American pumpkin pie comes out deliciously, tender and healthy, if you know how to cook it. A piece of sweet pumpkin pie over a cup of tea will warm you on an autumn evening.

Classic American Pumpkin Pie Recipe

Make such a cinnamon pie. She will give it a unique taste and amazing spicy aroma.

You will need:

  • a piece of butter - 100 g;
  • pumpkin - 0.5 kg;
  • egg - 2 pcs.;
  • cinnamon stick;
  • granulated sugar - 150 g;
  • a pinch of salt;
  • milk - 0.25 l;
  • flour - 0.2 kg.

How to bake pumpkin pie with cinnamon:

  1. Knead the dough. To do this, grind the flour with a sieve.
  2. Pour half of the declared amount of sugar and a pinch of salt into the bowl in it.
  3. We take out the oil from the refrigerator and chop it into cubes. Throw the pieces into flour.
  4. Now chop this mass with a knife, then knead with a fork. It turned out dough from crumbs.
  5. Pour one egg. Hands form a lump from the dough.
  6. It is wrapped in cling film and placed in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
  7. During this time, you can heat the oven up to 200 degrees.
  8. Take a round baking dish, distribute the dough on it and make small sides so that you can lay the filling.
  9. We spread the parchment on the dough, press it on top with something heavy, peas or beans, for example.
  10. We send the base for the pie on the shelf in the oven for 15 minutes.
  11. Then we get the baked dough, remove the load from it. While it cools, let's get into the filling.
  12. Choose an elongated pumpkin, similar to a zucchini. The pulp should be bright orange and sweet.
  13. We remove the peel and seeds from the pumpkin, cut the rest into cubes.
  14. We put them in a pan with milk, fill in the remaining sugar, add cinnamon stick.
  15. Cook the pumpkin on the stove for 30 minutes from the moment of boiling over low heat.
  16. We remove the cinnamon stick, and grind the softened pumpkin slices in a mashed blender.
  17. Pour the resulting filling into the middle of the baked dough and level it over the entire surface of the pie. Make sure that it does not spill over the sides.
  18. We bake the delicacy in the oven for 40 minutes. The temperature is 160 degrees.

With honey and spices

The delicacy comes out sweet, aromatic and very delicate in taste.

Grocery list:

  • white flour - 150 gr;
  • three eggs;
  • pumpkin pulp - 250 gr;
  • cream - 200 ml;
  • cinnamon - 10 gr;
  • honey - 90 ml;
  • ground ginger - 8 g;
  • nutmeg - 10 gr;
  • butter - 150 gr.

Cooking Instructions:

  1. Cut the butter into pieces and put in a bowl of a food processor. Pour flour and chop the mass there.
  2. Divide one raw egg into protein and yolk. Add the yolk to the flour mass, and pour the protein into a clean container.
  3. Turn on the kitchen appliance again and knead the homogeneous dough.
  4. Put the lump of dough on the countertop and roll into a thin cake.
  5. We put it on a round baking surface. Do not forget to leave the edges of the dough for the sides.
  6. Pierce the entire surface of the dough with a fork.
  7. The resulting cake is closed in a preheated oven for 20 minutes.
  8. We chop the peeled pumpkin into pieces and bake in a baking sheet for 20 minutes.
  9. Put soft fragrant pieces in a cup and mashed with a crush.
  10. Break two more eggs into the resulting mass and pour the protein from the first.
  11. Mix everything with a mixer, pour spices, pour honey. Mix the ingredients again and add the cream.
  12. It remains to pour the filling into the baked cake.
  13. Bake the future pie in the oven for half an hour.

American pumpkin pie with seeds

What you need to take:

  • pumpkin seeds and almond petals for decoration.

Components for the test:

  • one chicken egg;
  • flour - 0.23 kg;
  • granulated sugar - 50 gr;
  • a pinch of salt;
  • a piece of butter - 120 g;

Components for the filling:

  • two pinches of vanillin;
  • pumpkin - 0.4 kg;
  • two eggs;
  • cream - 500 ml;
  • sugar - 170 gr.

Cooking the cake step by step:

  1. Add sugar, diced butter, and salt to the flour in the food processor cup.
  2. Process the mass to a crumb condition.
  3. Pour one egg and grind the dough again.
  4. Form from the resulting mass of buns of dough.
  5. With a rolling pin, turn it into a thin layer, with a fork, make holes on its entire surface.
  6. We put the cake cake in the oven, transferring it to a special form and bake for 25 minutes.
  7. During this time, put slices of chopped pumpkin in a deep bowl, pour vanilla, granulated sugar, pour cream on it.
  8. Cook on the stove for 15 minutes. When the pumpkin becomes soft, grind it in mashed potatoes with a blender or mixer.
  9. Cool the mashed potatoes, remove the cake from the oven.
  10. Break the remaining eggs into a warm pumpkin filling and go through the mixture with a mixer.
  11. We distribute the pumpkin filling over the cake and put on the shelf in the oven to bake for another half hour.
  12. Cool the finished cake. Sprinkle pumpkin seeds or almonds on top.

With condensed milk

The composition of the recipe:

Filling:

  • a pinch of salt;
  • pumpkin puree - 0.45 kg;
  • vanilla sugar - 20 g;
  • two eggs;
  • nutmeg - 3 gr;
  • a can of condensed milk;
  • cinnamon - 5 gr;

Dough:

  • sugar - 50 gr;
  • a piece of oil - 130 g;
  • one egg;
  • flour - 0.25 kg;
  • vanilla sugar - 10 g.

How to cook pumpkin pie with condensed milk:

  1. Pour the flour into the bowl, throw pieces of cold oil there. With a knife, chop the mass into crumbs.
  2. Pour both types of sugar, pour the egg and form a dough.
  3. Remove the lump of dough in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
  4. At this time, mashed the pumpkin.
  5. Add condensed milk, vanilla, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg and raw eggs to it. With a whisk, knead a homogeneous pumpkin filling.
  6. Roll out the cooled dough into a cake. Put it in a round baking dish. Make along the edges of the sides so that the filling does not spill out of the pie.
  7. Add the filling, spreading evenly over the cake. Place the dessert in the oven for 15 minutes at 200 degrees.
  8. Then reduce it to 170 degrees and cook for 35 minutes.

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Secrets and nuances of cooking

The most important thing in the American dessert is the filling. Therefore, it is important in cooking - choose a sweet, good pumpkin.

  1. In no case do not take fodder crop varieties. The vegetable should have an elongated pear shape, and its flesh should have a bright orange color. Baked pumpkin will have a sweet taste and delicate aroma.
  2. Add cinnamon to the cake. The combination of cinnamon and pumpkin gives a wonderful unique taste.
  3. Do not regret adding spices, especially nutmeg or ginger.
  4. Before you pour the filling into it, be sure to bake a few minutes. So it will keep its shape, and the pumpkin will not spill out of it and will not burn.

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