It’s Halloween already, can you believe it? So this year when you’re buying your pumpkins for carving, buy an extra one to make this delicious recipe – or use the off cuts from your creative pumpkin designs! If you’ve never tried pumpkin pie before, here’s your chance.
Ingredients
- 500g Pumpkin (1 small pumpkin)
- 200g Condensed Milk (Half a tin)
- 1 egg
- 1 Tsp Ground Cinnamon
- ½ Tsp Ground Nutmeg
- ½ Tsp Ground Ginger
- 500g Shortcrust Pastry
Directions
- Use a large sharp knife to cut your pumpkin into segments. Cut the skin off and scrape out the seeds and inner flesh using a large spoon. Bring a large pan of water to boil. Cut the pumpkin into even sized chunks and place in the water. Leave boiling until you can easily cut the pumpkin with a cutlery knife (about one hour).
- Preheat the oven to 200ᵒC.
- Lightly flour a clean work surface and roll out the shortcrust pastry to about 3mm thickness. Line a 20cm tart ring, making sure the pastry is pushed firmly into the edges, and neatly cut away the excess pastry around the top. Chill in the fridge until the pastry is firm.
- Line the pastry case with baking paper, making sure it’s pressed right into the edges, and fill with baking beans to blind bake.
- Bake the pastry into the middle of the oven for 10 minutes. Remove the baking beans and bake for another 5 minutes. The pastry should be lightly golden and sandy to touch. Reduce the oven temperature to 180ᵒC.
- When the pumpkin has softened, drain and whiz into a food processor until smooth. Set aside to cool slightly.
- Mix together the condensed milk, egg, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. Add the cooled pumpkin and combine. Pour the mixture into the blind baked pastry case.
- Place the pie in the centre of the oven and bake for 20 minutes. Check the pie by giving it a gentle wobble. If the mixture moves around, bake for another 5-10 minutes and continue this process until it holds its shape. Remove from the oven and leave to stand in the tart ring for about an hour.
- Remove the pie from the tart ring, cut into slices and serve with whipped cream.
