Easy Pumpkin Pie Recipe

This Easy Pumpkin Pie Recipe is a delicious dessert very knows in USA cuisine. Furthermore, this recipe is typical of the autumn and winter season as it cooks with yellow squash, so it tastes best for holidays or family lunches on weekends.

How To Make Pumpkin Pie

The process divides into the stage of making this pie recipe. The first one is making the dough for the pie noodle.
The second step is to make pumpkin puree and the pie filling, and the third, the lay of the pie and its baking.

Moreover, for the dough, we will use a kitchen robot. In this way, it is not over-processed because the butter will melt.
Otherwise, processing the butter faster will leave spots, and the dough will have a much special kind of fragrance.

Also, you can make the dough by hand. In this case, we will advise you to put the butter in the freezer first and then grind it on the thicker side in the grater on top of the flour.

The doses given below are for a 22-24cm baking pan. In other terms, when you need to cook a covered pie, you will double the doses for the dough.

As for the pumpkin filling, you can use ready-made canned pumpkin puree or cook it by yourself.
Unable to get it ready, we can prepare the pumpkin puree ourselves, which is even fresher and tastier. So, I did not find it on the market, and I made it at home.

Also, the filling cream is simple. Once we have the pumpkin puree ready, it is enough to add the other ingredients and mix them easily.
In terms of laying, we will consider opening the noodle on a baking sheet for ease of placement in the baking pan, and we will use a flat casserole as the custard pie try or sweet pie.
For more, follow the steps below.

Ingredients

For the dough

• Flour 210 g
• Sugar 1 tbsp
• Butter 130 g
• Cold Water 50 ml
• a pinch of salt

Cream filling

• 400 g of pumpkin puree (1 kg raw pumpkin)
• 2 eggs+1 egg yolk
• 250 ml of fresh cream
• 120 g of sugar
• 1 tbsp of cornstarch
• 1 egg for the top
• spices: 1 tsp of cinnamon powder, 1/2 tsp of ginger powder, a pinch of nutmeg, a pinch of clove powder
• vanilla, a pinch of salt.
• Whipping cream for serving

Directions

The Dough

1. We will prepare the dough for the pumpkin cake. First, throw the flour, sugar, and a little salt into the kitchen robot.
2. Then, mix it a little and add the butter. Mix it several times intermittently and see that it disperses by granulating the flour.
3. At this point, we will add the cold water and mix it a few more times. The dough will form, and we no longer knead it.
4. Then, wrap it directly with a transparent bag and give it the shape by wrapping it and compressing it a little. And giving shape to make it easy to roll the noodle after.
5. Next, leave the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes. Also, you can prepare it in advance for the next day. Once we finish with the dough, we will continue with the pumpkin puree.

Pureja e Kungullit dhe Kremi

1. For this recipe, we will need one piece of one kg yellow pumpkin. So, put it in a pan with all the skin with baking paper and bake it in the oven preheated to 200 degrees for an hour.
2. Once it cooks, we will let the pumpkin cool, and we will blend its pulp.
3. Next, add the mashed pumpkin puree to a deep bowl. There we will add the eggs and mix them.
4. Then, add the sugar and the fresh cream. Also, dissolve the starch in a small amount of cream. In this way, it does not granulate.
5. So, we will add this solution and all the spices. If you do not like any of them, do not add them.
6. Moreover, we don’t beat the cream too much so as not to get too much air inside. We will mix it by hand lightly until the whole mass is mixed.

Laying And Baking

1. First, roll out the dough into a noodle on a 35 cm diameter above a baking paper. Then, transfer it to the baking pan and arrange the sides nicely.
   
2. Next, beat the egg, and with a kitchen brush, we will carefully paint the sides of the pie crust.
3. Finally, add the cream and bake in the preheated oven at 170 degrees for 55-60 minutes.
4. Once ready, take the pumpkin cake out of the oven and let it cool.
5. In the end, serve it cut into pieces accompanied by fresh whipping cream on top.

Bon Appetit!

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