Pumpkin Pie with Eggs

Serves 2 in about 2 hours. Refrigerated pie pastry goes in first, and ground cloves finishes the pot.

Ingredients

• Refrigerated pie pastry (for 2 pie bottoms, no tops needed)
• 1 15-ounce can pumpkin puree (not pie filling/mix)
• 1 12-ounce can evaporated milk
• ½ cup brown sugar
• ¼ cup white sugar
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon nutmeg
• ½ teaspoon ground ginger
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
• 3 eggs

Method

1. Heat the air fryer to 300° F for about 5 minutes.
2. Set the pastry into a 7 or 8-inch pie pan. Cut off any excess pastry (there should only be about 1 inch of pastry over the edge of the pie plate.
3. Press a sheet of tin foil over the pastry - the tin foil should be pressed into every nook of the crust and make sure it is larger than the crust so it can easily be removed later. Fill the tin foil with beans, pie weights, or rice.
4. Blind bake the crust (this means there is no filling in it yet) for 10 minutes at 300° F*.
5. Then remove the tin foil containing the beans, weights, or rice. Prick the bottom of the crust with a fork about 10 times (this keeps it from puffing up too much) and bake at 300 for another 5 minutes.
6. While the crust is baking, use a hand mixer to combine the pumpkin, evaporated milk, brown sugar, white sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, salt, cloves. Once your batter is combined, mix in the eggs.
7. Move the batter into a smaller container that allows you to easily pour it, like a liquid measuring cup. Leave the crust in the air fryer while you carefully pour the pumpkin batter into the pie plate.
8. If you have an air fryer with a rack that allows you to cook both pies at the same time, you may get both of the pies ready to bake, otherwise bake them one at a time.
9. Set the temperature to 350° F and bake the pie for 20 minutes. The middle should be just set, not jiggly. If it is jiggly, bake at 5 instant intervals until done.
10. Cool the pies at room temperature for an hour, maximum 2 hours (Just remove the basket from the air fryer and do not remove the pie(s) from the basket - it is too hot and difficult to move.).
11. Then cool the pies in the fridge for at least 2 hours to firm up.

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