No Bake ‘Uala Haupia Pie
Sep 14, 2022
ʻUala Haupia Pie
Anissa Lucero
Dessert
Here is a simple and quick dessert that you’ll find to be a piece of cake to make for the upcoming holidays! Your return on time in the kitchen will be huge!
Ingredients
Pie Crust
- 2 cups coconut rolls, other graham cracker or ginger snaps
- 2T- 1/4 C coconut oil
Pie Filling
- 12 oz. recipe-ready ʻuala
- 1 cup canned coconut milk
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 2 Tbsp. arrowroot starch
- 2 Tbsp. agar-agar
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- A dash of salt
Coconut Haupia
- 1 can coconut milk
- 5 Tbsp. cornstarch
- 4 Tbsp. sugar
- ½ cup water
Directions
Pie Crust
- Add crust ingredients into a blender and blend until ingredients turn into crumbles.
- Add the crumbles into a pie tin, and press down to form a crust.
- Place crust in the fridge while you prepare the filling.
Pie Filling
- Steam ʻuala until tender.
- Soak agar-agar in equal parts water for 15 minutes.
- Add coconut milk, arrow root, sugar, vanilla, soaked agar-agar, and salt to a saucepan. Make sure to add agar-agar and arrow root and whisk before turning on the heat, this will prevent clumping.
- Heat on low and whisk the mixture until smooth.
- Let this mixture cool briefly. Combine with the steamed ʻuala in a blender. Blend all your ingredients together.
- Pour blended ingredients over your crust and let chill in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
Coconut Haupia
- Whisk water and cornstarch in a small bowl until cornstarch is completely dissolved. Set aside.
- Combine coconut milk and sugar in a saucepan over medium heat. Whisk together until mixture is boiling.
- Slowly pour water and cornstarch mixture into the coconut milk and sugar mixture. Whisk together.
- Turn heat to low, and keep cooking for 10-15 minutes, whisking frequently. Haupia is ready when it becomes “gluey.”
Finishing
- Pour haupia over the cooled pie.
- Let cool for 6 hours before serving.
2 comments
This is such a great find! I had this pie at an event, and it is amazing. So, I am hoping to bake some! Do you recommend Taro, Ube, or Okinawan Sweet Potato for the purple part? Also, what type of flowers do you have on top in the picture?
I am new to growing ulu as I traded some cacao pods for an ulu tree. I enjoyed perusing your site and know many of your board of directors. I was astounded by the price of your products and assumed cost of production and initial capital outlay was rolled into the price tag.
Mostly, I was wondering if the solvency of the project was well established. Does the Coop operate with a consistent annual profit? Do the farmers find it easy to grow more? Do they make a modest income from ulu cultivation? I sincerely hope so. All the ulu I have eaten has been free over the last 20 years. As I help the golf course by picking up and eating fallen fruit along the perimeter of the course. It is all given to fellow golfers for their families. I have developed a taste for it so Now I have a tree. I have no idea how I will consume all that fruit.Can ulu be freeze dried?? I wish you all well. Farming on a large scale in Hawaii is very expensive and rarely survives easily.
Aloha, Dean