Sweet potato pie with cranberry-pecan marmalade
1 hour 20 minutes
A fresh cranberry and nut layer lightens the texture of this classic dessert and adds a special blend of anti-oxidants. Cranberries provide fibre along with some vitamin C.
Lynn Lewis
1 person made this
Ingredients
Serves: 8
- 175 g whole frozen cranberries
- ½ cup (100g) plus ⅔ cups (140 g) sugar
- ½ cup (125 ml) water
- ¾ cup (85 g) pecans, toasted and chopped
- ready-made pastry for a 25 cm case
- 2 cups (500 g) cooked, mashed orange sweet potatoes (about 2 medium)
- 1 can (375 ml) light evaporated milk
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 2 large egg whites, lightly beaten
- ½ teaspoon vanilla essence
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
- pinch of salt
Directions
Preparation:20min ›
Cook:1hour ›
Ready in:1hour20min
- For the cranberry-pecan marmalade, place the cranberries, ½ cup sugar and the water in a small saucepan. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat; simmer until the cranberries pop and are softened, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in pecans. Leave mixture to cool.
- Preheat oven to 220°C. Roll out pastry to a 30 cm circle. Use to line a 25 cm pie plate. Crimp edges.
- Thoroughly combine the mashed sweet potato, evaporated milk, ⅔ cup sugar, egg, egg whites, vanilla essence, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and salt in a large bowl.
- Spread cooled marmalade over bottom of pie shell. Pour the potato mixture on top.
- Bake for 10 minutes. Lower temperature to 180°C. Bake until the centre is set, about 40 minutes. Transfer pie to a wire rack. Cool for 30 minutes. Refrigerate to cool completely.
