Rustic Sweet Potato Pie
Rustic Sweet Potato Pie

Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, rustic sweet potato pie. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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I was in the mood for a very rustic little pie, made with caramelized sweet potatoes and apples as the main ingredient. And since I find chestnuts go so well with sweet potatoes, I decided to add some of that too! For this lovely pie, sweet potatoes are boiled, peeled and mashed together with butter, sugar, milk and eggs, then seasoned with nutmeg, cinnamon and This is the absolute BEST recipe for a Sweet Potato Pie!

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook rustic sweet potato pie using 17 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Rustic Sweet Potato Pie:
  1. Get 2 medium sweet potatoes (650-700 g or 1 1/2 lbs raw. It's 2 cups/450-500 g after mashing)
  2. Prepare 1/2 cup (90 g) sugar
  3. Make ready 1/2 cup yoghurt (120 ml)
  4. Get 1 tsp vanilla extract or oil
  5. Make ready 1 Tbsp lemon juice
  6. Get 1 tsp lemon zest (optional)
  7. Take 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  8. Get 3-4 dashes ground cloves
  9. Get 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
  10. Prepare 2 eggs
  11. Make ready ********
  12. Get 1 unbaked pie crust or make your own with the ingredients below:
  13. Get 150 g flour
  14. Get 100 g butter
  15. Get 50 g (50 ml) ice water
  16. Take 1 pinch salt (not needed if using salted butter)
  17. Make ready 1 tsp sugar

While most dessert pack empty calories, this dessert is made with healthy sweet potatoes, which are If you've never baked a sweet potato dessert, you're missing out! I love baking this sweet potato pie recipe during the holidays. Sweet potato pie is pumpkin pie's first cousin—like good cousins, they're best friends, practically identical twins, but with just enough differences in flavor and texture to tell them apart. Sweet potatoes are sweeter than pumpkins, and though the pies are usually made in the same way with eggs.

Steps to make Rustic Sweet Potato Pie:
  1. For the homemade pie dough (if you have one already start on Step 4): Put flour and salt (leave out if using salted butter) into a large bowl. Cut butter into small cubes and add to flour. You can see more detailed recipe for pie dough in my recipe here: https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/198326
  2. Rub in the butter into the flour until butter is broken up into pea-sized pieces and mixed throughout.
  3. Mix in sugar and gradually mix in the cold water until the dough begins to come together. Knead into a ball. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate for at least one hour.
  4. To roast potatoes (you can boil too, though I think the taste is nicer if roasted): Preheat oven to 200C/400F. Peel and cut sweet potatoes into cubes. Drizzle with 2 Tbsp vegetable/canola oil.
  5. Bake for 40 minutes (turn and mix halfway through so it baked evenly) or until fork tender.
  6. Mash with a fork. (After mashing I used 2 cups or 450-500 g)
  7. Add sugar, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, lemon juice and vanilla.
  8. Mix in yoghurt. Taste again just in case and adjust any seasoning or sweetness. Lastly, mix in the eggs until smooth.
  9. Preheat oven to 350°F/180°C. Roll out pie dough if using homemade one. (Again, see details in my basic pie dough recipe here: https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/198326)
  10. When ready to bake, fill the pie crust with the filling.Smooth out - add some pie crust decorations if you like :)
  11. Bake for about 1 hour until set. Let cool completely before enjoying.

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