Cooking consult!

[radiantfracture]

Say I want to veganize, or at least de-dairify, Hrishikesh Hirway's mom's mango pie recipe, but not end up with liquid pie, like Hrishi did (even though that cooking failure inspired a new flavour of ice cream).

Have you made such adaptations yourself, and refined them? What would you suggest? Any Very Clever Tricks?

I'd accept animal-based gelatin, but not cream or cream cheese.

Original family version

1 ½ cups boiling hot water
1 ½ packages unflavored gelatin
4 oz. cream cheese
8 oz. Cool Whip
16 oz. mango pulp (Alphonso if available)
½ cup sugar
2 graham cracker pie crusts


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Comments

[sovay]

Say I want to veganize, or at least de-dairify, Hrishikesh Hirway's mom's mango pie recipe, but not end up with liquid pie, like Hrishi did (even though that cooking failure inspired a new flavour of ice cream).

Condensed coconut milk? I'm not sure if that would make it vilely sweet, since like condensed non-coconut milk, there's a lot of sugar involved. I just enjoy pouring it over one or more peeled mangos and eating it.

(I can't digest several common vegan substitutions, so I am otherwise unlikely to be helpful with this question.)

[radiantfracture]

I do like anything that involves subbing in coconut milk, and it sounds delicious with the mango.

[sovay]

I do like anything that involves subbing in coconut milk, and it sounds delicious with the mango.

It is delicious with mango. I'd just leave out the half-cup of sugar if so.

[elusis]

But coconut milk isn't going to do anything for firmness.

I assume vegan "cream cheese" was already tried in Hrishi's failed version? I missed that detail and just heard the results.

[radiantfracture]

But coconut.

I'm not sure I know what he did, so I'm just looking for hacks from those in the know.

What if I just added more gelatin?

[elusis]

So I replied to his Twitter post about the ice cream and asked if he'd share what he tried that didn't work, in hopes of finding an adaptation that leads to a somewhat more functional pie. :)

Vegan cream cheese and the vegan non-dairy whip options seem to me like the direction to go in, plus agar-agar instead of the gelatin. And if you're making your pie crust, vegan graham crackers plus melted plant-based butter substitute.

[elusis]

Hrishi says: "You can use agar agar! My family has used it many times, successfully, but alas, I don't think I got it to bloom correctly."

[radiantfracture]

Omg! This is the best. From HH himself! Thank you!

[elusis]

I admit that this is the thing I like about Twitter. F'ing Twitter.