Savory pumpkin pie | jack o lantern pumpkin pie recipe
I prepared the pumpkin filling inspired from a traditional Indian pumpkin side dish which pairs well with bread and it tasted delicious as a Pie too .There were no leftovers.
Course
Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine
Afghanistan, American, East Indian, european, Fusion
Keyword
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Prep Time45minutes
Cook Time45minutes
Cooling time30minutes
Total Time2hours
Servings4person
Authorindrani
Ingredients
Ingredients
Pie crust
2cupsall-purpose flour
1/4tsp.salt
2tsp.granulated sugar
10 to 12tbsp.cold unsalted buttercut into small pieces
6tbsp.ice water
Filling
200gm of pumpkin
4 to 5curry leaves
1tspmustard seeds
1tspcumin seeds
2medium garlic cloves crushed
1whole dried red chili
1/2tspred chili powder
Salt to taste
1green chili chopped
1/2cupcream
2tbspof ghee or oil
1egg
Instructions
Instructions
Dough
Mix all the ingredients into a crumbly texture
Bring all together with hands
Add ice cold water and form a dough
Divide the dough into two balls
Blind baking
Grease the tart mold with butter
Dust the mold with flour
roll the dough into a thin round circle
Layer the mold with the flour disk.
Place some weight like dried beans on it and blind bake for 20 minutes minutes at 180 degrees
Filling
Roast the pumpkin in the oven for 30 minutes till mushy
Heat the oil in a pan
Add a tempering with mustard seeds ,followed by cumin seeds and curry leaves and red chili
Add crushed garlic and fry.
Add the roasted pumpkin mash into this
Add red chili powder and mix
Add salt
Pour cream into the mixture.
Add chopped green chili
Puree the mixture in a blender
let the mixture cool
Add a beaten egg and mix
Assembling the pie
Roll the top layer of the pie and cut a Jack o lantern face