Thanksgiving Recipes
Pumpkin Black Walnut Pie
Give your pumpkin pie a touch of sophistication with the addition of toasted black walnuts.
Ingredients
- 1 (9 inch) refrigerated pie dough disc
- 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
- 1 1/2 cups pumpkin puree
- 1 1/2 cups Half-and-Half
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground mace
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 2/3 cup black walnuts, coarsely chopped, toasted, divided
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Press crust into pie pan and prick bottom several times with a fork.
- Bake pastry shell until very lightly browned, about 7 minutes.
- In mixing bowl, beat together remaining ingredients (except black walnuts) until smooth.
- Stir in 1/3 cup black walnuts.
- Pour mixture into cooled pastry shell and sprinkle remaining black walnuts over filling.
- Bake until filling has set and knife inserted into center comes out clean, about 40 minutes.
- Cool on wire rack.
Attribution
Recipe and photo used with permission from:
Hammons Products Company