Piquant Pumpkin Pie

December 22, 2012

As a vegetarian, I to a greater extent than oftentimes than non savor the vitriol on Cooking for Assholes to a greater extent than than the recipes. But I liked that Cooking Asshole's get got on pumpkin pie - less sugar'n'spice, to a greater extent than thyme together with bluish cheese. I should've known that his mention for it, blumpkin pie, has other unsavoury connotations. (If you lot don't know, I don't recommend googling it - you lot won't live able to await at the higher upward photograph inwards the same means again.)

It seems meliorate suited to spill than mid-summer, but Aussie Farmers saw represent to deliver us a pumpkin this fortnight together with nosotros went alongside it. Sadly our nutrient processor was unwilling to come upward along for the ride, together with this took a duo of hours longer than it should get got alongside much wrestling of sloppy pastry along the way. Feel gratuitous to substitute your ain to a greater extent than reliable nutrient processor or a dissimilar shortcrust recipe for what I've outlined below.

The pie was a piddling mushy together with messy served warm together with much meliorate behaved when given unopen to fourth dimension inwards the refrigerator to cool down. Either way, the filling works: sweetness working alongside savoury, shine studded alongside crunchy.

Piquant pumpkin pie
(slightly adapted from Cooking for Assholes)

crust
1 1/4 cups apparently flour, summation extra for dusting
1 teaspoon salt
120g butter
three tablespoons iced water

filling
700g pumpkin
1/2 loving cup brownish sugar
1/4 loving cup cream
two eggs, beaten
1/2 loving cup bluish cheese, crumbled
1/2 loving cup pecans, chopped
two tablespoons fresh thyme leaves
salt

Preheat an oven to 200°C. Slice the pumpkin into thick wedges together with take away the seeds together with stringy bits inwards the centre. Place the wedges an oven tray together with encompass them loosely alongside foil. Bake the pumpkin for xxx minutes, or until tender. 

Turn the oven downwardly to 180°C together with reach off the crust. Place the flour together with tabular array salt inwards a nutrient processor. Cut the butter into cubes together with throw it inwards too. Pulse the ingredients until they clump similar breadcrumbs. Add the iced H2O together with blend until the pastry dough comes together.

Roll a large canvas of plastic wind onto a bench together with toss the dough on it, bringing it together into a ball. Cover it alongside a 2nd canvas of plastic wrap, together with hence gently scroll it out to represent a pie dish. Take off 1 plastic canvas ease it into a pie dish pastry-first, removing the 2nd plastic layer together with trimming the edges to fit. Prick the bottom of the pastry alongside a fork together with bake it for 10 minutes.

Cut the pare away from the pumpkin wedges together with house them inwards a large bowl alongside the sugar, cream together with eggs. Use a stick blender to puree the pumpkin filling. Fold inwards the cheese, pecans together with thyme together with sprinkle over salt, to taste. Pour the mixture into the pie crust, shine over the top together with encompass the pie alongside foil. Bake it for almost 55 minutes, until the pie has gear upward through. Allow it to balance for at to the lowest degree 10 minutes, together with potentially several hours, earlier slicing together with serving.