Buko Pie (Filipino Young Coconut Pie) Recipe by Tasty (2024)

FAQs

What are the main ingredients of Buko Pie? ›

Buko pie is a traditional Filipino pastry invented in 1965. The filling is made with a mixture of fresh young coconut, coconut juice, and milks and thickened with cornstarch, then encased in a tender pie crust.

To reheat, thaw the Buko Pie at room temperature for about an hour. Reheat the pie in the oven at 375°F for 20 to 30 minutes, or until it is warm.

The pies retain their freshly-baked flavor and texture minus the sog when microwave-heated. Usually, as experienced by the DOST-assisted Los Baños buko pie maker, Lety's Buko Pie owned by Lety Belarmino, coconut pies have short shelf life that they could last only three days unrefrigerated and one week refrigerated.

Buko pie is very high in calories and rich in fat, carbohydrates and proteins according to its nutritional value. It is a source of calcium, iron, niacin and folate. As a result of the use of white sugar and condensed milk in the pastry, excess calories and simple carbohydrates are found.

Blind Bake

The most common way to ward off a soggy pie crust is by a process called blind baking. Blind baking means you pre-bake the crust (sometimes covered with parchment or foil and weighed down with pie weights to prevent the crust from bubbling up) so that it sets and crisps up before you add any wet filling.

Undercooked Filling: If the cornstarch-thickened filling hasn't been cooked long enough to reach a boil and then simmered for a few minutes, it may not set properly, leading to weeping as it cools.

If a pie contains eggs or dairy products, it should be stored in the refrigerator and not left out at room temperature for more than two hours. Pies that do not contain dairy products, such as fruit pies can be stored, loosely covered at room temperature for up to two days.

How to store. Wrap the pie tightly with plastic film and refrigerate for up to 3 days. To freeze, place the baked pie on a baking sheet and freeze until frozen. Transfer to a resealable bag and store in the freezer for up to 4 months.

After being picked without any preservation, natural coconuts only in a normal environment, we can keep them for about 7 days and retain the same flavor. However, to make coconut water delicious and nutritious and ensure the sweetest, you should still drink it right after you buy it.

Most dessert pies are not healthy because of the sugar and the crust. The healthiest is probably pumpkin pie, which has about half the fat and sugar of apple pie (and is a single-crust pie rather than double like apple pie). What is the easiest pie to make during the holidays? Pecan.

Is Buko Pie a delicacy? ›

The Filipino delicacy got its start in Laguna, south of Manila, the reputed home of the finest buko pies in the country. Buko pie stores line the national highway stretching from Calamba to Los Banos.

*This coconut cream pie contains 180 calories and 6 grams of sugar per slice as compared to the full-sugar version that contains 230 calories and 13 grams of sugar per slice. **Please remember to wash hands, utensils, equipment, and work surfaces with hot, soapy water before and after they come in contact with raw egg.

Pies and tarts are pastries that consist of a minimum of two components: the first, a relatively thin pastry (pie) dough, when baked forms a crust (also called pastry shells) that hold the second, the filling, which classifies them by type.

Buko Pandan is a Filipino cold dessert made of jelly cubes, young coconut, and sweetened cream infused with pandan or screwpine flavor. Although the above three are the standard ingredients, tapioca pearls or sago, kaong, and nata de coco are also commonly added.

Fruit, sugar, cornstarch, acid, extras. These are the only things you need to remember to turn out a perfect pie filling. You've already read our step-by-step guide to the flakiest, butteriest pie crust.