Thanksgiving and the holidays are right around the corner! We know it can be a challenge to eat healthfully around the holidays, especially when there may be little time for menu planning. This year is like that for us.
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Fortunately we can lean on one of our favorite holiday desserts that we have shared at holiday parties and family gatherings for years. It’s relatively easy to make and has been one of the first to disappear with requests for more – even among our conventionally eating relatives 🙂
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It’s our coconut persimmon pie. You can get the recipe for this and more of our simple, delicious, whole raw food recipes!

Here is the recipe:

Pie Crust for Coconut Persimmon Pie

½ cup chia seeds (70 g, 2.5 oz.)

1 cup shredded dehydrated coconut (93 g, 3.28 oz.)

3 small Fuyu persimmons (250 g, 8.8 oz.)

Grind chia seeds in a clean coffee grinder (we have a coffee grinder we use exclusively for grinding seeds) until a meal-like texture is achieved. Blend persimmons in a food processor until homogenized but still a little chunky. Stir chia meal, coconut, and persimmon mixture together in a bowl. Press crust mix into a pie plate. To avoid the pie crust sticking to the bottom of the pie plate, sprinkle some shredded coconut onto the bottom of the pie plate before pressing crust into the plate. Please note: This pie crust is not super-sweet. If you desire a sweeter pie crust, please see the pumpkin pie crust recipe presented later in this eBook.

Coconut Persimmon Pie Filling

Meat of 4 young coconuts (490 g, 17.28 oz.)

6 small Fuyu persimmons (500 g, 17.64 oz.)

2 ripe fresh bananas with skins removed (236 g, 8.32 oz.)

Cut slices of banana and place in bottom of pie crust. Mix coconut and persimmons in high-power blender until completely smooth and pour coconut/persimmon mixture over bananas. Chill for at least two hours before serving.

Preparation strategy: It is best to have the pie crust with banana slices ready before mixing the coconut and persimmons in the high-power blender, since the coconut-persimmon mixture gels quickly after blending. You want the gelling of the ingredients to take place in the pie crust instead of in the blender. If the mixture gels in the blender, simply re-blend the mixture until smooth and pour it into the pie crust immediately. The filling for this pie also makes a great pudding!
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We wish you a happy and healthy holiday season!