Persian Lime “Key Lime” Pie

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    8 to 10

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Once Upon a Chef, the Cookbook: 100 Tested, Perfected, and Family-Approved Recipes

By Jennifer Segal

Published 2018

  • About

I use persian limes (otherwise known as ordinary supermarket limes) to make my “Key lime” pie. Unless you live in the Florida Keys, key limes are near impossible to find. And furthermore, they’re so tiny that you’d need to juice at least twenty of them for this recipe. No thank you! Persian limes make an exceptional Key lime pie, and are a much better alternative to bracingly tart bottled Key lime juice. I think this pie tastes every bit as authentic as the real deal—plus it’s easier to mak