Crust and Pumpkin Pie Filling Recipe
Crust Recipe:
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 stick unsalted butter, very-cold, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
- 3 to 4 Tbsp ice water, very cold
Crust Instructions:
- Mix all the dry ingredients in your food processor
- Add butter to processor and mix until tiny butter chunks still exist
- Add a little water at a time to processor until you can squish the mixture between your fingers and it sticks
- Pour flour on a clean lightly flourered surface and roll mixture into a ball using your palms and then plastic wrap.
- Place ball into refrigerator for at least 1 hour
- Roll out ball on a clean flat surface, using a little flour so it will not stick
- When the crust is about 1/4-1/2 mm thick, place on and flatten into your 9 inch glass pie dish
Pie Filling Recipe:
- 2 cups of homemade (or canned) pumpkin purée*
- 1 cup evaporated light vanilla silk soy milk (or milk, coconut milk, or condensced milk)**
- 1/2 cup packed dark
brown sugar
- 1/3 cup white sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs plus the yolk
of a third egg
- 2 teaspoons of
cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground
ginger
- 3/4 teaspoon garam masala (I used this to replace 1/4 nutmeg, 1/4 cloves, and 1/4 cardamom)
*I made my pumpkin purée from a small sugar pumpkin bought at a regular grocery store. As the pictures show you below, I cut the pumpkin in half and scrapped the seeds and strings out. I cooked my pumpkin halves with my pressure cooked. This only takes 5 minutes. Place a few inches of water in the bottom of the pressure cooker, put in pumpkin, cover pressure cooker, heat until you hear the whistle, reduce heat to medium, go for 5 minutes, turn off pressure cooker and let cool. Remove pumpkin and scrape the purée.
**Because I only had light vanilla silk soy milk on hand, I made my own evaporated milk. I took 3 cups of soy milk and brought to a boil in saucer; I reduced the heat to medium and then let the soy milk reduce half way. Turn off heat and add as much sugar as you like, sweeten to taste (approximately 1/2 cup to 1 cup white sugar). It is probably easier to just buy a can of evaporated milk (99 cents at regular grocery store).