Unbaked Pie Crust
1 (8 ounces) package Cream Cheese, softened
1 (14 ounces) can Sweetened Condensed Milk
2 Large Eggs
2 tablespoons Fresh Lemon Juice
1 teaspoon Vanilla
Preparation:

1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.

2. Mix 1 cup of blueberry filling combined with 1/2 tsp lemon rind.

3. Pour the mixture into the pie crust and chill for one hour.

4. Place the rest of the remaining blueberry filling in the refrigerator.

5. In a bowl, beat the cream cheese until fluffy.

6. Beat in the milk, eggs, lemon juice, vanilla and remaining lemon rind.

7. Pour over the blueberries.

8. Reduce the oven temp to 350 degrees.

9. Bake the pie for 25 minutes or until the pie has fully set.

10. Cool on wire rack until much closer to room temperature.

11. Chill in the refrigerator.

12. Serve with the remaining chilled blueberry filling.

 

 

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