Among vegetables, pumpkin is called the queen of autumn. Its bright orange juicy and sweet fruits, ripening in late summer - early autumn, can be stored for a long time even in an apartment. This makes it possible for almost the entire winter period to please homemade people with bright, tasty, healthy pastries and, for example, bake pumpkin pie in a slow cooker.
Material Content:
Classic pumpkin pie in a slow cooker
The proportions of the ingredients for a classic pie using an orange vegetable will be as follows:
- 100 g butter;
- 180 g of sugar;
- 2 eggs;
- 200 ml of pumpkin puree;
- 10 g of baking powder;
- 240 g of flour;
- 5 g vanilla;
- 5 g of cinnamon;
- 3 g nutmeg;
- 3 g of salt;
- 90 g chopped walnuts;
Cake recipe step by step:
- Pour sifted flour, spices and baking powder into one dish. To make all the ingredients combine well, stir the mixture with a whisk.
- Make mashed potatoes from pumpkin. It can be raw, for this the vegetable is simply crushed with a blender. For a more gentle result, the pumpkin pulp is pre-baked or steamed.
- Soft butter beat with sugar. When the mass brightens and becomes homogeneous, eggs are introduced one at a time. Next comes the mashed vegetables and bulk components of the dough. The nuts are added last.
- Oven in a greased multicooker bowl for approximately 1 hour 20 minutes before testing for a dry toothpick. If after the specified time the cake is wet, you just need to leave it heated until ready.
With semolina
Delicate pumpkin pie with semolina is prepared from the following set of products:
- 200 ml of pumpkin puree;
- 2 eggs;
- 180 g of sugar;
- 14 g of baking powder;
- 60 ml of vegetable oil;
- 70 g of flour;
- 70 g semolina;
- raisins, nuts and spices to taste.
Working process:
- Mix pumpkin puree with semolina and forget about it for 20-30 minutes.Semka perfectly absorbs excess liquid in mashed potatoes and the dough will not be too wet.
- Beat the eggs with sugar until a lighter color with a mixer. In the resulting lush mass, we send mashed potatoes with semolina and vegetable oil, carefully knead with a spoon.
- Next, sift the baking powder and flour into the dough. If desired, raisins and crushed nuts can be put in the pie, and cinnamon, vanilla, cardamom, almonds from spices.
- We bake dessert in the greased multicooker bowl using the “Baking” function. Depending on the power of the gadget, the cake will be ready in 40-60 minutes. Before serving, you can decorate it with icing sugar.
Pumpkin pie with cottage cheese in a slow cooker
For a pie with pumpkin and cottage cheese you will need:
- 200 g of pumpkin pulp;
- 200 g of cottage cheese;
- 2 eggs;
- 180 g of sugar;
- 130 g of flour;
- 5 g of baking powder;
- 15 ml of vegetable oil.
Bakery products:
- Grind the pulp of a pumpkin with a blender or fine grater. Squeezed out the juice with your hands.
- Beat the eggs in a lush foam with sugar, add a mixture of flour and baking powder, lay the prepared pumpkin after it.
- Grease the bowl of the multicooker with vegetable oil and transfer the dough into it. On top of it, randomly lay the cottage cheese with a spoon.
- Cook in the “Baking / Cake” mode for 45-60 minutes.
On kefir
Even the simplest kefir biscuit recipe will turn into a bright and fragrant dessert if you include the queen of autumn - pumpkin in the composition of its ingredients.
In this case, the proportions of the products will be as follows:
- 200 ml of kefir (or yogurt);
- 180 sugar;
- 2 eggs;
- 200 g pumpkin;
- 340 g flour;
- 5 g of soda;
- 15 ml of lemon juice;
- 4 g of cinnamon;
- 5 ml of vegetable oil;
- 20 g of orange peel.
Cooking method:
- Transfer steamed or baked in the oven pumpkin pulp into a blender bowl, add sugar, orange zest and beat everything until smooth.
