A Piece of Pie!

                                                             

Hello you beautiful people. As you might have noticed I've really been getting in the seasonal spirit this year with pumpkin Carving and going for long walks in all the crunchy leaves. Well today I took that one step further and tried out a great alternative recipe to the american classic dessert Pumpkin Pie.

Around here about a week before Halloween a vast majority (if not all) the pumpkins in the supermarkets have been bought up and the only way to get your hands on one is to sell one of your kidneys to buy a pumpkin from a local farm (they get super expensive!).  No need to panic as I have found several recipes claiming you can make the traditional pumpkin pie but sub out the pumpkin with Sweet potato or butternut squash. Much to my surprise It turns out they were right! This recipe makes One large and exceptionally tasty pie!

So here is my version of the recipe.

Ingredients :

375 g of Sweet potato (peeled and chopped)
375 g of Butternut Squash (peeled and chopped)
140 g of caster sugar
2 eggs (beaten)
25 g (melted) unsalted butter
175 ml of double cream
1/2 tsp of salt
1/2 tsp of nutmeg
1/2 tsp of ginger
1 tsp of cinnamon
350 g of sweet shortcrust pastry

How to work the magic:

1) place the sweet potato and butternut squash in a pan, cover with water and bring to the boil. let it boil for 20 minutes or until they are nice and tender.

2) puree the sweet potato and squash in a food blender and leave in a mixing bowl to cool down. (whilst it's cooling down prepare the pastry shell)

3) Pre-heat the oven to 200 C (180 C  for a fan assisted oven).

4) In a separate bowl mix together the sugar, salt and spices mix in the melted butter, beaten eggs and double cream then stir in the puree mix until well combined.

5) Pour the filling into the pastry shell and put into the oven for 10 minutes. Reduce the temperature to 180 C (160 C for fan assisted oven) bake for 30-40 minutes or until the filling has set.

6) Leave the pie to cool then dust with a mix of 1 tbsp of icing sugar and 1 tsp of cinnamon.

You could make lots of little tarts instead of a big one if that floats your boat!

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