Pie Recipes

Tasty Walnut Pumpkin Pie

Like many pumpkin pie recipes, the Walnut Pumpkin Pie is a much sought after dessert recipes and are usually made for Christmas or other festive celebrations.

  by  pbody 

Ingredients for Pastry:
200 g			        	Plain Flour
100 g			        	Butter; at room temperature
50 g			        	Castor Sugar
50 g			        	Ground Walnuts
1			        	Egg Yolk; lighty beaten

Ingredients for Filling:
700 g			        	Pumpkin Flesh; cubed
70 g			        	Castor Sugar
1 tsp			        	Plain Flour
1/2 tsp				Ground Nutmeg
1/2 tsp				Ground Ginger
2			        	Eggs; lightly beaten
250 ml				Evaporated Milk
1/2 tsp				Vanilla Essence
1/4 tsp				Salt

Method

Mix flour with butter using a pastry cutter till flour is crumbly. Stir in sugar, walnuts and add egg yolk.

Using your fingertips, gently mix to bind the mixture and form into dough. Wrap with a plastic film and chill for half an hour.

To prepare the filling, steam pumpkin till soft. Mash cooked pumpkin before adding the remaining ingredients.

Roll out pastry dough onto floured worktop and spread into a springform fluted 23cm pie tin. Trim off edges. Pour filling onto the pastry.

Bake in preheated oven at 200°C for 40 minutes until the filling is cooked and pastry turns golden.

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