- Pour warm kefir into a bowl for kneading dough, beat eggs, sift cinnamon and add lemon juice. Thoroughly mix these products, and then combine them with the pumpkin mass.
- Now sift flour in several parts with soda. Stir until smooth dough, as for fritters. Bake in a greased bowl multicooker 1 hour 20 minutes at a power of 700 watts. For more powerful devices, cooking time can be reduced by a quarter of an hour. Willingness to check with a toothpick.
American pumpkin pie in a slow cooker
To bake a traditional American dessert for Halloween and Thanksgiving, for a chopped shortcrust pastry, you need to take:
- 150 g butter;
- 210 g flour;
- 1 yolk;
- 15-45 ml of water;
- 3 g of salt.
The composition of a gentle pumpkin filling includes:
- 450 g of ready pumpkin puree;
- 300 g of condensed milk;
- 3 eggs;
- 5 g of cinnamon;
- 5 g ground ginger;
- 3 g of clove powder;
- 3 g black pepper;
- 3 g of salt.
How to bake:
- For the dough, use a food processor or a blender to first crush cold butter with flour and salt into crumbs.
- Then add the yolk and a couple of tablespoons of ice water, continuing to mix in pulses so that the dough is collected in a lump. Remove the finished dough for an hour in the cold to stabilize.
- For the filling, beat the eggs with a mixer or a whisk until light foam, add pumpkin puree, spices and condensed milk to them. Stir everything until smooth.In the process of preparing pumpkin puree, you can also use a slow cooker. First, boil the flesh of an orange vegetable in a slow cooker for a couple, then beat it with a blender and put it on a sieve for a while, so that the glass has excess liquid.
- With a chilled dough, line the bottom and sides of the future pie in the multicooker bowl, after laying two wide strips of parchment crosswise under it.
- Pour pumpkin stuffing on top and cook the pie for 60 minutes using the “Baking” option. Take out the finished product only after cooling completely, gently pulling the paper strips.
With pumpkin and apples
In the process of baking a dessert, a pie with pumpkin and apples in a slow cooker will need:
- 350 g pumpkin;
- 150 g of apples;
- 260 g of flour;
- 200 g semolina;
- 3 eggs;
- 300 g of sugar;
- 14 g of baking powder;
- 5 g of vanilla sugar;
- 3 g of salt.
Bake as follows:
- Grind the pulp of pumpkin without skin and seeds with a grater with large holes. After removing the core and peeling, chop the apples in small cubes.
- Beat eggs with salt, then gradually introduce sugar, including vanilla. Drown pumpkin and apples in egg foam.
- Next, mix flour and baking powder into the dough. The last ingredient to go to the total mass is semolina. Its amount can be slightly reduced or increased depending on the juiciness of apples and pumpkins.
- Grease the crock-pot with a small amount of oil, sprinkle with semolina and transfer the dough into it. Bake the cake using the gadget function provided for baking. Cooking time will be within 40-60 minutes.
Egg-free diet dessert
During fasting, you can bake a diet pumpkin pie without eggs in the composition, for this you need:
- 250 ml of kefir;
- 100-180 g of sugar;
- 100 ml of vegetable oil;
- 5 g of soda;
- 3 g of salt;
- 5-10 g of cinnamon;
- 150 g grated pumpkin;
- 300 g of flour.
Baking Algorithm:
- Preparation of the test will take very little time. You just need to prepare a mixture of bulk and liquid ingredients, and then combine them. For the dry component of the pie you need to combine together soda, salt, cinnamon, flour and stir them with a culinary whisk.
- In a separate container, combine warm kefir, sugar, vegetable oil and grated orange vegetable. When the mixture becomes homogeneous, in several stages introduce dry products and stir with a spoon or a mixer with nozzles for the dough.
- Transfer the dough into the prepared electric pan and bake it in a slow cooker for 60–65 minutes. Ready dessert can be decorated with glaze.