Grapefruit Pie

LeahG's Note:

I saw this on the food network,it was from a festival in FL. I haven't made it but it looks great and all the judges raved about it.

• Total Time: 3 hrs
• Prep Time: 1 hrs
• Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients:

Yield: 1 pie

• 1 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 ½ cups water
• 1 (3 ounce) box strawberry gelatin
• 2 large red grapefruits , sectioned
• 1 prebaked pie shell
• whipped cream , for serving

Directions:

1. In medium saucepan, combine sugar and cornstarch, add water and cook over medium heat until thick and clear.
2. Add strawberry gelatin and stir to dissolve.
3. Let cool, and add grapefruit sections.
4. Pour mixture into baked pie shell and chill until firm, about 2 hours.
5. Top with whipped cream and serve.

Reviews

[Koechin (Chef)]

I used sugarfree strawberry jello and Splenda instead of sugar. The result was SOOO sweet we can hardly eat it. I did not put it into a crust. I will make this again using real sugar, but still sugar free jello. I know it will be great. I would advise however to cut the grapefruit into small bite size pieces

[I cook-You clean]

Very refreshing! After reading the other reviews I decided not to include the 1 cup sugar and used regular jello but not by choice. I've been cutting sugar from my diet and it turns out I have zero granulated sugar in my apt anyway. Regardless, my BF and I were still happy with the result and the added sweetness from the cool whip really helped. I don't even wanna know how sweet it should really be. (Used reduced fat cool whip, reduced fat graham cracker crust, and no added sugar)

[2Bleu]

This recipe made it into Book #179627 So what do you do when you have a case of red grapefruit?, make pie of course! Or, in my case ('case'-lol), I made beautiful parfait desserts (it made two). The taste of this dessert is superb. The flavor of the grapefruit and strawberry work wonderfully together. I did not make a crust obviously, and I also used 3 grapefruits but next time will use 4 or 5 as the bottom was all jel. Thanks so much for sharing this delightful treat. Grapefruit lovers thank you! -Bird-