How to make the Samoan Pineapple Pie - Moniki Miller Recipe

My girlfriend cooking a traditional Samoan desert. Recipe given from a family member - Moniki Miller. It has been tweeked a little to fit the glass dish.

Recipe;
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

Crust:
4 cups of self raising flour
4 egg yolks (the yellow part of the egg :)
(Rule for this dish: For each cup of flour you use, you must add 1 egg yolk)
1 cup of milk
1 cup of sugar
150g of butter

Method: Mix the flour and sugar. Add the butter and mix it in using your hands. The mixture should feel and look like crumbs. In a separate bowl, or cup, mix the eggs together with the milk thoroughly. Combine both mixtures until you have a dough. Knead the dough for 1 minute.

Butter the casserole dish lightly, then place the dough around the outer part of the dish, before covering the base. Place in the oven and allow it to cook for 20-30mins, or until its golden brown.

Filling:
Bring 6 cups of water to the boil.
While that is boiling, combine 150grams (half a pack) of custard with 4 cups of cold water. Mix this well.
Pour 1 cup of sugar in the pot with boiled water and mix it well. Add 1 x 440grams of crushed pineapple while stirring. Add custard mixture and keep stirring so that it doesnt stick to the bottom of the pot. Once the filling starts to thicken, add 1 cup of milk. Keep stirring, and take the pot off the stove, when you think it is thick enough.

Poor this in the centre of the crust. Let the custard set overnight or allow up to 2 hours for it to cool down in the fridge. This will be enough time for it to cool down to allow cream to sit on it without melting.

Cream:
Mix 2 tablespoons of sugar and 1 x 500ml of cream until it is almost hard.

When the filling has cooled down, put cream on top of the pie and spread across evenly. Add crushed peanuts or peaches on top for prettiness, and enjoy :D

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• Samoan Pineapple Pie

[bahamutsalad]

2 dislikes? Kalofae haters.

[cloudydaez]

I had a lovely pie today but there was no pineapple in the filling and the custard was creamy but firm, best pie I ever tasted and it was made by a Samoan lady. Would like to know how she made the filling, perhaps omit the pineapple and make the custard with cream, any thoughts?

[bahamutsalad]

@cloudydaez Sounds like a custard pie to me. People have all sorts of crazy ideas about how they make their custard. Some make it runny and insist that's how it's supposed to be, others make it to the consistency of jelly and insist that's how it's supposed to be, and everything in between.

[uremysunset]

i just tried this with the self raising flour and my entire crust rose and now i have a crust pie!! is it meant to be normal flour or did i go wrong somewhere?

[bahamutsalad]

I asked the missus and she's not sure. Maybe you used a cooking plate thing (I can't cook for fucking shit) too small or accidentally buggered up one of the measurements?

[06warriors]

how much is 150g of butter in U.S conversion?

[bahamutsalad]

@06warriors Google it?

[tolojr]

magaia le "lightly greased!" lol looks about right my dear.

[nina05192903]

THANKS FOR THIS RECIPE!! :)

ive tried it soooo many times and always turned out PERFECT!

thanks for posting this video up. :))

[johnmasina]

yummy

[Vinsake]

@lj08kj10 Yep, use regular sugar. I only used brown in this video because my household usually buy brown sugar & not white :)

[lj08kj10]

@Vinsake Do you have have to use brown sugar? or can i use reg. sugar?

[kitarocks]

@uremysunset You can try blind baking it. by putting like some baking paper over the dough and then putting rice on it?. and then like for the last 5 or 10 minutes you can take the baking paper with the rice on it off to let it brown?. that might help. Make sure you don't get rice accidentally on the dough though.

[Vinsake]

@drfeelgd 0:23 you'll see the block of butter I cut was 150g butter. Each line on the butter wrapper is 50 grams :)

[blahblahblah31076]

Hahaha insted of cream use meringue its much better !

[drfeelgd]

Awesome base, thanks for sharing

[drfeelgd]

hey your video showed 250g not 150g grams of butter. You sure its 150g?

[Vinsake]

@uremysunset Hi and thanks for your feedback. You didnt do anything wrong, it was my measurements. In 5:11, I should have emphasized that following my recipe will get you a thick crust because thats how I prefer it. The sides of the dish should go slightly over the rim of the dish. I just couldnt film it this way because I was filming with one hand and molding with the other lol. To achieve a normal crust, minus 1-2 cups of sr/flour + 1-2 egg yolks. Thanks :)