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Homemade Buko Pie Recipe


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May 3, 2017

piece of Homemade Buko PieDuring the weekend my parents harvested coconuts and so we gathered young coconuts or what we call "buko". We ate some of the fresh buko meat and I set aside some for my partner.

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Buko pie is one of my partner's favorite and this is the first time I am cooking it for him. Perfect idea for my father's day goodies list.

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 40 minutes

Yield: 1 pie

Ingredients:

  • Crust
  • 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup margarine or softened butter
  • water
  • salt to taste
  • Filling
  • 1 cup young coconut meat cut into strips
  • 1 1/2 cup sugar (refined or brown)
  • 1/4 cup cornstarch
  • 2 cups water
Homemade Buko Pie ingredients
 

Steps:

  1. For the crust combine margarine and flour in a bowl. Add a pinch of salt. Use the cutting method in mixing the ingredients to evenly distribute and avoid large lumps on your crust.
  2. forking butter into flour for dough
     
    forking butter into flour for dough
     
  3. Add a little bit of water so the mixture could come together and will form a dough.
  4. dough formed into ball
     
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  5. Add a little bit more flour if you find it to sticky. Knead for about 5 minutes.
  6. Homemade Buko Pie dough
     
  7. Cut the dough into half for the bottom and top crusts.
  8. Homemade Buko Pie dough cut in half
     
  9. Flatten both crusts based on the size of your pie pan.
  10. rolling Buko Pie dough
     
    rolled Buko Pie dough flat
     
  11. Carefully place and press the bottom crust into your pan.
  12. Biko Pie dough filling bottom of pan
     
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  13. Prick the crust all over with fork. This is done to prevent the pie from bubbling when baked.
  14. forking Buko Pie dough in pan being poked with fork
     
  15. For the filling scald coconut with sugar over low heat.
  16. thin strips of coconut and sugar in pan
     
  17. Add water and adjust heat to medium. Stir until sugar is dissolved and simmer.
  18. water added to thin strips of coconut and sugar in pan
     
    water added to thin strips of coconut and sugar in pan
     
  19. Add the cornstarch a little at a time while you continue to stir to avoid lumps. For best results, dissolve cornstarch in half a cup of water before pouring into the buko mixture.
  20. water added to thin strips of coconut and sugar in pan adding corn starch
     
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  21. Continue stirring until mixture is thick.
  22. Pour the cooked filling into the pan with crust.
  23. pie shell with filling
     
  24. Prick the top crust all over with fork before putting on top of the filling.
  25. Homemade Buko Pie covered with top crust
     
  26. Seal by pressing a fork on the sides of the pie crust.
  27. forking edge of Buko Pie
     
  28. Bake at 180 C for 20 minutes.
  29. Serve hot or cold.
  30. Cut piece of Homemade Buko Pie
     
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Diamond Post Medal for All Time! 1,246 Posts
April 30, 20180 found this helpful
Top Comment

Looks good! My best friend loves this kind of thing so I'll use your recipe. Thank you!

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