Healthy Pumpkin Pie with Pecan Crust (Recipe)

Healthy Pumpkin Pie with Pecan Crust (Recipe)
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I LOVE this pumpkin pie! No surprise it got rave reviews when it was featured on Good Morning America for Thanksgiving a few years ago! Typically, a pumpkin pie is made with a regular pie shell made up of white flour, shortening, sugar and salt and the custard contains molasses, salt and sometimes butter or cream. Instead, this luscious pie uses a nutty/ puffin cereal base that is more like a cookie crumb crust that adds fiber and healthy fat from pecans instead of the saturated or trans-fat from shortening, and of course no added salt. This pie also contains more pumpkin than the typical recipe calls for, so it is even richer in fiber (I like this brand but there are others). The little addition of dark rum makes it so rich tasting and just perfect! The result is a delightful (gluten-free) creamy gem of a pie you will love; and even better – it will love you back!

Ingredients

Wet Ingredients:

2 ½ cups canned organic pumpkin (100%-no added sugar or salt)

Catherine Katz
Catherine Katz
Author
Catherine Katz, Ph.D. is the founder of Cuisinicity- Love the Food That Loves You Back, a website where good food and good health come together in a way that is feasible for today’s busy families, as it has been for hers (Catherine and her husband, Nutrition expert Dr. David L. Katz, have 5 children!).
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