Sweet Potato Pie
Recipe type: Dessert
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Serves: 6-8 people
 
Ingredients
For the crust:
  • 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
  • 1½ teaspoons granulated sugar
  • ½ teaspoon Kosher salt
  • ½ cup unsalted butter, chilled, cut into small cubes
  • 1½ tablespoons ice water
  • 1½ teaspoons apple cider vinegar
For the filling:
  • 3-4 medium sized sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 inch rounds
  • Olive oil
  • ¼ cup granulated sugar
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon ground ginger
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup heavy whipping cream
  • ½ cup whole milk
Instructions
To make the crust:
  1. In a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, and salt. Add cubes of butter and use your hands to work butter into flour, until a shaggy dough starts to form. Combine water and vinegar and add to dough. Knead dough until it comes together. Shape dough into a disc and wrap in plastic. Chill for at least an hour.
  2. Roll out dough to about a 13 inch diameter. Transfer to a 9 inch pie dish, letting sides hand over by about 1 inch. Place pie dish in fridge while preparing filling.
To make the filling:
  1. Preheat oven to 425F.
  2. Toss sweet potatoes with a small amount of olive oil and bake until tender, about 25 minutes. Reduce oven to 400F.
  3. Transfer sweet potatoes to food processor and puree, adding a little bit of water just to loosen, until sweet potato is smooth. Measure out 1¾ cups puree (you can use the rest for something else). Pour puree into a saucepan and stir over medium low heat for about 10 minutes, letting the water you added cook out and the sweet potato start to caramelize. Remove from heat. Add sugar, salt, cinnamon and ginger and stir well.
  4. In a medium sized bowl, whisk together eggs, cream, and milk. Slowly pour milk into warm sweet potato mixture, whisking constantly, until mixture is smooth.
  5. Pour filling immediately into prepped pie crust. Trim the pie crust and crimp the edges, if desired. Bake for 25-40 minutes, until pie is golden brown and custard has set. Let cool before serving.
Recipe by Things I Made Today at https://www.thingsimadetoday.com/2018/02/26/sweet-potato-pie/