It’s Thanksgiving and while I’m not American I do like the idea of getting together with your loved ones and sharing what you are grateful at least one day a year.
With this in mind I decided to make one of my favourite desserts, pecan pie.
If you use ready made pastry this is fairly quick to assemble giving you time to get on with other things.
Serves 8-10
Ingredients
1 Sheet of ready made/ready rolled pastry
100 Grams Dark brown sugar
170 mil Condensed milk
1 Tbsp Maple or golden syrup
2 Eggs
150 Grams Pecan nuts
Method
- Grease a 9 in pie dish. Preferably one with a removable bottom. I think metal dishes work best but use what you have. Preheat your oven to 200 degrees (Celsius)
- Line the pie dish with the ready rolled pastry, make sure its pressed well into the corners. Cover the pastry wth baking parchment and cover with baking beans or just use old dried rice like I do, and bake for 10 minutes.
- Carefully lift the baking parchment and baking beans out of the pastry shell and bake for another 10 minutes before removing from the oven
- Reduce the oven heat to 170 degrees
- Add all the remaining ingredients (except the nuts) to a large bowl and whisk until well combined.
- Pour the mix into the pastry case and top with nuts. Bake for 50 minutes and allow to cool before cutting
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