Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients

• 1 quantity of pastry
• 600g butternut pumpkin, chopped.
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/3 cup single/pouring cream
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• freshly grated nutmeg for serving.

Method

Should we be pre-cooking the pastry or not?

• Heat oven to 150 degrees.
• Steam choppped pumpkin until cooked. Puree in blender and leave to go cold.
• At sugar, eggs, cream, and cinnamon. Blend again. (You are meant to whisk this, so the more frothy it gets, the better!)
• Place pastry in a flan dish.
• Pour in pumpkin mixture and cook for about 50 minutes.
• Sprinkle with nutmeg to serve.

Source

Modern Classics 2 - Donna Hay