Deep Dish Mango Pie!

Susan is here again to share her Deep Dish Mango Pie recipe with us:

My husband had a birthday last week.  He is really old…..haha.  My, my, my……he can walk in the door after work and my heart skips a beat……after all these years. This week, we celebrated the anniversary of our first date….36 years ago.  That was on February 2nd and I love to hear him tell the story of the first time he laid eyes on me in Chemistry Lab.  It took him 6 months to get me to go out with him, but that first “study date”, I knew I wanted to marry him.  I have been cooking for him ever since.

I asked him what birthday dessert he wanted this year and he said……Mango Pie.  I should have known that by now.  When we were young, he would ask for a Black Forest Cake.  Then, for a few years, he would ask for this awesome dessert called a Fantastic Dessert (kind of a pudding cake).  But ever since he tasted Grady Spears Mango Cobbler, it is his favorite. So, here is my version.

Deep Dish Mango Pie

• About 3.5 cups of mangoes….5 ish
• 1/3 cup flour
• 1 1/4 cups sugar (cut this down to 3/4 cup for a lower sugar pie)
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 stick of butter
• 2 pie crusts

Instructions

• Peel and slice about 5 mangoes.
• Mix the mangoes, flour, sugar, and cinnamon together in a bowl.
• Lay out a pie crust in a pie plate.
• Pour the mango mixture in to the pie crust and dot with 1/2 stick butter.
• Top with other pie crust. Crimp edges and cut a couple of slits in the top.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Cover with foil for the first hour and uncover the last 15 minutes.

Hi, my name is Susan and I am a mother of four and a grandmother to 5 and that, along with my husband and 2 dogs, take up my most of my time. I am a side-tracked Home Executive and I had the privilege of being a stay –at-home mom so, you might say that my passion is the home and making a haven for those I love.