Halloween treats can range from scary and gruesome to classic. But regardless of the style and concept of the holiday, there should be a pumpkin on the table. And not just any Jack-O-Lantern, but definitely popular pumpkin dishes, including pumpkin pies. Housewives complain about the lack of various pumpkin recipes. Let's debunk this culinary myth. We bring to your attention 10 unusual pumpkin pies for every taste.
Classic pumpkin pie: quick and tasty recipes
Let's start with the classics. This will be a simple pumpkin pie recipe that doesn't require a ton of ingredients. But this will not make it any less tasty and aromatic. So, let's start preparing a budget version of pumpkin pie.
Ingredients:
- grated pumpkin – 2 cups;
- flour - 3 cups;
- butter – 2–3 tablespoons;
- chicken eggs – 2–3 pcs.;
- granulated sugar – 2 cups;
- soda – 2 teaspoons;
- vinegar – 2 tsp;
- walnuts – 1/4 cup;
- sunflower oil – 6 tbsp. l.
Separate the yolks from the whites. This must be done carefully so that the ingredients do not mix. Beat the yolks with sugar until all the grains have dissolved.
Do not reduce the amount of granulated sugar. It is two glasses that will provide the necessary taste for our pie.
When the mass doubles, add softened butter. No need to melt it. It is enough to take it out first and keep it warm.
Now we begin to work with proteins. Add a pinch of salt to them and beat, but not until peaks form. Add the whites to the yolk-butter mixture. We extinguish the soda with vinegar and pour it into the eggs and mix.
Immediately add all the sunflower oil.
It's the pumpkin's turn. It does not need to be baked or boiled.
It is enough to rinse the peeled pieces and grate them on a coarse grater.
Do not worry. The pumpkin will be baked and will not be soggy in the pie. Sift all the flour into a separate bowl and add all the prepared ingredients to it.
All that remains is to add the walnuts, which need to be chopped a little beforehand.
Line a baking pan with parchment paper and grease it with butter. Pour out all the dough and put it in the oven. We will bake the classic pumpkin pie at 180⁰ for about half an hour.
Take out our miracle pie, after checking its readiness with a match.
Diet pumpkin pie
Fighting for a wasp waist is not a reason to refuse a delicious Halloween treat. And don't refuse. Bake a fragrant, delicious pumpkin pie in the oven with a minimum of calories.
We will need:
- pumpkins – 500 gr.
- oat flour – 250 gr.
- walnuts – 150 gr.
- eggs – 2 pcs.
- yogurt – 200 ml.
For the diet pie we will bake pumpkin. To do this, we cut it into fairly large pieces, peel it and put it in the oven and microwave. When the vegetable becomes soft, take it out and let it cool. Using an immersion blender, prepare pumpkin puree. We will use it in the pie.
Pour oatmeal into a bowl, not flakes, but flour. You can easily do it yourself.
To do this, place oatmeal in a coffee grinder, not instant oats, but those that need to be cooked, and bring to the desired consistency.
Beat eggs into flour, add yogurt, pumpkin puree and nuts. Mix everything thoroughly. Pour the dough into a pan greased and sprinkled with oatmeal. And put it in the oven, where it will spend up to 40 minutes. The diet pumpkin pie is ready. We take it out of the oven and let it cool slightly.
American pumpkin pie
This pastry managed to win love among our compatriots. It is pumpkin pie that is baked in America on Halloween and Thanksgiving. When the holiday of evil spirits and otherworldly forces came to us from abroad, traditional foreign dishes also appeared on the housewives’ menu. But American pumpkin pie has gained popularity not only because of its connection to Halloween, but also because of its excellent taste.
For the test:
- butter – 200 gr.;
- flour - how much he will take;
- eggs (yolks) – 2 pcs.;
- salt;
- ice water - half a glass.
For filling:
- pumpkins – 1 kg;
- eggs – 2 pcs.;
- cream 33% – 200g;
- brown sugar - 6 tbsp;
- corn syrup - 4 tbsp. l. (replace with sugar syrup or honey if desired);
- salt – 0.5 tsp;
- spices – 1 tbsp. l. mixture of cinnamon, grated nutmeg, ground ginger, Jamaican pepper).
We will bake the pumpkin for the filling in the oven. Cut the fruit into pieces without peeling. Only seeds and loose fibers need to be removed. Place the pumpkin pieces on a baking sheet, add a little water and, covering with foil, place in the oven for an hour. Cool the finished pieces and scoop out all the pulp with a spoon. Place the pulp in a colander and leave for a while.
Prepare puff pastry. To do this, mix flour with salt and immediately add chopped margarine. Mix quickly with your hands. It will turn out to be crumbly. Add the yolks and ice water to it. Knead a homogeneous dough.
Wrap the resulting lump in film and refrigerate. The dough will spend half an hour there.
