Curried Squash Pie
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
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Crust
- 1 1⁄2 cups finely ground Nabisco Triscuits (salted whole-wheat crackers)
- 3⁄4 teaspoon pepper
- 1⁄4 cup butter, melted
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Filling
- 1 onion, minced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons curry powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 1⁄2 cups squash, puree
- 3 large eggs, separated,at room temp
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
directions
- Make crust: Preheat oven to 350F (175C).
- Stir together crumbs, pepper and butter and press into bottom and up sides of a 9 inch metal pie dish.
- Bake shell in the middle of the oven for 8-10 minutes, or until crisp and golden-brown.
- Let cool.
- Make filling: Preheat oven to 375F (190C).
- Cook onion in oil over moderately-low heat, stirring, until it is softened.
- Add garlic and cook mixture, stirring, for 1 minute.
- Add curry and cumin and cook, stirring, for 1 minute.
- Add squash, egg yolks, beaten lightly, and salt and cook the mixture, stirring constantly, until it is hot and thickened slightly.
- Do not let it boil.
- Transfer to a bowl.
- In another bowl, beat the egg whites with the cream of tartar until they just hold stiff peaks.
- Stir ¼ of whites into squash mixture to lighten and fold in remaining whites with 4 tblsps of the Parmesan cheese.
- Spoon into shell, smoothing and mounding slightly and sprinkle with remaining Parmesan cheese.
- Bake in middle of oven for 25 minutes, or until puffed and golden and tester comes out clean.
- Good hot or cold.
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Reviews
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Well, Evelyn, I finally took this out of the freezer and baked it! We loved this!! I at this for three days and it kept tasting better and better!! It is a very nice savory pie, densely textured but light as a whole. This pie did not "puff up like a souffle" for me. This might have been due to my freezing it prior to baking, but we loved this anyway. I will make this many times. Thank you for suggesting and posting this!
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.