Chocolate Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients list for Chocolate Pumpkin Pie

• 2 tablespoons Refined flour (maida)
• 450 grams Pumpkin peeled, pressure cooked and pureed
• Zest of 1 orange
• a pinch Clove powder
• ¼ cup Sugar
• 1 teaspoon Cinnamon powder
• ¼ teaspoon Nutmeg powder
• ½ cup Fresh cream
• 2 Eggs
• 2 Egg yolks beaten
• ¼ cup Cocoa powder
• 1½ cups Refined flour (maida)
• 2 tablespoons Icing sugar
• a pinch Salt
• ¾ cup Butter chilled and diced
• 1 Egg yolk
• 100 grams Dark chocolate melted

Method

1. Sieve together the cocoa powder, flour, icing sugar and salt into a bowl. Add the butter and mix till the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
2. Take the egg yolk in a bowl. Add one-fourth and one tablespoon water and mix well. Add this to the flour mixture, mix and knead into a stiff dough.
3. Place the dough on the worktop and knead for thirty seconds or till smooth. Flatten into a disc, wrap in a cling film and refrigerate for thirty minutes.
4. Roll out the dough and line a 23 cm pie tin with it. Discard the excess dough and prick the base with a fork. Refrigerate for thirty minutes.
5. Preheat the oven to 180º C. Line the pie crust with a parchment paper and fill it with baking beans. Put the tin in the preheated oven and bake for twenty minutes.
6. Remove the paper and beans and bake for another five minutes. Remove from oven and cool.
7. Pour the melted chocolate in it and refrigerate till set.
8. To make the pumpkin filling, combine the pureed pumpkin, flour, orange zest, clove powder, sugar, cinnamon powder, nutmeg powder, cream, eggs and beaten egg yolks in a bowl and mix well.
9. Pour the filling in the pie crust, cover with an aluminium foil, put it in the preheated oven and bake for forty to fifty minutes. Remove from oven and cool.
10. Cut into wedges and serve.

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