Now we form the base of the pie. Roll out the dough into a layer and transfer it to a greased pan. We make several punctures with a fork, cover with paper and put them in the cold again. This time 15 minutes will be enough.
During this time, preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Place the pan in the oven and after 10 minutes reduce the temperature to 180 degrees. After removing the paper, bake the base for another 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, prepare the pumpkin filling for the American Pie pie. Place all ingredients, including pumpkin and spices, in a blender and mix thoroughly with the immersion attachment. Pour the finished filling into the base of the pie.
The filling turns out liquid. This is the norm. At high temperatures it will bake and acquire the desired consistency. Along with the filling, the pie is baked for another 40 minutes.
It is not advisable to immediately cut an American-style pumpkin pie. You need to give it about a couple of hours to cool down.
American Pumpkin Pie
Another version of American pumpkin pie. It will also be open, beautiful and tasty.
For the test:
- flour – 1 glass;
- milk – 50 ml;
- vegetable oil – 0.5 cups;
- salt.
For filling:
- pumpkins – 1 kg;
- condensed milk – 150 gr.;
- eggs – 2 pcs.;
- vanillin;
- a pinch of ginger, nutmeg, ground cloves.
For the filling, bake the pumpkin using the technology presented in the previous recipe. After cooling, rub it through a sieve or simply beat it. To it we add the rest of the filling components in the form of eggs, condensed milk, and spices. Set the finished pie filling aside and begin preparing the dough.
Mix all ingredients with a mixer until we get an elastic mass. Place the dough in a mold, preferably round, and form sides.
There is no need to bake the base separately. Immediately pour the filling over the dough. Place the pumpkin pie in the oven, where we keep it for about 40 minutes at 200 degrees.
Once cooled, don't forget to decorate the pumpkin pie with mini ghost whipped cream.
Pumpkin pie with cottage cheese in a slow cooker
For pumpkin and cottage cheese pie you will need:
- 200 g pumpkin pulp;
- 200 g cottage cheese;
- 2 eggs;
- 180 g sugar;
- 130 g flour;
- 5 g baking powder;
- 15 ml vegetable oil.
Bakery:
- Grind the pumpkin pulp using a blender or fine grater. Squeeze out the released juice with your hands.
- Beat the eggs with sugar into a fluffy foam, add a mixture of flour and baking powder, followed by the prepared pumpkin.
- Grease the multicooker bowl with vegetable oil and transfer the dough into it. Place cottage cheese on top of it in random order.
- Cook on the Bake/Cake setting for 45-60 minutes.
Harry Potter Pumpkin Pie
This is the name given to the pie that was served in the magic school invented by the English author of famous books. Definitely, the fantastic hero himself was not standing at the stove. But the dish was very loved by Harry Potter himself and his friends. Be sure to try this unusual pumpkin pie.
We will need: For the test:
- flour - 1.5 cups;
- margarine – 200 gr.;
- sugar – 0.5 cups.
For filling:
- pumpkin pulp – 400 g;
- butter – 50 gr.;
- sugar – 75 gr.;
- eggs – 1 pc.;
- cinnamon – 1 tbsp. l.;
- nutmeg - a pinch;
- vanillin.
Place the butter in a saucepan and place the container on low heat. When the butter melts, add spices and pumpkin, which needs to be cut into cubes. Simmer the pumpkin until it becomes soft. After that, cool it and mash it simply with a fork, add one egg.
To prepare the dough, the margarine must be soft - it should be kept warm for about a couple of hours. Beat the margarine with sugar, then rub it with flour. Place the resulting dough in the cold.
We keep the dough at low temperature for about half an hour - now it will be easier to work with it.
Roll out the dough into a round layer, which will be a couple of centimeters larger than the mold. Grease the mold itself with oil and transfer the dough onto it, forming peculiar sides. Now pour all the filling over the dough and put it in the oven.
Bake the pie with pumpkin filling at 190 degrees until the filling is ready. The sides of the pie should be browned.
How to make pumpkin pie in a slow cooker
Let's talk about how to bake sugar-free pumpkin pie in a slow cooker. With the advent of this technology, the process of baking has been greatly simplified. To make the delicacy also healthy, it is recommended to use whole grain flour.
Ingredients:
- Egg – 3 pcs.
- Vegetable oil – 1 tbsp.
- Pumpkin – 380 g.
- Whole grain flour – 1 tbsp.
- Slaked soda – 1 tsp.
- Dried apricots – 50 g.
- Stevia - to taste.
How to cook:
- Grate the pumpkin. Pour boiling water over the dried apricots for 5 minutes, crumble.
- Combine beaten eggs with pumpkin, oil, soda, flour, stevia and dried apricots.
- Place parchment paper in the slow cooker and add the dough. Cook in the “Bake” option for 60 minutes.
