Pumpkin pie is undeniably a delicious dessert. Shortbread dough with baked pumpkin filling mixed with cream and egg. I propose to cook this delicious delicacy.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Sweet Pumpkin Pie is an impeccably iconic American dessert. Traditionally, it is baked throughout the fall. For example, in America, a fragrant and delicious pumpkin pie can be found on Halloween, Thanksgiving, and, of course, Christmas. On these holidays, it is almost mandatory, its status can be compared to a "bowl of Olivier salad" for the Russian New Year. Today's review will be devoted to this legendary pastry - the famous American pumpkin pie, or as it is also called "Pumpkin pie".
The basis for this product is thin shortcrust pastry. The ideal base must be crumbly, but not very crumbly. However, the "face" of the American pie is the filling! Its layer should be several times thicker than the dough layer. She is a cheerful yellow-orange hue, very delicate and soft. The taste is creamy pumpkin, with a strong and bright bouquet of spices, where cinnamon is required, and sometimes you can find nutmeg, vanilla, cloves, ginger, less often lemon zest, cardamom, allspice Jamaican pepper. Americans put a lot of spices, just tablespoons. However, it seems to me that they do not set off, but completely clog the pumpkin-creamy taste. Although this is not for everybody.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 224 kcal.
- Servings Per Container - 1 Pie
- Cooking time - 1 hour 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin - 350 g
- Ground ginger powder - 1 tsp
- Cream - 250 ml
- Flour - 200 g
- Butter - 100 g
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Honey - 3-4 tablespoons
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
Step-by-step recipe for American Pumpkin Pie:
1. First of all, prepare the base cake. Pour flour into a food processor and add softened butter.
2. Knock the food to make a free-flowing flour crumbs.
3. Break the egg and separate the white from the yolk. Set the egg white aside, it will come in handy later, and add the yolk to the dough.
4. Knead the dough again until it forms a smooth lump. The dough should not stick to your hands. If this happens, add a little flour. If you do not have such a kitchen unit, then knead the dough with your hands.
5. Take a baking dish with split sides and line it with a thin layer of crust (about 0.5-0.7 mm) with 2.5 cm sides. Make punctures on the dough with a fork.
6. Heat the oven to 180 degrees and send the cake to bake for 25 minutes. It should only lightly brown.
7. In the meantime, peel the skins, seeds and fibers from the pumpkin. Place in a strainer and wash. Wipe dry, cut into smaller pieces and send to bake in the oven for 20 minutes. Its consistency should be very soft.
8. Then grind the pumpkin with a pusher or blender.
9. Its consistency should become uniform, without lumps.
10. After that, beat one egg into the pumpkin puree and pour the protein that was left at the beginning of cooking.
11. Whisk food with a mixer or blender, add honey, cinnamon and ginger. You can add any other spices to your taste. If the honey is too thick, then melt it in a water bath to a liquid consistency.
12. Pour the cream into the pumpkin mixture and mix well again.
13. Pour the pumpkin mixture into a mold with a baked shortbread base.
14. Send the cake to the oven for another half hour at 180 degrees. When the top of the product acquires a pleasant orange hue, the cake is ready and can be removed from the oven.
15. After baking, the pumpkin mass will be very tender and airy. Therefore, the pumpkin pie should be completely cooled. Then the filling will become denser. To do this, leave the product to cool at room temperature, and then cool in the refrigerator. And if you cut it hot, the filling will not keep its shape, and may even leak out.
See also the video recipe on how to make American Pumpkin Pie.
