Description
Pecan pie is a pie of pecan nuts mixed with a filling of eggs, butter, and sugar. Variations may include white or brown sugar, cane syrup, sugar syrup, molasses, maple syrup, or honey or as in this case Golden Syrup.
Ingredients
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Short Crust Pastry for Base
- 2 cups Flour
- 125g Cold Butter
- 125ml Iced Water
- 1 Teaspoon Lemon Juice
- 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
Pecan Nut Mixture
- 125g Pecan Nuts
- 60g butter
- 150g Brown Sugar
- 2 Large beaten eggs
- 100ml Golden syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Instructions
Pastry:
- Sift Flour and salt.
Cut butter into small cubes and rub into flour till it resembles breadcrumbs. - Mix water & lemon juice into the flour mix to make a stiff dough and knead it well.
- Cling it and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- After an hour roll out dough on a floured surface to about 3mm in thickness then roll out onto a greased 23cm to 25cm pie dish and blind bake.
Blind bake:
- Poke the base with a fork, place a sheet of greaseproof paper over the pastry, and sprinkle dried beans over it. Bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove beans and paper.
- Arrange pecan nuts on the pastry.
Mixture:
- Lightly beat the melted butter, sugar, and eggs together.
- Add Golden syrup & vanilla while beating till foamy.
- Pour egg mixture over nuts.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C / 350F for 40 to 45 minutes.
- Leave to cool before removing from the pan.
- Enjoy
Notes
Prepared, tried, and tested by Jennifer from SA Tasty Recipes – Saffas Daily Recipes
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 523
- Sugar: 26
- Sodium: 316
- Fat: 32
- Saturated Fat: 13
- Unsaturated Fat: 16
- Trans Fat: 1
- Carbohydrates: 56
- Fiber: 2
- Protein: 6
- Cholesterol: 96
