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Pecan pie

You can't beat a good old fashion pecan pie
Course Dessert

Ingredients
  

  • 3 eggs
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup glucose syrup
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 4 Tbsp melted butter
  • cup pecans
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 portion chilled butter pastry shell

Instructions
 

  • Filling

To make Filling

  • Break eggs in to a bowl and lightly whisk.
  • Add glucose syrup, brown sugar salt vanilla and melted butter. Stir to combine then add pecans. You can arrange the pecans into a pinwheel pattern but I generally
  • Pour into unbaked pastry - You can arrange the pecans into a pinwheel pattern but I generally like the random pattern. To prevent the crust from burning , cover exposed edge crust with tin foil
  • Cook in 180 C oven for roughly 30 mins. After 20 mins , uncover the crusts to brown.
  • The pie should puff up a bit and not be overly jiggly. If it seems not quite cooked, continue but cover the whole pie with foil to prevent pecans from burning
  • Cool for several hours or better yet overnight. Serve with vanilla ice cream
Keyword dessert, pie