Today is Wednesday, Children’s Day, but it’s not like any other Wednesday. It’s the day before Halloween! Time to make a themed dish to delight young and old alike. With its pretty orange color – and the horrific imagination associated with its double, the pumpkin – the pumpkin is the perfect ingredient to make today’s recipe: a pie!
A sharing dish
Pie is a dish that is happily shared like a good roast, unless they are scary sweet mini pies.
Sometimes, during the festivities, your eyes are bigger than your stomach! Fortunately, pie is a dish that can easily be kept for 3 to 4 days in the refrigerator and thus avoids waste. While chicken pie or potato pie are the most popular savory versions, a pie can be filled with the ingredients and condiments of your choice.
For our cherubs dressed in their scariest disguises, the dish must be up to the task. Pumpkin pie pays homage to Jack O’Lantern’s awful tea light holder, with its face carved into a pumpkin. By cutting puff pastry, it is easy to bring the creature to life. Another way is to use a pumpkin-shaped cake pan.
Jack and his tealight holder are not the only creatures to appear during Halloween… To ward off evil vampires, the best ally is garlic, which we combine with the star ingredient of our recipe. An idea that will satisfy both taste desires and vitamin intake thanks to the beta-carotene of pumpkin for eyesight and the phosphorus of garlic for bones. Everyone needs energy, even zombies!
Wednesday’s recipe: pumpkin head pie
2 puff pastries
300 g pumpkin flesh
50 g of parmesan
1 clove of garlic
1 tbsp. teaspoon powdered cardamom
Salt, pepper
1 egg
Bloody theme obliges, start by cutting the pumpkin flesh into pieces.
Place the pieces in a pan of boiling salted water and cook at a simmer for 20 minutes. Don’t forget to shiver just as much! Then mash the pumpkin into a puree, then mix it with grated parmesan, cardamom and the previously peeled and chopped garlic. Salt and pepper.
Preheat the oven to 200°C/th. 6-7.
Roll out the puff pastry rolls.
Cut them into a pumpkin shape with a little tail at the top. Place the first dough on a baking tray covered with baking paper and cover it with pumpkin puree, leaving 2 cm around the edge. Cut the second dough in such a way as to create, like the scientist Frankenstein, a demonic (pumpkin) face. Moisten the edges of the first dough with a little water and cover with the pumpkin face.
Break and beat the egg, then brush the pie with it using a brush.
Bake for 25 min.
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