Avocado Lime Pie by Zipline

While shopping at Luperon market in Playas del Coco, we came across some giant double-sized avocados. These bright green monster size avocados are grown locally in Costa Rica.  Their skin stays light green even when ripe.  They are Florida avocados or Dominican avocados.  The more popular type of avocado (skin becomes dark green / almost black when ripe) is the Hass avocado.

The bright green avocado was so big that after we had sliced half of it on our burgers, we still had the other half remaining.

We had tried avocado lime pie at DIWO restaurant on our 19th anniversary in Playa Chiquita.  We decided to try to make our own avocado lime pie.

Here's what we did:

Crust:  

2 packages of vanilla cookies with lime icing 

2 Tbsp shredded coconut

1 Tbsp melted butter

We crushed the cookies (8 in total) and added the coconut and butter, pressed down slightly and placed in a (10 x 15 cm) plastic dish in the freezer while we prepared the filling.  

Filling:

1 Hass avocado (or 1/2 of a giant costa rica avocado)

1 Tbsp lime zest

Juice of 3 small limes (1/4 C?)

10 fresh mint leaves

1/4 C icing sugar

1 Tbsp of melted butter

Blend until smooth and pour over crust.  Freeze overnight.

Cut into 4 slices when frozen, allow to thaw 5 minutes before serving.