Simple Banoffee Pie



Banoffee Pie



I discovered Banoffee pie quite by chance and in one of the most unlikely of places.

Keeping up with the typical bong trait of being experimental with food and that too street food , we frequent the mosque road in Bangalore every year during the month of Ramadan to try the various delicacies of the Indian Muslim community.

The mosque road comes alive with food stalls buzzing with activities along the entire stretch of the road ( about a kilometer ). The smoke thickened air, the aroma of the various meat delicacies and the mass of people feeding themselves like the end of the world is here, is an experience in itself.

You will find foodies ( specially meat lovers ) from all walks of life flocking the street during Ramadan. The sheek Kebabs with idiappams, Haleem and Pather Gosht are some of my personal favorites.

No meal is completed for a Bong without a dessert. So after we had our fill of the Kebabs and a few other delicacies, we went on a quest to find the traditional Phirni and the Rabri.

We managed to stumble upon just the place to appease our sweet tooth. We started off with the Matka Rabri and the traditional Phirni. They had several other visual delights on the offering. Curiosity turned to greed ( I had an instantaneous amnesia in regard to my diet regime) and we elbowed our way to the front of the stall,inveigled the attention of the cute little fellow (probably the owner's grandson) who was more than happy to let us have whatever our fingers pointed to.

One of the visual delights turned out to be the legendary Bonaffee Pie ( who would have dream t of discovering the legendary English desert in the streets of Mosque Road !!!!)

We simply loved it and I had to try my hand at making it...

Easy Banoffee Pie

Ingredients

1. Sweetened Condensed Milk :- 1 Tin ( I used the Nestle 400 g tin)
2. Ripe Bananas :- 2 No.s Big Bananas( Should not be overly ripe )
3. Fresh Cream :- 300 ml ( I used the Amul Fresh Cream )
4. Unsalted melted Butter:- 100 Grms
5. Digestive Biscuits ( Crushed ) :- 250 Grms ( I used the Marie Biscuits )
6. Sugar ( Powdered ) :- 1 tbsp
7. Grated Chocolate :- 2 tbsp

To Make the Base

• In a bowl, nicely mix the biscuit crumbs and the melted butter to form a coarse mixture.
• Spread the mixture in a pie tray and firmly press it with a spoon to make a pie shell. You can use a loose bottom baking dish as well. I do not have one and hence used the standard Pyrex pie stray instead.  
• Bake it for about 6 to 7 minutes at 190 C.
• Your Pie shell is ready.

For the Filling

•  You need to make the Dulce de Leche by placing an unopened tin of Condensed milk in a tub of boiling water. Leave it to boil for an hour. Open the tin after it has cooled down. You will have a thick, golden, squidgy caramel. 
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•  Spread the caramel evenly into the pie crust.
•  Slice the banana's and make a layer  above   the caramel

• Add sugar to the cream and whip lightly.
• Layer the banana's with the whipped cream .
• Sprinkle the grated chocolate for decoration.
• Refrigerate, cut into wedges and serve.

Tit Bits

•  Banoffee  Pie is an English dessert which was created in 1872 at the Hungry Monk restaurant in East Sussex.
• The name Banoffee Pie is a portmanteau of Banana and Toffee.