Alissa's mango pie question: Which fruit gels this one?

[raweater]

I had asked what fruit makes Alissa's blueberry pie gel and was told it's the blueberries. I've now just made the Mango pie where the filling is just blended bananas and mangoes, I've just made it so it's still liquid, but what fruit gels this one?

By the way, could I use frozen mangoes for it? I used fresh ones but I don't like fruits like mango/avo where it's essentially the fruit that decides when you eat it, I want to decide when I eat my own fruits and not the other way around.

Thanks

[raweater]

How long is it supposed to take? It's been a few hours and it still seems quite liquid, the blueberry one firmed much faster.

[Rawkinlocs]

I don't think it's supposed to gel up like the blueberry one did. Blueberries are naturally gelatinous when blended like that. If you ever make a smoothie and blend blueberries in it, after it sits for a while you'll notice it will firm up like that.

But neither mangos nor bananas have that quality/characteristic that blueberries have so it won't have quite the same effect as the blueberry pie.

If you want the pie firmer, I suggest freezing it for a bit and then transporting to the fridge or simply slicing it right out of the freezer (if it isn't too hard). This is what I do with some pies that don't get all that firm and it works out great! Also, next time try making your crust a bit on the thick side and that way, the pies slice much easier because of the thick crust.

[raweater]

Thanks for the reply. The recipe does say "refrigerate [...] until mixture solidifies". I tried to take a slice now after reading your reply and the filling just poured out from the pie like a liquid smoothie, did I do something wrong? In my plate it looks like a soup with crust bits, it's still really good but I wouldn't quite call this a pie lol.

I must admit I put one less sliced banana (4 blended ones and 1, rather than 2, sliced ones). I doubt this is why it stayed liquid though.

[Green Amour]

In a Gabriel Cousens pie recipe they added some psyillium seed. That helps, I've used it in mango pies.

[Rawkinlocs]

Thanks for the reply. The recipe does say "refrigerate [...] until mixture solidifies". I tried to take a slice now after reading your reply and the filling just poured out from the pie like a liquid smoothie, did I do something wrong? In my plate it looks like a soup with crust bits, it's still really good but I wouldn't quite call this a pie lol.

I must admit I put one less sliced banana (4 blended ones and 1, rather than 2, sliced ones). I doubt this is why it stayed liquid though.

Yeah, I know...but recipes aren't always perfect and sometimes they may say one thing, but something else happens (sorta like when a recipe says to dehydrate for ___ hours but you find that you had to dehydrate it longer) so just know that you probably did nothing wrong and no, I don't think one extra banana would make a difference although it may...maybe it would have made it slightly thicker (??) but again, those fruits do not gel up like blueberries do so...

[sport]

persimmon is another fruit that gels so you could use that instead of the mango.