Banana streusel pie

Ingredients

Quantity		Ingredient
		Pastry for single crust pie
4	cups	Ripe bananas; sliced
½	cup	Unsweetened pineapple juice
2	tablespoons	Lemon juice
1½	teaspoon	Finely shredded lemon peel
¼	cup	Sugar
½	teaspoon	Ground cinnamon
1	teaspoon	Cornstarch
½	cup	Flour
½	cup	Brown sugar; packed
⅓	cup	Macadamia nuts; chopped
1	teaspoon	Ground cinnamon
¼	cup	Butter or margarine

Directions

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Prepare and roll out pie crust. Place pastry in 9" pie plate. Line the unpricked pastry shell with a double thickness of foil. Bake in a 450~ oven for 8 minutes. Remove foil. Bake 4-6 minutes more or until pastry is golden. Remove from oven. Reduce oven temperature to 375~. Meanwhile, in medium mixing bowl gently toss together bananas, pineapple juice, and lemon juice. Drain, reserving juices. Gently toss bananas with lemon peel, sugar and cinnamon. Turn mixture into pastry shell. In a small saucepan, combine the reserved juices and cornstarch. Cook and stir over medium heat till thickened and bubbly. Pour over banana mixture in shell. For streusel, combine the flour, brown sugar, nuts and cinnamon. With a pastry blender or 2 forks, cut in the butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over banana mixture. Cover edge of pie with foil. Bake in a 375~ oven for 40 minutes or until topping is golden and edges are bubbly. Cool on wire rack.

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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