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How to make “Montaukila” Margarita Pie



Description:
This simple and easy to prepare pie is icy cold, tangy and creamy, made with “Montaukila” brand Tequila and Cointreau, just like the Margarita cocktail! The cashew vanilla wafer crust adds great taste and texture! A refreshing dessert and a perfect ending for any Latin American meal, or seafood entree!

Crust:
9 1/ 2-inch pie pan

8 oz. vanilla wafers (8 oz) 2 ¼ Cup
½ Cup ground raw cashews
7 Tablespoons melted salted butter

• Grind cashews in food processor until finely ground
• Grind cashews in food processor until finely ground
• Grease pie pan, add crumbs, press to form pie shell

Bake shell 350 degrees for 8 minutes, Cool completely.

Filling:

2-14oz. Cans sweetened condensed milk
6 Egg yokes
½ Cup fresh lime juice plus zest
¼ Cup heavy cream
1 Tablespoon sugar
3 Tablespoons tequila
1 Tablespoon Cointreau
Lime zest

Bake 350 degrees 10 min
Freeze pie for several hours prior to serving.

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hi I’m Andrea from eat drink and bakewith Andrea and I have a great dessertrecipe for you today it’s called Montequila margarita pie[Music]and I’m using my favorite tequila whichis Mon tequila and we’re using Cointreaubut if you don’t have that you can alsouse any orange liqueur would work finenow it’s very simple and not a lot ofingredients so to start with a crustwe’re using vanilla wafers we’re usingraw cashews and some butter that’s it sowe’re going to pour this into our bowlsand these have been crushed in our foodprocessor and you can see theconsistency we’re looking for finelyground consistency so we’re mixing thosetwo ingredients togetherand we have some melted butter and itgoesand we’re gonna mix it up until it’swell combined okay and you can see it’sstarting to take shape and I’m going toshow you what we’re looking for when youpress it it should have an indentationon it and that means the butter has beenwell distributed once that’s done andwe’re just gonna put that in our pieshell I’m using a nine and a half deepdish pie pan now let me show you what Ido to get the crust in this a littlelittle trick start by pressing your piecrumbs in just like this I’m gonna useyour hands okay and you’re going to seethe crumbs start to come up on the edgesof the plate now quarter cup measuretake your quarter cup measure and wewant to go around the edges round theedges using a quarter cup measure andwe’re pushing that area around the edgewhich is right here now we don’t wantthat too thick or when you cut your pieyou can have this big thick piece ofcrust which doesn’t really work wellwith the filling so we’re trying to getthat evenly distributed so we don’t havethick portions and thin portionsyou can see how I’m just using myquarter cup measure as an instrumenthere okay when you get to this point yousee it’s a little crumble on the edgesI’m gonna take the bottom and we’regonna work our way around the sides okayusing your index finger and the bottomof your measure pushing the crumbs intothe sideand that’s it now we’re gonna bake thisat 350 for just ten minutes until it’s alittle bit crispy and golden then we’lltake it out[Music]so we have our baby pie crust which isnow cool it has to be completely cooledbefore you fill it and just a fewingredients here sweetened condensedmilk fresh lime juice we have our eggyolks we have a little bit of cream ofcourse we have our Mon tequila and wehave some Cointreau again you can useany other orange liqueur you choose andwe have the zest from one lime so let’sstart by adding our sweetened condensedmilk and notice there’s no extra sugarin here there’s already sugar in thesweetened condensed milk so notnecessary to add any other sugar in thisfilling okay so we’re gonna put thesweetened condensed milk heart egg yolksand by the way save your whites for anomelette later on don’t let those bitterwaste fresh lime juicenow let’s just give that it’s mixed upyou want it okay because we’re going toadd our heavy cream we don’t want thatthey’ve hit the lime juice directly orkernel so just use a spatula or even awhisk just to kind of to blend theseingredients a little bit before we go toour hand mixer okay now we’re gonna adda little bit of heavy cream it’s a greatnice texture and body for the dish andof course we have our Mon tequila andCointreau now this would be what youwould put in a margarita so it’s twoounces and one ounce of Cointreau so twoounces of tequila one ounce of Cointreauand we have our lime zestand that’s it see those bubbles thoseare air bubbles and we know that whenyou see that and everything is nice andcombined and fit it’s all good to go soat this point we’re just going to pourit into our precooked pie shell andwe’re gonna bake it for just 10 minutesno more[Music]thanks for watching eat drink and bakewith Andrea be sure to visit my websiteeat drink and bake calm for more recipesand follow me on social media at eatdrink and bake and remember nocompetitions here it’s all about greatfood simple to follow recipes andenjoying times with our friends andfamily until next time[Music]you[Music]

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