Due to the eternal lack of time, housewives are increasingly interested in dishes from the category of “simple recipe”. Pumpkin pie can easily be attributed to this category. In any case, even a novice cook can cope with most variations. And the results of cookery will appeal even to family members who do not like sunny vegetables.
Interesting option
If you started to bake pumpkin pie, the simplest recipe does not require a lot of time and an abundance of ingredients. Unless you have to wait until he insists: on the second day, the cake will be much tastier. Pumpkin must be taken sweet varieties. Usually it is bright, orange. The vegetable is peeled and rubs coarsely; it will go for dessert a little less than a third of a kilogram.
Grams of 350 flour are sifted and mixed with half a teaspoon of soda (no need to extinguish), a small lemon peel and a half pack of butter. The result will be like breadcrumbs. Now they add pumpkin, a little fresh grated ginger and lemon juice, from which the zest was removed. Two eggs beat well with four tablespoons of sugar (its amount may vary depending on the sweetness of the pumpkin). Both masses carefully, in the direction from the bottom up, are combined.
The mold is smeared with a piece of oil, the dough is distributed in it and sprinkled with crushed nuts. In an hour and a third you will have a wonderful pumpkin pie on the table. A simple recipe, isn't it? And for greater seductiveness, you can still decorate it with berries from jam or sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Another pumpkin pie: a simple recipe with a photo
For this dessert, too many skills are not needed. But the preliminary work will need a little more. However, this is still a very simple recipe. Pumpkin pie on it is very tender, with a rich taste. A vegetable in the amount of three hundred grams is rubbed into a bowl where the dough will be kneaded. Half a glass of raisins is steamed with boiling water until soft, but without spilling, dried and added to the pumpkin. After intermediate mixing, two eggs are driven into the mass, half a glass of sugar and two flours are poured with a spoon of baking powder, half a glass of fat sour cream is poured. The dough should be bulk, but very thick. The baking dish is smeared and sprinkled with semolina, the future cake is poured into it and leveled, the oven is heated to 180 Celsius. Half an hour - and you can lure children to yummy.
Dough for american pie
A pumpkin pie from America is considered a classic. However, one cannot say that he has such a simple recipe. Pumpkin pie, however, can still be baked as close to the prototype as possible, but without unnecessary difficulties: our inventive culinary specialists made life easier for their followers. The dough is dispensed with without complex chef manipulations and it turns out as it should: friable, thinly rolling, but not crumbling. And it’s done elementarily: a glass of flour (incomplete) and a full spoon of powdered sugar are added to the bowl, plus half a packet of butter (only good, not some kind of spread) butter is rubbed and two eggs are driven in. It’s good to grate the zest with half a lemon. The components are kneaded to smoothness, the dough is wrapped in a film and hidden in the cold for exactly an hour. After that, a thin layer is rolled out of it, with which the shape is laid - with the capture of the sides.
Stuffing is the main thing!
Using such a simple recipe, we have already done half the pumpkin pie. The point is the right stuffing. There should be a lot of it so that the entire bowl of dough is filled with a knoll. Therefore, a whole kilogram of pumpkins is taken, cut into small pieces and cooked until soft, about a third of an hour. When the vegetable cools down and the excess water drains, it is made of lush mashed potatoes with the addition of sugar (approximately 80 grams), half the amount of natural honey, three pre-beaten eggs and cinnamon with nutmeg. After thorough kneading, half a glass of cream, the fattest that you can buy, is poured in, and the filling again gets in the way. It is poured into a doughy form and the cake is hidden in the oven for about forty minutes. The oven should be heated to 200 degrees.
A multicooker goes into battle!
Owning a wonderful kitchen helper is even easier to bake pumpkin pie. A simple recipe for this unit offers to beat four eggs with a glass of sugar, gradually adding sour cream and flour with baking powder (and one and the other also in a glass). When the whipping results satisfy you, a glass of grated vegetable is added. Now you need to knead with a spoon. The bowl of the multicooker is smeared with a piece of oil and sprinkled with semolina. The dough is poured into a container, the baking program is selected, the timer is set for 50 minutes. You can’t take it out immediately, the cake should cool down gradually, right in the bowl. Before you bring dessert to tea for children, it is sprinkled with powdered sugar.