Pie with pumpkin and cottage cheese: a simple and affordable recipe
The combination of cottage cheese and pumpkin gives an unforgettable taste. And the protein mass will give the dish an originality and a refined look to pumpkin pie with cottage cheese. For the test:
- flour – 2 – 2.5 cups;
- eggs – 1 pc.;
- sugar – 3 tbsp. spoons;
- butter – 50 gr.;
- sour cream – 100 gr.;
- baking powder – 1 sachet;
- salt.
For filling:
- pumpkin pulp – 500 gr.;
- cottage cheese – 500 gr.;
- sugar – 100 gr.;
- lemon;
- water – 2 tbsp. spoons.
For protein mass:
- proteins – 2 pcs.;
- powdered sugar – 5 tbsp. spoons
We start preparing the pie with pumpkin and cottage cheese with the dough. Beat the egg with sugar and add sour cream.
The butter for the dough needs to be frozen so that it can be grated well.
Quickly grate the butter on a coarse grater and add to the egg mixture.
Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into a separate bowl.
Combine both mixtures and knead the dough. Place the dough in the freezer. While the dough rests in the cold, make the filling. Heat water in a saucepan and squeeze lemon juice into it. Add sugar (2 tablespoons) and cook the syrup for about 3 - 4 minutes.
Now put the chopped pumpkin in a bowl and simmer until it becomes soft.
Beat the cooled pumpkin in a blender. Separately, mix the cottage cheese with the remaining sugar and grind through a sieve.
You can blend the cottage cheese with a blender, but in this case the mass will not be as airy.
Combine pumpkin and curd mass. Take the dough out of the cold and roll it out into a layer. Transfer to a greased mold and form a side directly into the mold. To prevent the base of the pie from becoming deformed during baking, cover it with paper and sprinkle with peas. Bake the base like this for about 20 minutes. Now you can remove the paper and bake a little more until browned.
Place all the pumpkin-curd filling on the base. Place it in the oven again, where it will spend another half hour.
It's time to decorate the pie. Beat the whites with powdered sugar and immediately place them on the still hot pie. We send our dish back to the oven. This time we will bake for about 40 minutes. The egg white meringue will have a pleasant creamy hue.
Let the pumpkin pie cool. Additionally, it can be placed in the cold for a couple of hours.
Pumpkin Almond Pie
To prepare this pastry you will need a sweet pumpkin with dense pulp. You can bake the vegetable in the oven or slow cooker.
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin – 1.4 kg.
- Rice flour – 1 tbsp.
- Starch – 2.5 tbsp.
- Olive oil – 60 ml.
- Chicken egg – 1 pc.
- Almonds – 90 g.
- Cinnamon - to taste.
- Lemon zest - to taste.
Preparation:
- Bake the pumpkin in the oven, grind it into puree.
- In a blender, puree almonds with zest and cinnamon.
- Mix the ingredients, add 1 tbsp. starch.
- In a bowl, combine flour, butter, starch and egg. Knead the dough and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Roll out into a layer, place in a mold, bake for 12 minutes. Add pumpkin filling and cook for 25 minutes. Eat after it has cooled completely.
Pumpkin Pie with Pecans and Cinnamon
Pumpkin goes well with many foods and spices. Its spicy sweet taste is perfectly complemented by nutty notes. Therefore, feel free to add walnuts to the filling, remembering to lightly chop them before doing so.
For the test:
- flour – 180 gr.;
- sugar – 1 tbsp. spoon;
- cold water - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- butter – 100 g;
- salt to taste.
For filling:
- pumpkins – 700 gr. pulp;
- chicken eggs – 3 pcs.;
- cream – 125 ml;
- granulated sugar – 100 gr.;
- cinnamon, ginger, cloves - 1 teaspoon each;
- salt.
For dusting – walnuts – 50 g.
Sift the flour into a separate container. Add salt and sugar. Pre-freeze the butter in the freezer. Directly when preparing the dough, quickly grate the butter or chop it with a knife so that it does not have time to melt from the warmth of your hands. Mix the resulting crumbs with the flour mixture, rubbing with your hands.
Add chilled water and knead the dough. To make it elastic and pliable, place it in the cold for half an hour.
Meanwhile, prepare the pumpkin pie filling. Cut the pumpkin into large pieces and boil by adding a little water. When the vegetable becomes soft, remove the pieces and let them cool. Mash the pumpkin into a puree and immediately add the spices. Separately, beat the cream with the eggs and add the mixture to the pumpkin puree.
When the filling is ready, we begin to form the pie itself. Grease the pan where we will bake the cake with butter and sprinkle with flour. We lay out all the dough and form the base, at the same time making small sides. Immediately add the filling and place the dish in the oven. It will be baked at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes.
Remove the finished pumpkin pie from the oven, let cool and sprinkle chopped nuts on top.
Cooking steps
Grind the pumpkin in a blender.
