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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

It's Halloween, let's make a Pumpkin Pie!



Ingredients:
for the pie crust: 200gr flour, 100gr butter, 1 egg yolk, 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar, salt.
for the filling: 700gr pumpkin, 4 eggs, 80gr of sugar, 20gr of starch, 2 teaspoons honey, 2dl of cream, 20gr of sliced ​​almonds, 20gr of raw cane sugar for garnish.

Prepare the crust by working quickly together flour, salt, sugar, egg yolk, softened butter and 1dl ofwater. Stop kneading as soon as the flour is all absorbed. Make a ball and let rest in a cool place for 2 hours, wrapped in a sheet of kitchen cellophane. Prepare a pastry sheet to cover bottom and sides of a well greased cake pan, 22 cm large. Cook it in the oven at 200°C for about 10 minutes without any stuffing, just covered with parchment paper and filled with beans or those of porcelain beads just made to keep dough flat while baking in the oven.

Meanwhile, prepare the filling Whip together eggs, sugar, starch and cream to obtain a homogeneous mixture without lumps. Peel the pumpkin, cut first into slices about 3 cm thick and after in pieces of 3 mm. In a saucepan heat honey and then add the pumpkin slices and cook them until golden. Remove the pie crust from the oven and take off the parchment paper that covers it and beats.

Pour inside the cooked pumpkin and cover it with the mixture of cream and eggs.
Garnish over all with almonds, brown sugar and place back in the oven again for 10 or 15 minutes. Let cool before serving.

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