I used to make this pie often: with a homemade crust of flour, walnuts, and butter. I hadn’t made it in quite awhile though, since I cut flour out of my diet earlier this year. I recently had a taste for it so I modified the crust to be flour (and gluten) free.
Instead of regular flour, I used ground almonds and a gluten free baking mix to make the crust but I think ground almonds all by themselves would work out just fine.
crust
1 cup ground almonds (I used Trader Joe’s brand)
1 cup gluten free baking mix
1 stick of unsalted melted butter
Mix ingredients together and press into pie dish. Place in freezer for 10 minutes. Remove from freezer and slice two bananas and layer banana slices on top of the crust.
filling
Move on to either making your own vanilla custard filling or follow the package directions for french vanilla instant pudding mix.
topping
1.5 cups whipping cream
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbsp sugar (I substituted one dropper full of stevia instead)
Once pudding is cooled, pour into pie crust and top with whipped cream. I used my Kitchen Aid mixer to whip the cream, adding in a little stevia and vanilla for flavor while it whipped.
It was so yummy! Let me know if you try it.
-J
Sounds wonderful. We have the almond meal from Trader Joe’s. We will have to try it.
Sound like some thing I would like to try.
Good post. Choosing ground almonds as a substitute seems like a good choice. Thanks for the recipe.