Learning how to make blueberry pie is easy. By starting with frozen berries, you can make a delicious dessert at any time of the year. With some lemon juice, sugar, and cornstarch, your blueberry pie filling is ready in just a few minutes. If you want my recipe, keep reading!

Blueberry Pie with Frozen Berries

Making blueberry pie with frozen berries is one of the best and easiest ways to make this classic summer dessert. Frozen berries are ready for use, so there is no prep work required. Frozen berries are also available all year long, so you can have a piece of summer at any time of the year. Furthermore, unless you have a blueberry patch in your backyard, frozen fruit is likely to be better in terms of both flavor and nutrient content than most fresh berries in the supermarket. Unlike most grocery store produce that is picked slightly under ripe so that it can travel long distances without spoiling, frozen berries are picked when they are fully ripe and then flash frozen, locking in their flavor and color at the peak of freshness. As you can see, using frozen berries to make blueberry pie is not only convenient but also delicious.

Although you can use normal blueberries, I chose to use frozen wild blueberries. In contrast to cultivated blueberries, wild blueberries are smaller, sweeter, and have a more intense blueberry flavor. However, if you want to use normal frozen blueberries, that should be fine, too. Although you could add a bit more sugar, I honestly think that the recipe would be fine without any other changes

As with all of my fruit pies in which I use frozen fruit, I start the recipe by thawing the fruit. This allows me to see how much liquid the fruit gives off and then judge how much cornstarch I will need to thicken the blueberry pie filling. I then also taste the defrosted fruit so that I can decide how much sugar to add. I like my pies to be sweet but not too sweet, sweet enough to each on their own but also not so sweet than adding ice cream makes the pie cloyingly sweet.

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Adding Lemon Juice to the Filling

I decided to add a bit of lemon juice to my blueberry pie as well. The Argentine chef in me loves to bake with citrus, and it seems that lemon helps to bring out berries flavors. I once made a strawberry pie with just strawberries and sugar, and it was rather disappointing because it was so bland. However, when I made another strawberry pie with lemon juice, the strawberry flavor was amplified tenfold. A bit of lemon juice is one of my secret ingredients in my sour cherry pie, blackberry dumplings, and blueberry dumplings, too.

After mixing the thawed frozen blueberries, sugar, lemon juice, cornstarch, and pinch of salt, I poured the filling into the parbaked pie crust and put on the top crust. I then cut air vents and sprinkled 2 Tablespoons of white sugar on top of the crust to add extra sweetness and crunchiness. Although I used my homemade butter and oil pie crust, any crust recipe would work, as well as storebought. I then baked the pie and let it cool before digging in.

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Recipe Review

Learning how to make blueberry pie was really easy, so I was surprised by just how delicious the pie was. It was sweet, but not too sweet, and the blueberry flavor came through loud and clear, partly because of the lemon juice, but also partly because I used frozen wild blueberries over conventional berries. The blueberry pie filling had just the right amount of cornstarch, so it jellied perfectly, holding its shape when cut without being dry. Although the pie was delicious with some vanilla ice cream, it was outstanding on its own as well. Honestly, this easy blueberry pie recipe was one of the best pies I had ever had. It was the first blueberry pie I had ever tried in my life, so I wasn’t quite sure to expect–but I was definitely than satisfied. If you are looking for the perfect summer dessert, or the perfect dessert to reminisce about the flavors of summer, be sure to make this pie!

Blueberry Pie Recipe