Pumpkin Pie: Clean Edition

First, let's all raise the roof together because the pie bake was a success. In New Zealand when you say pie, people automatically think savory mini pies full of meat, cheese, veggies, potatoes, anything goes really...soo that being said it was a bit of a mission to find a traditional USA style Pie Tin, but I did manage to hunt one down at The Warehouse. "Where everyone gets a bargainnn" That little commercial jingle always pops into my head when I hear/see The Warehouse. (their verison of Walmart...sort of) Amazing how a commercial jingle can be the one song that gets stuck in your head, for literally years. FOODMAXXX Take it to the max, the maximizing shopping POWWWAA FoooodMax....CHEAP! See what I mean?

  The Clean Eating pie recipe I used is from one of my fav. websites:: 

The Gracious Pantry's recipe, you can find it here.

I also used her clean pie crust recipe, over here. 

Hats off to pastry chef's cause making a pie crust is tough! When I was at the American Store the other day I was sooo close to just buying a pre-made pie crust, but I was determined to make my own, even just once if it didn't turn out.

Side note:: I did do some minor changes to the recipe, so it's not exactly what you would find on The Gracious Pantry's website. I will note them below. (Yes, I'm "slap-dash" as they call it here in kiwi-land, lil of this lil of that...and on to the next! Now there's a saying you hear on the reg.) Ah getting distracted...

Clean Eating Pie Crust

Ingredients
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour + extra (I just used regular whole wheat flour)
1 tsp. salt
1/4 cup oil (see above notes in post)
1/4 cup fat free milk (I used organic unsweetened almond milk)
Mini pour of corn syrup- whole wheat pastry flour tends to absorb a lot of liquid so this helped with that, because of this I also used a tad more milk than the recipe called for

Directions

Prepare your pie tin

Step 1 – Spray your tin with a coat of spray-on olive oil.
Step 2 – Add a handful of whole wheat pastry flour to your tin.
Step 3 – Shake your tin around until the flour completely coats the surface. Set aside.

Here's the dish I found, the little American flag stood out to me and hollered, "OVER HERE," use me! Ya don't hear that everyday.

Pie Crust Dough

Step 1 – Put flour and salt into a mixing bowl and mix.
Step 2 – Measure your milk and oil into the same cup.
Step 3 – Mix well by hand until you have a firm dough. Flatten slightly with your hands or rolling pin, and then place onto a wax baking sheet. (Guess what I used? Yep, my hands)
Step 5 – My dough was super sticky so I basically poured the dough into the pie tin and used my hands to flatted and form it

 

Mix it, mix it good.

Nutritional Content
1 serving = 1 pie crust – Keep in mind that you would not eat an entire pie crust in one sitting. Divide these numbers by 8 to get the accurate amount for one slice.
Calories: 712 (1 slice = 89 calories)
Total Fat: 38 gm (1 slice = 5)
Saturated Fats: 5 gm (1 slice = 1)
Trans Fats: 0 gm (1 slice = 0)
Cholesterol: 1 gm (1 slice = 0)
Sodium: 807 mg (1 slice = 101)
Carbohydrates: 83 gm (1 slice = 10)
Dietary fiber: 13 gm (1 slice = 2)
Sugars: 4 gm (1 slice = 1)
Protein: 17 gm (1 slice = 2)

Clean Pumpkin Pie 

Ingredients
2 cups prepared pumpkin
1/2 cup honey
4 egg whites
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground ginger (didn't have this, but threw in some all spice instead)
1/4 tsp. ground cloves
1 1/2 cups fat-free milk (Again, I used organic unsweetened almond milk)

Directions

Purchased from the American Store, Martha's Backyard, and yes that says $6.00 

**insert shocked face here**

 

Step 1 – Combine all ingredients in a large mixing bowl, and mix thoroughly::

 

 

 

Whoops, forgot the ground clove heyoo

Step 2 – Pour mixture into pie crusts::

 

Step 3 – Bake at 425 degrees F. for 15 minutes::

 

Step 4 – Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F. and bake for 45 additional minutes::

Nutritional Content
1 serving = 1/8 of a pie
Calories: 192
Total Fat: 8 gm
Saturated Fats: 1 gm
Trans Fats: 0 gm
Cholesterol: 0 gm
Sodium: 180 mg
Carbohydrates: 27 gm
Dietary fiber: 6 gm
Sugars: 7 gm
Protein: 6 gm