Pumpkin-Pecan Pie

Pumpkin-Pecan Pie

This is one of the easiest and tastiest side dishes you will ever make and as a bonus, you will have one bowl and one jug to clean! You may prepare this dish the day before you want to serve it and simply heat it up when needed.

500ml pumpkin purée (cooked pumpkin, finely mashed)
375ml flour
250ml sugar
60ml butter, melted
250ml cream
3 eggs, lightly beaten
250ml pecan nuts, roughly chopped
45ml granulated sugar
5ml cinnamon

Preheat your oven to 180℃.
Add the pumpkin purée, flour and sugar to a mixing bowl and stir to combine.
Add the melted butter, cream and egg to a wide-mouthed jug and whisk together.
Pour the wet ingredients into the pumpkin mixture and mix to a batter.
Stir in the chopped nuts.
Grease a ceramic pie dish and pour the mixture into it.
Add the sugar and cinnamon to a small bowl and mix. Sprinkle onto the pie surface.
Bake the pie for 1 hour, until set.
Serve warm.

Beetroot Bread

Beetroot Bread

This bread has a moist texture and is absolutely perfect for a topping of tomato, salad, cucumber and avocado. Easy to make and it will prettify your table!

10ml instant yeast
350ml water, lukewarm
500g bread flour
10ml salt
250g beetroot, grated
30ml oil

Sprinkle the yeast onto the water and give it a good stir.
Add the flour, salt, beetroot and oil to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook and mix on low speed for one minute.
Add the yeast mixture and mix/knead for another 3 minutes.
At this stage you want a dough that comes loose from the sides of the bowl. If the dough is too soft to come together in a ball, add a handful of flour and allow your machine to incorporate it. Keep adding small amounts of bread flour until the dough just comes together in a kneadable dough.
Add a few drops of vegetable oil to a clean mixing bowl and cover the sides and bottom with a thin layer. Now add the dough to the bowl, cover with plastic wrap/a bag and put aside to rest for an hour.
Preheat your oven to 210℃.
Take the dough from the bowl, gently knock it back and shape it into a round. Place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Cover the bread with a clean tea towel and rest for another 20 minutes.
Bake the bread for 30 minutes.
Cool completely before cutting.

If you would like to “decorate” your bread as in the image below, follow the following guidelines:
Once you have knocked back the dough, cut about a third of the dough from the rest.
Shape the larger quantity dough into a ball and place it in a small, deep cake tin. Brush the surface with a small amount of water.
Roll the rest of the dough to a 1cm thickness and cut into strips about three centimetres wide.
Roll each strip into a coil and place onto the dough ball.
Stand for 20 minutes before baking.