Hi guys. Welcome to AZCookbook. I am Feride. Today we're making pumpkin pie and
we are making it from scratch. It's actually easier than you think it is and
you will get excellent results with my step-by-step instructions. Let's get
started. These are the ingredients for the pie crust - I have 2 and 3/4 of a cup
of all-purpose flour , 1 tablespoon granulated sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of salt,
1 cup which equals 8 ounces cold very cold butter that I cut into chunks, and I
have 7 tablespoons of ice-cold water. For the pie filling I have 3 eggs, 2 cups of
pumpkin puree - this is homemade pumpkin puree and I showed you how to make it in
one of my previous episodes, please check it out. I have 1/2 cup of
granulated sugar and a quarter cup of brown sugar, 1 cup heavy cream and for
the spices I'm using 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon of ginger powder,
1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg, 1/4 teaspoon of salt and I also have 1
teaspoon of vanilla extract. Let's start with the dough. I have the flour in the
bowl and to it I adding the sugar and salt,
toss them together, I'll add the butter and at this point you can use either your
pastry blender or your hands, this is a pastry blender, you can cut in the butter
using it or use your hands like I do. Just rub the butter in between your
fingertips to incorporate it into the flour and do this process until you have
pieces that range from coarse crumbs to the size of small piece. At this point
I'm going to add my ice cold water to the dough. I'm gonna drizzle it like this,
7 tablespoons in total. I'm going to mix this mixture until the dough holds
together when pinched. All right, this is what we're looking for.
I'm going to test it and pinch it like this, it holds together
which means it's ready. At this point the mixture should have a crumbly texture,
it should not be sticky. I'm transferring the dough onto my work surface. I'll
knead it a few times until all the pieces come together.
I cut the dough in two parts and I patted each into a circle. I'm going to
wrap each circle in plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for
at least 1 hour. You may ask why we have two pieces of dough here.
One is going to be our pie crust and the other piece is going to go on top.
I'm going to create decorated leaves to go on top of our baked pie, but this is
optional. If you don't want to have any decoration on your pie just skip that
part, make half of this dough recipe or just make the whole thing and freeze the
other part for later use. I've removed one of the dough circle circles from the
refrigerator. It chilled there for about 1 hour and I let it sit at room
temperature for 10 minutes because it was a little bit hard, so it softened a
little bit, it will make it easier to roll it out. Now I'm going to sprinkle my
surface lightly with some flour and I'm also going to dust my rolling piece with
the flour so that the dough doesn't stick to it and I will start to roll out
the dough from the center towards the edges into a circle 12 inches wide and
I will rotate it from time to time. Go from the center towards the edges like
this. You will see little specks of butter in the dough and this is normal,
this is what will make our pie crust flaky. I rolled up my dough into it 12
inch circle and I'm going to transfer it onto my 9-inch pie pan. Press onto the
dough, make sure that it sticks to the pan. And
you will see some overhanging dough around the edges, just tuck it inside
like this, I'm going to create a fluted edge on our pie like this. My pie crust
is nicely decorated now around the edges. I'm going to cover it with plastic wrap
and send it in the freezer for 30 minutes before I prebake it. While our
pie crust is resting in the freezer, let's make our decorative leaves. So I
took the second circle of dough from the refrigerator and I'm going to roll it
out into a very thin disc. I rolled out the dough into a thin disc, now if you
have a cookie cutter shaped like the leaf, cut out leaf shapes from this dough.
If you don't have a good cookie cutter create leaves like me. This is my
sample. I'm going to try to create a leaf like that with a spoon. I'm going to use
it to cut them out. So let's see. I go this way, now let's go this way.
Pinch. Create the middle.
And then the veins around. Like this. Here's our first leaf. Not bad, right?
My leaf cutouts are ready. I put them on a parchment lined baking pan. I'm
going to bake these cutouts in the oven preheated to 400 degrees Fahrenheit
for about 15 minutes until they're nice and golden. Our cutout leaves are ready.
Take a closer look at them. We really didn't need a cookie cutter to create
them, right? They are nice and golden and they're going to cool inside. I removed
our pie crust from the freezer where it stayed for 30 minutes and now I'm ready
to pre-bake. The reason why I'm prebaking baking this crust is because once the
pie is completely ready and baked, the crust will be flakier and it won't be
doughy and soggy and that's exactly what I want to achieve. So let's do it.
I have my frozen pie shell here and I have a piece of parchment paper that I'm
going to crinkle. I'm going to put this parchment paper on the pie shell and
I'm going to fill it up with baking beans.
I'm using a mixture of different kinds of beans but you can use uncooked rice
as well. The goal is to keep the crust from puffing up while baking, so this is
going to help us. My goal is just to get the dough set but not golden.
I am going to put this into oven preheated to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and prebake this
pie crust for 15 minutes and I'll show you how it looks when it's ready. I baked
my pie crust in the 400 degrees oven for 15 minutes until the bottom has set
nicely, it's not doughy anymore, it's not soggy and the edges are nice and crisp, I
did not want to brown the edges because the pie is going to bake with a failing
for a long time and that's when the edges will get golden brown, I'm going to
put it aside to cool completely while I prepare our pie filling, I'm starting by
breaking the eggs into the bowl.
I'll give the eggs a very light whisk. To this I'm adding my white sugar, brown sugar, give it a whisk. In goes the pumpkin puree, heavy cream, cinnamon,
ginger, vanilla extract, nutmeg, and all I'm going to do is I'm going to stir these ingredients
together until nice and creamy. Our pre baked pie crust is now cool and I'm
going to pour the pumpkin filling inside. I'm going to bake this in the oven
preheated to 350 degrees Fahrenheit for exactly one hour until the edges of the
filling are set and the center is just a little bit jiggly but set as well,
and the edges are going to get golden as well. It baked beautifully and I already
cooled it down completely after I removed it from the open but when it was
just baked, the edges were set about two inches in towards the center and the
center was just a little bit jiggly when I shook the pie dish, but as it cooled
down it continued to bake and set even more. It's ready to decorate now and
we have our beautiful leaves ready. I'm going to just put them around the edges.
We decorated our pie and it looks absolutely delicious and beautiful and
I'm going to try it soon. I have a slice of my pumpkin pie for myself and take a
closer look at the texture you guys, it's nice and creamy, very good. I chilled my pie before I sliced it so it set even more and the shell
baked nicely, it's nice and golden, take care not to overbake it, if you see that
the edges of the shell are getting brown too quickly just cover them with
foil while baking. I'm ready to try it. It is very delicious you guys.
Ilove that we use ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg in the filling but you can use
allspice as well, some cloves, ground, they will add nice flavor too, but
I just thought that these three ingredients were good enough. Get the
detailed recipe on my blog AZCookbook.com. If you make this pie
let me know in the comments down below and also use hashtag #azcookbook to share your
pictures on your social media. I would love to see them. Thank you so much for
watching me. Please don't forget to subscribe to my channel and share it
with your friends. I'll see you soon! Happy holidays! Bye!
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