Pumpkin pie is tasty and healthy.

Pumpkin is the largest vegetable that grows in our garden. It is great for those who watch their shape and want to eat right, getting all the necessary vitamins. This vegetable is very rich in vitamins B, C, carotene, fiber and minerals.

In its raw form, the pumpkin has almost no taste, but after cooking it becomes sweet. With her prepare various soups, cold and hot snacks, desserts and vitamin drinks.

And I want to offer you, try to make a pumpkin pie. The dish turns out very beautiful, tasty and, most importantly, useful. For a pie, it is better to choose a small vegetable with a thick flesh. Before cooking it can be baked or used canned. To make the filling more fragrant, add your favorite spices. Pie dough is suitable for anyone. Try different options and choose according to your taste.

Pumpkin pie with cottage cheese

For cooking, we need:

For the dough: half a glass of sifted flour, a packet of butter, five spoonfuls of sugar, an egg, a little water.

For the filling: half a kilogram of fresh pumpkin, a glass of sugar, one lemon, five eggs, two tablespoons of starch, a glass of black currant berries, two tablespoons of powdered sugar, a small packet of vanillin, 750 grams of cottage cheese, lemon peel.

Preparation

From the prepared products we knead short pastry, cover with food film and put it away in the cold.

While the dough cools, turn to pumpkin. Vegetable me, peel and cut the flesh with medium cubes, boil them for about fifteen minutes. In the water where the pumpkin is brewed, add two spoons of sugar and squeeze out the juice from the lemon. The finished vegetable is mashed until it is mashed and left to cool.

Roll out the short pastry and put it in a greased form, slightly lifting the edges. Cover the dough with parchment paper and bake at high temperature for fifteen minutes.

Now we are preparing the filling. Take the cottage cheese, add the zest, yolks, sugar, starch and lemon juice. Proteins whisk separately whilst forming an airy foam and add it to the cottage cheese. We also lay out pumpkin puree here.

The currant is well washed, letting water drain, drying and evenly spreading on the baked cake. We spread the cottage cheese-pumpkin mass from above and put it in the oven for forty minutes.

Before removing it from the mold, allow it to cool. Then sprinkle the pumpkin pie with powdered sugar, cut into pieces and serve it to the table. Believe me, it's very tasty!

American Pumpkin Pie

This is a traditional dish, which is prepared in the US on Thanksgiving Day.

We need:

For the dough: a half cup of flour, salt, half a glass of soft butter, one yolk.

For the filling: a pumpkin weighing about a kilogram, two eggs, six tablespoons of sugar, a glass of cream, four spoons of sweet syrup, salt, a spoon of spices and powdered sugar.

Preparation

In the flour add salt, butter and grind until crumbs are obtained. Then drive in the yolk, add a spoonful of ice water and knead the dough. From the finished dough form the ball and put it away for half an hour in the refrigerator.

In the meantime, we are preparing the filling. Pumpkin is cleaned, cut into cubes, put into a saucepan, add water and cook until soft. After we knead it with a fork and spread it into a sieve to make the glass water.

The dough is rolled out, put into a mold with a removable bottom, pierced with a fork and cover with oiled paper. Bake for ten minutes at 200 degrees. Then we remove the paper and put it in the oven for another five minutes.

Spread out the pumpkin puree. Then rub the eggs with sugar, add syrup, cream, spices, salt, mix everything and put it into shape too.
We put the pumpkin pie on for forty minutes. Sprinkle with cooked powder.

Pumpkin cake

Ingredients: three and a half glasses of flour, a spoonful of salt, three spoons of baking powder, a spoon of vegetable oil, four eggs, two glasses of pumpkin puree, cinnamon, two glasses of sugar.

Preparation

In the flour pour baking powder, salt and spices. In a separate cup, whisk eggs, sugar, butter, lay out the pumpkin and add everything to the flour. We mix everything thoroughly and bake in the mul'tivarke. Readiness can be checked with a toothpick.

Bon Appetit!