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Pumpkin and rice pie recipe

Created by Karmen Tedesco

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Cuisine: Maltese
Prep Time: 1 hr(s)
Cook Time: 1 hr(s)
Serves 6

Healthy, hearty and highlighting fresh ingredients, this traditional Maltese pie is a delight to cook. Author of 11 Maltese cookbooks, Karmen Tedesco talks us through how to make pumpkin and rice pie.

Ingredients

400g plain flour
100ml olive oil
150ml water

Pie filling
1kg pumpkin, chopped into small cubes
150ml water
150g rice
1 tbsp olive oil
100g chopped onions
12 black olives, chopped
3 tbsp fresh mint
4 anchovy fillets (or sundried tomatoes)
180g canned tuna

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Preparation

You will need a 30cm pie dish for this recipe.

To make the pastry, in a large bowl, rub the oil into the flour, adding the water in small amounts until the flour mix is solid and mouldable.

In a large saucepan, add the pumpkin, water and rice, and cook over a moderate heat, until it boils. Lower the temperature slightly and simmer for 20 minutes until the water is absorbed.

In a separate pan, heat the oil and cook the onion, until soft. Add the olives, mint, anchovy fillets and tuna. Mix and cook for a further 2 minutes. If needed, you can add a little water to ensure it doesn’t dry out.

Set aside the onion mix and allow to cool. Once cool, mix this in with the pumpkin and rice mixture.

Take two-thirds of the pastry, and start rolling the pastry to the size of the pie dish. Line the pie dish with the pastry.

Spread the pumpkin and rice mixture on top of the pastry and cover with the rest of the pastry. Seal the edges and make a couple of slits on the top.

Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 40 minutes, or until golden brown. Let it cool before serving with a salad.

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Comments (2)

10 Sep 2012 06:54 AEST

Gen

Sydney Australia

Pumpkin pie

I make this pie once a year on good Friday &we love it

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05 Jul 2012 02:30 AEST

Annie K Hughes

Hampstead, New Hampshire

Pumpkin Rice Pie

This recipe is wonderful, and easy,, my husband who is Maltese loves it. He said it brings back many of his childhood recipes.

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