heaven on a plate (mango & nectarine coconut crumble pie)

This dessert is a total winner! We had some fabulous friends over for dinner last night – I had had a request for pulled pork tacos so that was the main course. Sadly no left overs for today. As for dessert I was on a quest to come up with a delicious healthy dessert that was as close to paleo and AIP as possible but not look and taste like  weirdo diet food. I don’t even really know what to call it- one friend said ‘heaven on a plate’ and another ‘crumble-pie’, so here it is. I think I am officially in love with coconut!

Here is the recipe…

This recipe feeds 8-10.

coconut tart base  – this could be used for any typical tart shell filled with your fav sweet filling.

• 2 egg whites, lightly whisked
• 2 cups desiccated coconut
• 1-2 Tbsp coconut palm sugar (or other sweetener or you could leave it out)
• 1 Tbsp coconut oil

1. Preheat oven to 130C.
2. Mix all ingredients together in a bowl.
3. Line a  22 cm tart tin (one with a push out bottom) with baking paper and spray the whole tin well. (I didn’t do this and the egg caused the shell to stick a bit to the tin).
4. Bake for about 30 mins until golden.  Remove from oven and let it cool.

crumble:

• 1 cup shredded coconut
• 1 Tbsp coconut palm sugar (or sweetener of your choice)
• 1/2 cup buckini’s (or if you eat nuts you could use chopped nut of choice)
• 2 Tbsp coconut oil (melted)

1. Preheat oven to 160C.
2. Mix ingredients in a bowl.
3. Spread out on a baking tray lined with baking paper.
4. Bake for about 10 mins or until golden.
5. Remove from oven and cool.

* the crumble will keep in an airtight container for a while (I’d guess a few weeks).

filling: fill the shell with roughly 2 sliced mangos and 3 sliced nectarines.  Sprinkle with the crumble and drizzle with passionfruit pulp.

serve: depending on what you are eating, you can serve with cream, ice cream or yoghurt.

I really wish I had taken a photo of it served up on the plate even though it was a bit ‘deconstructed’, so I made a smaller one today and tucked into it after lunch…

* this recipe is dairy-free and paleo if you don’t serve with a dairy cream/ice-cream or yoghurt.