I love the combo of strawberry and rhubarb in desserts. In fact, one of the first recipes I ever posted here on House of Nash Eats was for these delicious Strawberry Rhubarb Crumb Bars that I made on the tail end of rhubarb season, which typically runs between April and May. Rhubarb is this crazy vegetable with poisonous leaves and insanely sour/tart stems but if you add a some sugar and mix them with berries in a pie crust, they create the most wonderful sweet-tart pie that you can possibly imagine. The kind of pie that wins awards in pie baking contests. Since the season is short and I love rhubarb so much, I always buy extra rhubarb stalks to take home and chop up to freeze for off-season use. You also might like my strawberry rhubarb coffee cake! We love all things rhubarb! When it’s in season we freeze it to have plenty year-round and we use it to make Rhubarb Crisp, Rhubarb Crumble Ice Cream, and this wonderful Easy Rhubarb Breakfast Cake.
Why you’ll love this Old Fashioned Rhubarb Pie
The filling is made with equal parts strawberries and chopped rhubarb with a just a little cinnamon for warmth and depth, lemon juice and zest for brightness, and tapioca for thickening. It’s the perfect pie for a lattice-top pie crust, which never fails to impress, since the holes in the lattice allow moisture from the juicy berries and rhurbarb to escape while the pie bakes so it’s not soggy.
A memory from when I originally posted this recipe back in 2017 when my girls were 5 and 3 years old: “I dished up a slice of this strawberry rhubarb pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream for a treat one afternoon and sat on the back step to watch the girls play in the yard while I ate it. Except I couldn’t even get a bite to a myself because Rose and Clara hovered right next to me and devoured the whole thing spoonful by spoonful while making happy “mmmmmmm” sounds.”
Rhubarb Strawberry Pie Ingredient Notes
Rhubarb: This vegetable can vary from brilliant pink to a muddy green-ish color. Both taste the same and work in this recipe so there is no need to hunt down pink rhubarb, unless the color is important to you. You could always add a drop or two of red gel food coloring (affiliate link) to your filling if you only have the greenish kind. Strawberries: This is a great way to use up strawberries that are looking a little past their prime or aren’t quite as sweet. Nobody will notice slightly bruised strawberries once they are baked into a pie! Just cut off any bad parts. Tapioca: Instant tapioca makes a fantastic thickener for fruit pies. The perfect pie should be on the juicy side but still sliceable.
How to make Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
How do you know when a strawberry rhubarb pie is done?
You can tell when your strawberry rhubarb pie is done by looking at the color of the pie crust which should be a nice golden brown color. The filling should also be bubbling up through any slits or lattice for venting the pie.
Serving Suggestions
We suggest serving this pie with a scoop of your favorite ice cream or a dollop of homemade whipped cream. Or if you have a slice leftover and really want to take things to the next level, add it to a blender along with a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream and milk to make an incredible pie milkshake!
Storing this recipe for Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
To store any uneaten pie, keep it covered with plastic wrap on the counter at room temperature for up to 2 days. Or you can store it for up to 5 days in the fridge.
Best Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Tips
Be sure to freeze rhubarb while it is in season so you can enjoy this pie all year long! Don’t chop the strawberries up too small. They will break down a lot while they bake, so you really just want to quarter them, unless they are really large strawberries. If they are small, you may only need to halve them. A homemade pie crust makes such a difference! I really recommend trying one if you haven’t in a while, but you can always use a frozen or refrigerated pie crust to make things easier. Let the pie cool COMPLETELY before slicing into it. It takes at least 4 hours for a fruit pie like this to cool all the way so it has time to set up.
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This post was originally published in April, 2017. The photos and content were updated in November, 2021.
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