Ingredients
- For the base:
- 1 cup of walnuts
- 1/4 cup of pumpkin seeds
- 7 meejool dates, pitted
- Pinch of himalayan or fine sea salt
- For the filling: Set 1:
- 2 cups of cubed squash (I used butternut)
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 3/4 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp ground cloves
- Pinch of himalayan sea salt
- 1/4 cup maple syrup (you could use raw honey or yacon syrup)
- For the filling: Set 2:
- 1 cup of cashew nuts soaked overnight and drained
- Zest of 1 lime
- Juice of two big limes (3 smaller)
- 1 cup of nut milk- I used a mix of homemade cashew and hemp milk
- The seeds of 1 vanilla pod or 1/4 tsp alcohol and sugar free vanilla extract
- Just over 1/4 cup of melted coconut oil- around 85ml
Details
servings 8
Level of difficulty Average
Cost Average budget
Preparation
Step 1
First of all make your base. Blitz the nuts and seeds first until they re fine crumbs, then add the dates. Pulse the mixture until it forms a 'dough'. Press this out into a 22cm loose bottom flan/pie dish to form the crust and set aside while you make the filling.
Step 2
The filling for this recipe is assembled in two parts to achieve maximum creamyness!
Tip set 1 ingredients into a food processor and blitz until as smooth a texture as you can achieve. It will still look quite 'rustic' at this stage, but don't worry-They'll get blended up later on to make it completely smooth. The smoother texture you can achieve now, the easier that will be!
Step 3
Tip set 2 ingredients into a blender and blend until creamy smooth. Although this is quicker in a high speed blender, any blender will do, it will just take a little longer. Take the processed set 1 ingredients and add these also to the blender. Continue blending until well mixed and creamy- you don't want any lumps at this stage as this is the final stage of the filling.
Step 4
Pour the mixture into the pie dish and pop in the fridge for around 6 hours (or overnight) until it has set. That's it! Serve with some raw vanilla ice cream.
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