Turn oatmeal into flour in a coffee grinder.
Add ground oatmeal, kefir, egg, vegetable oil, walnuts, honey, vanillin to the chopped pumpkin and grind everything thoroughly with a blender.
The dough for diet pumpkin pie should have the consistency of sour cream.
Place the dough in a greased form. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Bake our diet pumpkin pie for 30-40 minutes. If desired, you can decorate the pie, and then serve it and enjoy its wonderful taste.
Bon appetit!
How to cook pumpkin pie in a slow cooker
- Grind the pumpkin in a blender until pureed.
- In a bowl, mix flour, sugar, vanillin and baking powder.
- Then add eggs, sunflower oil and pumpkin puree.
- Mix all ingredients and knead the dough.
- Grease the multicooker bowl with oil.
- Pour the dough into the bowl.
- Bake on the “Baking” setting for 60 minutes.
- Pumpkin - 170 gr.
- Sugar - 1 tbsp.
- Flour - 1.5 tbsp.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Sunflower oil - 3 tbsp.
- Baking powder - 1 tbsp.
- Vanillin - 1 gr.
Pumpkin and apple pie: a simple recipe
Apple sourness will be appropriate if you decide to make a pumpkin pie. Moreover, the pumpkin season coincides with the ripening time of the most fragrant autumn apples.
For the dough: Shortcrust pastry prepared according to the Harry Potter Pumpkin Pie recipe.
For filling:
- pumpkins – 350 gr. pulp;
- apples – 250 gr.;
- chicken eggs – 2 pcs.;
- cream – 150 ml;
- sugar – 4 tablespoons;
- spices – ½ tsp. (cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg).
We prepare the base according to our favorite shortcrust pastry recipe. You can use any recipe presented above.
The secret of this pumpkin apple pie is its unusual filling.
We start making the filling itself by cutting the pumpkin and apples into slices. Place these ingredients in a container and simmer with water (1/3 cup will be enough). Having received soft pieces, drain the liquid and mash the apples and pumpkin until pureed. We also add eggs, spices and sugar with cream. Mix everything thoroughly.
There is no need to bake the base of the pie separately. After placing the dough on a round baking sheet and forming the sides, immediately lay out all the filling. We will also bake this version of pumpkin pie for about 40 minutes. Check readiness with a match.
Once the pumpkin apple pie has cooled, decorate it with powdered sugar.
Pumpkin pie with semolina and kefir
This unusual treat is prepared completely without flour. And lemon notes give it freshness. Try making a pie according to this recipe, and you will be surprised how similar a pumpkin pie with semolina and kefir is to oriental sweets.
We will need:
- pumpkins - 2 cups;
- kefir – 250 ml;
- semolina - 1.5 cups;
- sugar – 1.5 cups;
- baking powder - 1.5 tsp;
- lemon – 1 pc.;
- water – 0.5 cups;
- coconut flakes – 20 gr.;
- walnuts – 0.5 cups.
In one container, combine the pumpkin, grated on a coarse grater, with sugar and lemon zest.
After mixing, pour the mixture with kefir and mix thoroughly again.
Separately, mix all the semolina with baking powder and immediately pour it into the pumpkin-kefir mixture.
Line the mold with paper and pour in the dough.
There is no need to wait for the semolina to disperse.
Immediately place the pie in the oven, which will have to be preheated to 180 degrees.
The manna is baked for at least 45 minutes.
While the pie is baking, prepare the filling for it. The syrup is made from water, sugar and lemon juice. Boil it until the sugar is completely dissolved, which will take about 3 minutes.
When the manna is baked, fill it with syrup. There is no need to remove the semolina pie from the mold. After the syrup is completely absorbed, sprinkle the manna with nuts and coconut flakes.
Let the manna cool right in the mold. Now it can be cut into pieces and served.
With semolina
Delicate pumpkin pie with semolina is prepared from the following set of products:
- 200 ml pumpkin puree;
- 2 eggs;
- 180 g sugar;
- 14 g baking powder;
- 60 ml vegetable oil;
- 70 g flour;
- 70 g semolina;
- raisins, nuts and spices to taste.
Progress:
- Mix pumpkin puree with semolina and forget about it for 20-30 minutes. Semolina will perfectly absorb excess liquid in the puree and the dough will not be too wet.
- Beat eggs with sugar until light in color with a mixer. Add puree with semolina and vegetable oil to the resulting fluffy mass, mix thoroughly with a spoon.
- Next, sift baking powder and flour into the dough. If desired, you can put raisins and crushed nuts in the pie, and spices - cinnamon, vanilla, cardamom, almonds.
- We bake the dessert in a greased multicooker bowl using the “Baking” function. Depending on the power of the gadget, the pie will be ready within 40-60 minutes. Before serving, you can decorate it with powdered sugar.
