Healthy Pumpkin Pie

Healthy Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients

For the Pie Crust:

• 1 ½ cup spelt flour 
• 1 tablespoon rapadura sugar
• ½ teaspoon sea salt
• ¼ cup coconut oil
• 1 egg
• 4 tablespoons Ice Water (more if needed)

For the Filling: 

• 450g cooked & mashed pumpkin
• 3 eggs
• ¼ cup pure maple syrup
• ¼ cup rapadura sugar
• ¼ cup unsweetened almond milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon nutmeg
• ½ teaspoon ground ginger
• ½ teaspoon allspice
• ¼ teaspoon salt

Instructions

1. Prepare the crust: Add flour, rapadura sugar and salt to the food processor and pulse to combine.
2. Add the coconut oil (must be solid, not melted) and egg and pulse until the mixture is crumbly.
3. Add ice water and pulse it to combine. It should look like a dough now and if you break off a piece and roll it in your hands it should easily roll into a ball. If too dry, add more water.
4. Remove the dough from the food processor, transfer to a floured surface and roll the dough into a big round ball.
5. Using a rolling pin roll out the dough from side to side into a large circle that is wider than your 9-inch pie dish.
6. Spray your pie dish with non-stick spray and then roll up the crust in your rolling pin (or just pick it up carefully) and carefully unroll it over the top of your pie dish. Carefully tuck the crust in along the edges of your pie dish.
7. Take a scissors and trim off any excess dough but make sure that there is a little overhang over the edges of the dish. Place your pie crust into the fridge while you prepare your pie filling.
8. Prepare your filling: Add all ingredients to the blender and blend until smooth.  If you don't have a blender, then just add all ingredients to a mixing bowl and use a hand whisk to whisk it until smooth. 
9. Pour this out over your pie crust and smooth down with the back of a spoon. 
10. Place into the oven to bake for 45 minutes at 180°C. 
11. When you remove the pie from the oven, it will still be quite wobbly in the center, this is completely fine, it will firm up when cooling. Your pie may also be quite dark in color when first removed from the oven, it lightens up a lot when cool. 
12. Allow to cool on the counter before serving.
13. Store in fridge.

Approved for: Adrenal Diet

Filipa Bellette is Co-Founder of Chris & Filly Functional Medicine. She is an accredited Clinical Nutritionist & Functional Medicine Practitioner. She is also a Ph.D. thought-leader, award-winning writer, and regularly published as a guest blogger & in the media. Together with her husband Chris Bellette, Filipa has worked with over 2,000+ busy, burnout clients in the last 10+ years, and specialises in producing healthy, balanced, and happy Mums & Dads…or as she calls it, a Power Parent! Filipa’s own passion for producing high-performance Power Parents came from her own personal experience of Mummy Burnout, after having babies and juggling the demands of business, family, and her failing health.