Best Cantaloupe Pie Recipes

CANTALOUPE PIE

Steps:

• Peel and seed the melon, cut in chunks and process in a blender or food processor until smooth.
• Pour into a large mixing bowl; set aside.
• Combine 1/2 melon puree and cream cheese in blender.
• Process until smooth.
• Add to remaining puree and set aside.
• Combine sugar, gelatin and orange juice in a small saucepan.
• Cook on low heat, stirring until sugar and gelatin dissolve.
• Slowly add to melon mixture, stirring well.
• Pour into crust.
• Chill until firm.
• Garnish pie with Cool Whip and melon balls.

CANTALOUPE CREAM PIE II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Place flour and powdered sugar in large bowl. Cut in margarine until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Press dough into the bottom and up the sides of a 9 inch deep dish pie plate.
• Bake crust in the preheated oven for 20 minutes. Set aside to cool.
• Place the cantaloupe in a medium saucepan over medium heat. In a 2 or 4 cup measuring cup, whisk together sugar, flour, cornstarch, and salt, and then stir into the cantaloupe. Cook and stir until mixture comes to a low boil and begins to thicken. Beat egg yolks and water together in a small bowl. Gradually stir in small amounts of cantaloupe mixture to prevent yolks from curdling. Pour yolk mixture back into pan and continue cooking for 2 minutes more. Remove from heat and set aside to cool. Once cooled slightly, pour into pre-baked, cooled pie shell.
• In a bowl, cream together the Neufchatel cheese and sugar. Beat in milk and vanilla until smooth, then fold in thawed frozen whipped topping until well blended. Spread evenly over cantaloupe layer. Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours before serving.

CANTALOUPE PIE I

Steps:

• Select a cantaloupe of good quality. Cut in half, remove seeds, and scoop pulp into a saucepan. Place pulp over medium heat until it comes to a gentle boil. Mash the cantaloupe as it heats. This should make about 2 cups of pulp.
• Combine 1/2 cup sugar, flour, and salt. Add to heated cantaloupe and cook, stirring, until thick. The amount of flour seems large, but it takes considerable thickening to obtain correct consistency.
• In a large bowl, beat egg yolks; add water to yolks. Add a little of the cantaloupe mixture to egg yolks in order to heat yolks gradually. Stir egg yolks mixture into cantaloupe mixture. Continue cooking, stirring, until thick and creamy. Remove from heat.
• Add butter or margarine and flavoring to the cantaloupe mixture.
• Pour into baked pie shell.
• Beat egg whites and cream of tartar together until frothy. Continue beating, adding the 6 tablespoons sugar gradually; beat until thick peaks form. Top the pie with this meringue.
• Bake at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) until delicately brown on top.

CREAMY CANTALOUPE PIE

Steps:

• 1. Puree cantaloupe.
• 2. Combine sugar and flour in a saucepan; add eggs, mixing well after each addition. Stir in cantaloupe puree and cook over medium heat 8 - 10 minutes. Stir constantly, until mixture boils and thickens.
• 3. Remove from heat, stir in butter and vanilla. Cool.
• 4. Pour filling into baked pie shell.
• 5. Spread evenly with whipped cream. Chill.

RIPE CANTALOUPE PIE

Steps:

• To make the piecrust, combine the flour, salt and sugar in a large bowl. Cut the butter into chunks and cut it into the flour mixture - one chunk at a time - using a pastry blender or two knives, until the mixture resembles coarse meal.
• Gradually add the ice water, blending until the dough adheres and is no longer crumbly. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead lightly, pressing the dough away from you with the heel of the hand. Gather into a ball, flatten into a disk, and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for half an hour.
• To make the filling, beat the egg yolks with the milk and one-third cup of sugar in a heavy saucepan. Add the cantaloupe and cook over low heat, stirring often, until the mixture is somewhat thickened and the cantaloupe is soft, about 25 to 30 minutes. Remove from the heat and let cool.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Roll out the piecrust dough and fit it into two nine-inch pie pans. Crimp the edges and prick the bottom with a fork. Line the pans with foil, and weight with beans or aluminum pie weights. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes, removing the weights and foil during the last five minutes. Place on a rack to cool.
• Fill the cooled pie shells with the cantaloupe mixture.
• In a bowl, make a meringue by beating the egg whites until foamy. While still beating, add the cream of tartar. Continue beating until soft peaks form. Then beat in the six tablespoons of sugar, one at a time, until stiff peaks form.
• Spread the meringue mixture on the pies, making sure to fill in the pies completely and to cover the edges of the crust. Bake for eight to 12 minutes, until lightly browned. Cool completely before cutting. Serve immediately when cool, as the pies do not keep long.

