Sweet Potato Pie

Name: Sweet Potato Pie
Prep time: 2 h 30 min
Cook time: 2 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 30 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 8 Tbsps cold unsalted butter, diced (1 stick); 59 milliliters light corn syrup; 1 large egg white; 1 large egg yolk; 2 larges eggs; 296 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 1 pinch Pinch ground cloves; 0 teaspoons ground ginger; 118 milliliters heavy cream; 118 milliliters light brown sugar; 0 teaspoons freshly grated nutmeg; 1 teaspoons finely grated orange zest; 237 milliliters pecan pieces; 1 teaspoons fine salt; 59 milliliters non-hydrogenated shortening; 2 Tbsps sugar; 3 Tbsps sugar; 680 grams medium sweet potatoes (about; 4 Tbsps unsalted butter; 1 Tbsp pure vanilla extract; 237 milliliters whipping cream; 1 Tbsp whiskey, rye or bourbon; 1 Tbsp cider or white wine vinegar

Sweet Potato Pie might be just the Southern recipe you are searching for. This recipe serves 8. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 747 calories, 8g of protein, and 52g of fat per serving. If you have pecan pieces, ground cinnamon, vanillan extract, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Instructions

Special equipment: 9-inch pie plate, glass preferred

Filling: Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.

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Oven

Put the sweet potatoes on a small roasting pan and bake until easily pierced with a fork, about 40 minutes.

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Sweet Potato

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Roasting Pan

Oven

Meanwhile make the dough: Pulse the flour, sugar, and salt in a food processor with the metal blade until combined.

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Dough

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

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Food Processor

Add the shortening and pulse about 10 times.

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Shortening

Add the butter and continue to pulse until it resembles cornmeal mixed with bean-size bits of butter. Beat the egg yolk and vinegar together, add and pulse 3 to 4 times, but don't let the dough form a ball in the machine.

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Cornmeal

Egg Yolk

Vinegar

Butter

Dough

Remove the blade, and gather the dough together by hand. If dough does not come together, sprinkle up to 1 tablespoon of ice cold water over the dough and bring together. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and shape into disk. Refrigerate at least 1 hour or up to 2 days. (To make the dough by hand, see below.)

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Dough

Water

Wrap

Ice

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Plastic Wrap

Peel the cooked sweet potatoes and mash lightly with a fork; you should have about 2 cups puree.

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Sweet Potato

Mix the sweet potatoes and butter in the food processor until smooth.

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Sweet Potato

Butter

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Food Processor

Add the remaining ingredients and pulse to combine. Set aside.

Lightly dust the counter with flour.

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All Purpose Flour

Roll the dough into an 11 to 12-inch circle and transfer to the pie pan. Trim the dough so that the edges hang about 1/2 inch over the pan; fold edges under and flute as desired. (See how to). Pierce the crust all over with a fork, and refrigerate for at least 20 minutes or up to a day.

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Crust

Dough

Roll

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Pie Form

Frying Pan

Position a rack in the lower third of the oven of the 425 degree F oven. Line the crust with foil or parchment paper and pie weights or dried beans and place on a baking sheet.

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Dried Beans

Crust

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Baking Sheet

Aluminum Foil

Oven

Bake until the crust sets and begins to brown around edges, about 25 minutes. Lift foil and weights out of crust, lower oven temperature to 375 degrees F. and continue to bake until crust begins to brown on the bottom, about 10 to 12 minutes more.

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Crust

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Oven

Aluminum Foil

Pour filling into the warm crust and bake until set, about 20 minutes.

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Crust

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Oven

Remove from the oven and cool on rack

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Oven

When ready to serve, whip the cream with the whiskey until it holds soft peaks. Top pie with whipped cream and candied pecans.

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Candied Pecans

Whipped Cream

Whiskey

Cream

Serve.

Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly beat the egg white until frothy.

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Egg Whites

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Whisk in the sugar and cinnamon, and then toss pecans in the mixture. Evenly spread nuts on a parchment-lined baking sheet.

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Cinnamon

Pecans

Spread

Sugar

Nuts

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Baking Sheet

Whisk

Bake until dry and toasted, about 10 to 15 minutes. Cool.

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