Sweet Spiced Kumara Pie

The New Zealand version of the American Pumpkin Pie. 

 I ran out of baking paper so the pastry couldn't be blind baked. So it spent way to long in the oven to avoid a soggy bottom, hence the black edges so annoying. 
Despite being cooked to shit the texture of the filling was stunning. So much so I'm not even sure the pastry is necessary. The vanilla cream is however, not optional. 

Recipe: 

Pie.

3 large orange kumara 

1/2 cup maple syrup

1/2 cup white spelt flour

1 tsp nutmeg

1 tbsp cinnamon 

1 tsp allspice

1 tsp orange peel powder

2 eggs 

sweet pastry 

Cream.

1/2 cup cream

seeds of 1/2 vanilla pod

tbsp of icing sugar

Preheat oven to 180 degrees. 

Bake kumara in their skins until collapsing, when cool enough to handle scoop out the flesh and mix with remaining filling ingredients.  

Blind bake pastry in a pie dish, until golden. 

Remove from the oven and fill with the kumara mix and place back into the oven until it is firm and golden on top. 
Put aside while you make your cream.

Add cream to a clean bowl and whisk until soft peaks form, then add remaining ingredients and continue to whip until stiff peaks form. 

Put it all together on the plate. 

Drizzle with maple syrup if you wanna. 

You wanna. 

x

Abbey