CANTALOUPE PIE

Steps:

• 1. Slice cantaloupe thinly into pie shell. Sprinkle flour over cantaloupe. Add sugar and slice butter over cantaloupe.Pour water over top. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Bake in oven preheated to 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

CANTALOUPE PIE ALA TEXAS AND PACIFIC

Steps:

• Slice cantaloupe in half, deseed and remove rind, reserving all juices. Cut into small pieces and push through a ricer.
• Place melon with juice and water into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Simmer for 5 minutes, stirring often.
• Mix sugar and flour and slowly add to hot mixture, stirring constantly.
• Add butter and nutmeg, stir until butter melts.
• Cool and pour into prebaked pie crust.
• If desired, top with meringue made according to your favorite recipe and brown in oven.

CANTALOUPE CREAM PIE

Steps:

• In a large microwave-safe bowl, combine sugar and cornstarch. Mix in egg yolks, followed by milk. Beat on high speed with hand mixer for 1 minute. Microwave 5 minutes. Beat with mixer for 1 minute. Microwave an additional 5 minutes.
• Stir vanilla extract and butter or margarine into milk mixture. Puree the cantaloupe in a blender or food processor and mix into the custard. Pour mixture into graham cracker crust. Chill at least one hour before serving. Garnish with whipped cream.

STRAWBERRY CANTALOUPE PIE

Steps:

• Combine cream cheese and milk and spread over the bottom of the pre-baked pie shell.
• Crush strawberries slightly and combine with water; simmer for 5 minutes then press throgh a sieve.
• Discard the seeds.
• Blend sugar, cornstarch, and salt, then stir into strawberry mixture.
• Cook over a medium heat, stirring constantly until the mixture comes to boil.
• Continue stirring over low heat for 2 minutes.
• The mix will be thick and translucent.
• Remove from heat and stir in butter and lemon peel.
• Add a few drops red food coloring, mix inches.
• Cool until lukewarm.
• Place cantaloupe balls in pie shell on top of cream cheese mix.
• Spoon strawberry glaze over them.
• Let glaze set before serving.

CANTALOUPE PIE II

Steps:

• Prepare gelatin according to directions on package. Allow to cool until the consistency of thick syrup.
• In a small mixing bowl, whip cream cheese until fluffy. Mix in confectioners' sugar, then beat in whipped topping. Spread mixture into bottom of pastry shell.
• Stir cantaloupe into gelatin, then pour mixture over cream cheese layer in pastry shell. Chill until thoroughly set.

SMOOTH CANTALOUPE PIE

Steps:

• 1. 1. In large bowl, dissolve Jello in boiling water. Cool to room temp. about 5 mins.
• 2. Wisk in Cool Whip, small batches at a time until smooth.
• 3. 3. Fold in cantaloupe. Then Spoon into crust. Refrigerate 2 hrs. or until set.

CANTALOUPE-RASPBERRY PIE

Steps:

• 1. Using food processor or electric blender, crush KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN cereal with dates until mixture resembles fine crumbs. In medium bowl, combine cereal mixture with flour and salt. Mix in oil until crumbly. Add water gradually, stirring with fork until mixture will hold shape when pressed against side of bowl. Press evenly and firmly in bottom and on side of 9 inch pan to form crust. Prick bottom and sides with fork. 2. Bake at 400°F about 12 minutes or until set and lightly browned. Cool completely.3. Measure cornstarch into medium saucepan. Add about 1/2 cup apricot nectar, stirring until smooth. Stir in remaining nectar and lemon peel. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture boils. Continue cooking and stirring 1 minute longer. Remove from heat. Cool completely.4. Fold in cantaloupe. Gently fold in raspberries. Fill pie shell. Chill at least 3 hours. Serve garnished with whipped topping, if desired.