Ingredients

  • To make the dough:
  • 500 grams flour (a bit more) (17.6 ounces)
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 250 grams cold butter with some extra butter to butter your tin (8.8 ounces)
  • 250 ml cold water (1 cup)
  • 1 egg
  • To make the filling:
  • 800 grams of pumpkin cubes (28.2 ounces)
  • 1 red onion
  • 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
  • 90 grams pistachios (3.2 ounces)
  • 50 grams Parmesan cheese (1.8 ounces)
  • 30 grams basil (1 ounce)
  • 3 – 4 tablespoons olive oil extra virgin
  • Butter (to butter the tin)
  • Pepper and salt
  • Extra: cling film, quiche tin 24 cm (9.4 inches), rolling pin, baking dish, food processor

This gastronomic piece of art will take some time to prepare, but it is 100% worth the effort. Think about a crispy homemade dough, a soft filling with homemade pesto of pistachios, cooking up an exciting meal and serving a once-in-a-lifetime and mesmerizing masterpiece. Both vegetarians and meat lovers (you can easily serve a piece of meat as a side dish) will be wondering what secret ingredients you use to make this dish so delicious.  

The dough for this pie is homemade. Pretty easy to make… just combine butter, flour, water and salt…eazy peazy, isn’t it, The only additional ingredient you need is patience. You should not knead the dough too much and it should rest in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.  

Our pesto of pistachios is another super-easy and homemade part of this dish. And yes, the pesto will be rather dry but with a reason, otherwise your pumpkin pie’s filling will float away. Your most important partner in pumpkin pie crime is your oven: first because it will roast the pumpkin and onion and next it will bake the pie. It has never been so easy to get a showstopper on your Christmas table!

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Preparation

  • Start by making the dough. This can also be done a (half) day in advance. First put the flour and salt in a bowl. Add the cold butter in cubes and squeeze the butter into the flour until you get a kind of wet sand. Make sure the butter does not get too hot.
  • Then add the cold water (preferably water that has been in the fridge for a while). Mix with a ladle, a fork or your hands to a smooth dough. Then sprinkle some flour on your kitchen work surface, place the dough on your work surface and knead it with your hands. Don't knead too much. Shape the dough into a square and wrap in cling film. Place the dough in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
  • Preheat the oven at 220 degrees Celsius (428 degrees Fahrenheit).
  • Cut the onion into quarters. Mix the onion in a baking dish with the pumpkin cubes and the 2 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar. Mix well, season the vegetables with salt and pepper and then put the baking dish in the oven. Roast the pumpkin for 10 minutes. Then let it cool, leave the oven on.
  • Briefly roast the pistachios in a dry frying pan. Then put the pistachios in the food processor along with the Parmesan cheese, basil and olive oil. Process until you have a firm, quite dry pesto. Taste the pesto and season with salt and pepper if necessary.
  • Mix the pesto with the pumpkin cubes. Season the vegetable mix with additional salt and pepper if necessary.
  • Butter your quiche tin.
  • Remove the dough from the cling film and sprinkle some flour on your work surface. Divide the dough into 2 pieces. Roll out 1 piece of dough with the rolling pin until it is about an inch thick and larger than your quiche tin. Carefully put the dough in the quiche tin and let it hang over the edge. Gently press the bottom and the edges. 
  • Put the pumpkin filling in the quiche tin and spread evenly over the tin.
  • Now roll out the 2nd piece of dough, also to half a centimetre. Carefully place it on the quiche tin and press the edges of the dough on the edges of the tin. Then cut off the excess dough with a knife. You can use this excess dough to make decorative pieces which you can use to decorate the pie by sticking it on the pie.
  • Cut a cross in the top of the quiche with a knife which will allow any steam to escape.
  • Beat the egg and brush it on the pumpkin pie. Then bake the pie in the middle of the oven for 40 – 50 minutes. Cover the top with aluminium foil (if it gets too brown) to keep your crust from overbaking. Serve warm or let it cool and serve cold.

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