Healthy Holiday Recipe: Light and Luscious Pumpkin Pie

Here's another healthy holiday recipe! Pumpkin pie. When I saw this in my cookbook I freaked out, I LOOOVE pumpkin pie and to see a recipe for one I can eat, well I was all over it. It's from "The ultimate low-calorie book" By Better Homes and Gardens

PREP: 30 minutes BAKE: 40 minutes OVEN: 450 F/ 375 F MAKE 10 servings

Ingredients: 
1 recipe Oil Pastry Sugar (recipe below)
1 15-ounce can pumpkin
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 eggs lightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup evaporated fat-free milk


Directions:

Oil Pastry Sugar: In a medium bowl stir together 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Add 1/3 cup vegetable oil and 3 tablespoons fat-free milk at all once to flour mixture. Stir lightly with a for until combined. Shape into a ball. Makes 1 pastry.

Pie:

1) Preheat oven to 450 F. Prepare Oil Pastry. On a well-floured surface, slightly flatten pastry. Roll pastry from center to edges into a 12-in circle. Wrap pastry circle around rolling pin; unroll into a 9-inch pie plate. Ease pastry into pie plate. Crimp edge as desired. Do not prick pastry. Line pastry with a double thickness of foil. Bake for 8 minutes. Remove foil. Bake for 5 minutes more. Cool on a wire rack. Reduce oven temperature to 375 F

2) If desired, combine the reserved pastry scraps; flatten to 1/4  in thickness. Using desired cookie cutter, cut out shapes for top of pie. Place on an ungreased baking sheet. If desired, sprinkle with sugar. Bake for 7-10 minutes or until golden brown. Transfer to a wire rack; cool.

3) For filling, in a medium bowl combine pumpkin, 1/3 cup sugar, honey, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg. Add egg and vanilla. Beat lightly with a fork just until combined. Gradually stir in evaporated milk. Pour filling into baked pastry shell.

4) To prevent overbrowning, cover edge of pie with foil. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until filling appears set (edges of filling may crack slightly).

5) Cool on wire rack. if desired, top with baked pastry cutouts. Cover and chill for 2 hrs.

Nutrition facts per serving: 196 cal, 8 g total fat, 28 g carb. 5 g protein.