Classic American pumpkin pie with condensed milk and cinnamon

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make pumpkin pie? Prepare the products. Weigh the pumpkin before cooking, its weight should be 800-850 grams, it is from this amount that 300 grams of mashed potatoes will be obtained. Put the butter in the freezer before cooking, it should be strongly cooled and firm so that it is easy to grate. Take natural condensed milk, without vegetable fats.

2. Step 2:

   

   It is necessary to prepare pumpkin puree in advance. To do this, we will bake it. Cut the pumpkin into small pieces and cut off the skin. Be careful, it's very hard, don't cut yourself. That is why it is better to cut it into pieces.

3. Step 3:

   

   Cut the resulting pieces into small pieces.

4. Step 4:

   

   Fold the pumpkin pieces into a baking dish. Bake the pumpkin for about 45 minutes in the oven at 180 ° C (focus on your oven).

5. Step 5:

   

   It should become soft, the pieces will be easily pierced with a knife. Cool the finished pumpkin.

6. Step 6:

   

   While the pumpkin is cooling, prepare the dough. Pour the flour into a large bowl. Grate cold butter on a grater. To make it easier to do, roll a piece of butter in flour.

7. Step 7:

   

   With your hands, grind the flour and butter to the state of crumbs. Do this quickly so that the oil does not have time to melt from the heat of your hands. Why is this important? Because it is the pieces of butter mixed with flour that, having melted in the oven, will make the dough layered and crispy.

8. Step 8:

   

   Then pour ice water mixed with lemon juice into the crumb. Quickly knead the dough, gathering it into a ball. Wrap the dough in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.

9. Step 9:

   

   Punch the cooled pumpkin with an immersion blender to a puree state. If you don't have a blender, then mash it with a pusher.

11. Step 10:

    

    Add condensed milk, eggs and spices to the pumpkin. In America, they sell special mixtures for pumpkin pie, in addition to cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg, it also includes ground cloves and allspice.

12. Step 11:

    

    Mix all the ingredients with a whisk until smooth. The filling is ready.

13. Step 12:

    

    Place the cooled dough between two sheets of parchment. Roll it out with a rolling pin to a thickness of about 2 mm. It is very convenient to do this between the paper, so it will not stick to the rolling pin. Make the circle size 4 cm larger than the diameter of the mold. My form is 22 cm in size .

14. Step 13:

    

    To make the pie look neat, I cut the dough on a plate. I used the trimmings to decorate the cake.

15. Step 14:

    

    Put the dough into the mold, carefully distributing it along the bottom and sides. Prick the dough with a fork over the entire surface so that it does not swell when baking.

16. Step 15:

    

    Bake the dough in the oven at 180 ° C for about 15 minutes (focus on your oven). Then take out the form with the dough and cool it slightly.

17. Step 16:

    

    Pour the filling onto the cake.

18. Step 17:

    

    Return the pie to the oven and bake it until cooked. It took me 40 minutes. The filling should become dense, and the edges of the dough should be gilded. Cool the pie and serve it to the table. If desired, you can decorate the top with pieces of dough left over from cutting the cake. They need to be molded, rolled, sliced and baked, smeared with egg on top.