This very easy recipe is perfect for all your family. It uses butternut squash instead of pumpkin, which are equally available, and easier to cook. Try it out!
You will need:
Lamb Brand Plain Flour 150g
Lamb Brand Brown Sugar 65g
Lamb Brand Self-raising Flour 35g
Lamb Brand Icing Sugar 2 tbsp
Lamb Brand Corn Flour 2 tbsp
Lamb Brand Ground Cinnamon 1 tsp
Lamb Brand Ground Nutmeg 1 tsp
Lamb Brand Ground Ginger 1 tsp
Lamb Brand Ground Cardamom 1 tsp
Butternut Squash 600g, cooked mashed
Cream 180ml
Eggs 3 Maple
Syrup 2 tbsp
Water 2 tbsp, approx
All you have to do is:
1. Lightly grease 23cm pie plate.
2. Sift flours and icing sugar into large bowl, rub in butter, add enough water to make ingredients cling together. Press dough into a ball, knead dough on floured surface until smooth. Cover with plastic wrap, refrigerate for 30 minutes.
3. Roll pastry between sheets of baking paper until large enough to line prepared plate. Lift pastry into plate, ease into side, trim and decorate edge (if you want). Place plate on lightly greased oven tray. Cut leaf shapes from leftover pastry, place around plate on tray. Cover, refrigerate for 30 minutes.
4. Bake pastry case, in moderately hot oven about 20 minutes or until lightly browned; cool. Remove leaves from tray.
5. Whisk eggs, brown sugar and syrup together in medium bowl. Stir in pumpkin, cream and spices; pour into pastry case.
6. Bake in moderate oven about 55 minutes or until filling is set (cover edge of pastry if over-browning). Decorate pie with leaves.