East Texas Pecan Sweet Potato Pie
East Texas Pecan Sweet Potato Pie

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, east texas pecan sweet potato pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook east texas pecan sweet potato pie using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make East Texas Pecan Sweet Potato Pie:
  1. Make ready 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Prepare 1 frozen 9" deep dish prepared pie shell
  3. Take 2 cup mashed sweet potato @ room temperature (about 2-3 medium size)
  4. Prepare 1/4 cup melted unsalted butter
  5. Take 2 large eggs
  6. Take 1/3 cup roughly chopped toasted pecan pieces
  7. Make ready 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  8. Prepare 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
  9. Take 2 tbsp all purpose flour
  10. Take 3/4 cup half n half cream
  11. Make ready 2 tsp vanilla extract
  12. Take 3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
  13. Prepare 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
  14. Prepare 1/2 tsp table salt

For filling: In a large bowl, whisk together sweet potato, sugars, eggs, melted butter, flour, molasses, vanilla, salt, cinnamon, and zest. In a bowl, combine sugar, flour, milk, egg and vanilla. For glaze, combine the sugar, flour, butter and milk; drizzle over sweet potato mixture. Cover edges or pastry loosely with foil.

Instructions to make East Texas Pecan Sweet Potato Pie:
  1. Toast pecan pieces in a pan over medium heat, until you can smell them. Roughly 3-5 minutes. Set aside.
  2. Cream mashed sweet potato, melted butter and eggs together until very smooth. I use a stand mixer.
  3. Add all remaining ingredients including toasted chopped pecans and blend together until mixture is very smooth.
  4. Pour into frozen pie shell and bake at 350" for approximately 50-60 minutes until pie custard is set. Pie will be done when a wooden toothpick comes out clean when inserted.
  5. You can boil your sweet potatoes or even use canned. I prefer fresh baked sweet potatoes. I like to serve this pie well chilled and keep it stored in the refrigerator. Garnish with whipped cream and toasted pecan pieces. Enjoy!!

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