Pumpkin Brulee
- 6 miniature pumpkins, each about 1/2 pound
- 3/4 cup milk
- 3/4 cup heavy sweet cream
- 4 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 vanilla bean, split
- 3 egg yolks
- 3 tablespoons white sugar
- 3 tablespoons dark brown sugar
- Spice Ice Cream
- Pumpkin Chips
- Preheat oven to 300.
- Remove stems from pumpkins and cut off tops.
- Hollow out pumpkins, discarding seeds, reserving pulp, and leaving 1/4-inch perimeter of pulp in shells.
- Cut pumpkin pulp into cubes and place in a saucepan.
- Cover with water and bring to a boil.
- Cook until pumpkin is tender, about 20 to 30 minutes.
- Drain pumpkin and place in a food processor.
- Puree until very fine, and strain.
- Reserve 3/4 cup pumpkin pulp for this recipe and refrigerate remainder of pulp for another use.
- Combine milk, cream, 2 tablespoons sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla bean in a saucepan.
- Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally.
- Remove from heat just after mixture has come to a boil.
- Remove vanilla bean and add pumpkin puree.
- Stir until ingredients are combined and allow mixture to cool.
- Combine 2 tablespoons sugar and egg yolks and beat until eggs are pale and form a light ribbon.
- Add a third of milk-pumpkin mixture to egg-yolk mixture and beat to combine.
- Return ingredients to saucepan and cook over very low heat, stirring, for 2 minutes.
- Be careful not to let mixture come to a simmer.
- Beat the sauce for 1 minute, off heat, to cool, and strain through a fine sieve.
- Spoon custard mixture into pumpkin shells.
- Place shells on a baking sheet and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until custard has set.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool on baking sheet.
- Preheat broiler.
- Combine white sugar and brown sugar and mix.
- Spoon sugar mixture over Custards.
- Place pumpkin shells under broiler and broil until sugar has caramelized.
- Check broiler after 2 minutes and turn pumpkin shells if sugar appears to be browning only in one spot.
- To Serve: Place pumpkin shells on six dessert plates.
- Place a scoop of Spice Ice Cream on top of each pumpkin.
- Garnish with Pumpkin Chips.
pumpkins, milk, heavy sweet cream, sugar, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, vanilla bean, egg yolks, white sugar, dark brown sugar, cream, pumpkin chips
Taken from www.cookstr.com/recipes/pumpkin-brulee (may not work)