This healthy rhubarb pie can be prepared through step 5 up to 24 hours in advance. Cover tightly with foil or plastic wrap until ready to serve.

Storing instructions:

Cover the remaining pie tightly with foil or plastic wrap. Alternatively, place the leftover pie sliced in an airtight container and store in the fridge for 3 to 4 days.

How to properly use gelatin in a recipe:

Gelatin needs to be bloomed first. Blooming is just a fancy way of saying that you are softening the gelatin granules so they can easily dissolve in the liquid. So for this recipe, I used cooled chai tea to do that. Just sprinkle the gelatin over the tea, and let it sit there for five minutes or so. Sprinkle the gelatin across the tea in an even layer. If there are dry pockets in the center, it won’t soften properly.

How to dissolve the gelatin:

When you heat the gelatin and rhubarb mixture in step 6, make sure it does not come to a boil. Gelatin is a protein, and if it gets too hot, the proteins will denature and they won’t form back together properly. When this happens, the gelatin won't set.

How quickly will the filling set?

The rhubarb filling with gelatin solidifies and gels up as it cools, so once you've mixed it with the yogurt, transfer it to the pie crust and into the fridge without delay or mucking around with it too much.

Light Rhubarb Chai Cream Pie

Description

This healthy rhubarb cream pie is flavored with chai tea and made with creamy vanilla yogurt. Don’t worry, it’s not hard. All you have to do is bake the crust, make the filling, assemble the pie and let it chill!

Ingredients

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Crust

1 1/4 cups whole-wheat pastry flour
1/2 cup all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting and brushing
1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into chunks
2 tablespoons canola oil
4 to 6 tablespoons ice water

Filling

1/2 cup boiling water
1 chai tea bag
1 package unflavored gelatin
4 cups chopped rhubarb
1/2 cup honey
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon cardamom
1 1/2 cups fat free vanilla Greek yogurt

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Instructions

Pulse whole-wheat pastry flour, flour, sugar and salt in a food processor fitted with steel blade attachment until just combined. Add butter, and process until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Remove lid and drizzle in canola oil. Pulse in oil three or four times. Open lid and drizzle in 4 tablespoons ice water spreading drops evenly around the crumbly mixture. Process until the mixture just comes together. If it doesn’t come together drizzle on 1 to 2 more tablespoons ice water and process until the dough comes together as one mass. Flatten dough into a disk, wrap with plastic and refrigerate at least one hour to firm up.
Meanwhile, pour boiling water over the tea bag and let steep 10 minutes. Remove tea bag and let tea concentrate sit until cool, at least 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Roll dough out with a rolling pin on a lightly floured surface. Transfer to a shallow 9-inch pie plate. Roll excess dough under edge to create tall wall of dough along rim of plate and crimp edges. Dock the crust with a fork to prevent puffing up in the oven. Bake in the center of the oven until golden brown, 24 to 28 minutes. Cool completely.
Stir rhubarb, honey, cinnamon and cardamom in a medium saucepan and set over medium-high heat. Cover and bring to a simmer, stirring occasionally. Remove lid and cook until the rhubarb has softened and broken down, 6 to 10 minutes. Reserve 1 cup of the rhubarb mixture and refrigerate.
Sprinkle gelatin over the cooled tea and let sit until the gelatin has absorbed the moisture of the tea and softened, about 5 minutes.
Stir the tea mixture into the remaining rhubarb in the saucepan and stir until the gelatin is dissolved. Let mixture cool, about 15 minutes, or stir over an ice bath to speed cooling, 4 to 5 minutes. Whisk the rhubarb and gelatin mixture with the yogurt in a medium bowl. Brush ¾ teaspoon flour into docking holes. Pour into the cooled baked pie crust. Refrigerate until cold and set up, about 2 hours. Top with the reserved 1 cup rhubarb mixture.

Notes

Make Ahead: Can be prepared through step 5 up to 1 day ahead.

Prep Time: 40 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Category: dessert
Method: oven/stove top
Cuisine: American

Nutrition

Serving Size: 1 slice
Calories: 195
Sugar: 15 g
Sodium: 59 mg
Fat: 7 g
Saturated Fat: 3 g
Carbohydrates: 32 g
Fiber: 4 g
Protein: 6 g