Sweet Potato Pecan Pie Recipe
Sweet Potato Pecan Pie Recipe
Author: Cynthia Lee
Nutrition Information
- Serves: 6
- Calories: 772
- Fat: 53.3 g
- Carbohydrates: 66.7 g
- Sodium: 383 mg
- Fiber: 4.1 g
- Protein: 9.1 g
- Cholesterol: 151 mg
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
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Sweet Potato Pecan Pie is a traditional American dish, which is a common serving during the holiday seasons, especially Thanksgiving. The pie bake can be cooked with an open shell or a crust depending upon taste and its filling, mainly consisting of potato, milk, sugar and eggs can be altered with to give different flavours.
Ingredients
- For the sweet pastry:
- Plain flour – 300 g
- Salted butter – 150 g
- Icing sugar – 120 g
- Egg yolks – 3
- Whole milk – 1 tbsp
- Pecans – 100 g
- For the filling:
- Sweet potatoes – 1 kg
- Caster sugar – 170 g
- Ground cinnamon – 1 ½ tsp
- Nutmeg – 1
- Eggs – 3
- Condensed milk – 6 tbsp
- Vanilla extract – ¾ tsp
- Melted butter – 30 g
- Pecans – 300 g
Instructions
- The first step is to mix the flour, butter and icing sugar. Egg yolks are then added and milk is used to give the dough a proper shape.
- The dough is then wrapped and after refrigerating it for 10 minutes, it is put into the fridge for 15-20 minutes.
- The oven is switched on and preheated at 375 degrees F or 170 degree C.
- After cooling the dough, the pastry is spread over a tin die, preferably of 9 inches, and the chopped pecans are pressed into the base.
- The base is then pricked with a fork and kept in the fridge for 20 more minutes.
- In the meanwhile, the icing for the pie is prepared by roughly mashing the sweet potatoes and mixing them with sugar, eggs, spices, condensed milk, vanilla and butter.
- The batter is thoroughly mixed.
- The filling is poured over the dough and the pecans halves are arranged on the top.
- The filling is poured over the dough and the pecans halves are arranged on the top.
- It is allowed to cool for 10 minutes before removing it from the tin mould and after cooling it at room temperature, it can be refrigerated.
