Low carb microwave pumpkin pie

Uncle Enrico said:

For the crust, I make soy flour crumbles by mixing canola oil, soy
flour, cinnamon and Splenda in a non-stick pan, stirring with a wooden
spoon over a medium heat until I get crisp crumbles. Sprinkle these
over the cooked pie mix.

Make that a medium to low heat and watch for burning. You want a light
browning of the crumbles.

i wonder if you could use your crumble stuff as a real pie crust?
(on the bottom of the pie plate)

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Uncle Enrico said:

For the crust, I make soy flour crumbles by mixing canola oil, soy
flour, cinnamon and Splenda in a non-stick pan, stirring with a
wooden spoon over a medium heat until I get crisp crumbles. Sprinkle
these over the cooked pie mix.

Make that a medium to low heat and watch for burning. You want a light
browning of the crumbles.

rosie read n' post said:

i wonder if you could use your crumble stuff as a real pie crust?
(on the bottom of the pie plate)

Why not just use finely chopped nuts in melted butter for a crust? You
could add a bit of whey protein powder for a binder, too.

--Jenny

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yes, that is what i do for a crust..............what can i use for a
binder, other than protein powder?

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rosie read n' post said:

i wonder if you could use your crumble stuff as a real pie crust?
(on the bottom of the pie plate)

Why not just use finely chopped nuts in melted butter for a crust? You
could add a bit of whey protein powder for a binder, too.

--Jenny

http://www.geocities.com/lottadata4u/ Type 2 Diabetes info
http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Low Carb info

Jenny said:

rosie read n' post said:

i wonder if you could use your crumble stuff as a real pie crust?
(on the bottom of the pie plate)

I'm trying to avoid overdoing the soy flour and the carbs. The
sprinkling gives one the taste of a crust without the extra carbs. For
presentation use covered ramekins in the microwave, then cool, sprinkle
and serve.

Quoted message said:

Why not just use finely chopped nuts in melted butter for a crust? You
could add a bit of whey protein powder for a binder, too.

Have you ever turned the nuts into a kind of nut meal? Do you use a
flavored protein poweder? I'm anxious to try this.

Quoted message said:

--Jenny

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http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Low Carb info

Uncle Enrico said:

I'm so happy I can now eat pumpkin pie and make it in the microwave.

We make it in the oven.

Quoted message said:

Buy canned pumpkin. Beware of Pumpkin Pie Mix in the can. It's loaded
with sugar.

Yup. Canned pumpkin rules, the mix stuff has all sorts of added junk.

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Follow recipe, but make these substitutions. Use sweetener instead of
sugar (obviously). Substitute Hood's Low carb dairy beverage for the
milk. Add a little whole cream to the mix. You could probably use a low
carb soy milk with a little whole cream.

We go with just cream as the dairy. Never considered soy milk.

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Microwave a pie-deep level of the mix in a covered microwave dish at low
heat for about 20 minutes. I set my power setting at 40%. Check it every
so often. When you can insert a knife slightly off center and it comes
out clean, it's done.

In the oven the time straight off the recipe on the can.

Quoted message said:

For the crust, I make soy flour crumbles by mixing canola oil, soy
flour, cinnamon and Splenda in a non-stick pan, stirring with a wooden
spoon over a medium heat until I get crisp crumbles. Sprinkle these
over the cooked pie mix.

For the crust we use a white ceramic bowl. Seriously, no crust at all.
Works great, dishwasher safe. And the same filling can go into a
flour crust for the grass eaters in the house.

Spices I like in pumpkin - allspice, cinnamon, clove.

Doug Freyburger said:

Uncle Enrico said:

I'm so happy I can now eat pumpkin pie and make it in the microwave.

We make it in the oven.

Quoted message said:

Buy canned pumpkin. Beware of Pumpkin Pie Mix in the can. It's loaded
with sugar.

Yup. Canned pumpkin rules, the mix stuff has all sorts of added junk.

Quoted message said:

Follow recipe, but make these substitutions. Use sweetener instead of
sugar (obviously). Substitute Hood's Low carb dairy beverage for the
milk. Add a little whole cream to the mix. You could probably use a low
carb soy milk with a little whole cream.

We go with just cream as the dairy. Never considered soy milk.

Quoted message said:

Microwave a pie-deep level of the mix in a covered microwave dish at low
heat for about 20 minutes. I set my power setting at 40%. Check it every
so often. When you can insert a knife slightly off center and it comes
out clean, it's done.

In the oven the time straight off the recipe on the can.

Quoted message said:

For the crust, I make soy flour crumbles by mixing canola oil, soy
flour, cinnamon and Splenda in a non-stick pan, stirring with a wooden
spoon over a medium heat until I get crisp crumbles. Sprinkle these
over the cooked pie mix.

For the crust we use a white ceramic bowl. Seriously, no crust at all.
Works great, dishwasher safe. And the same filling can go into a
flour crust for the grass eaters in the house.

Spices I like in pumpkin - allspice, cinnamon, clove.

Thanks for the tip on allspice. The pumpkin can recipe calls for ginger,
instead of allspice, but I've got a ton of allspice and just a little
bottle of ginger.

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rosie read n' post said:

i wonder if you could use your crumble stuff as a real pie crust?
(on the bottom of the pie plate)

Why not just use finely chopped nuts in melted butter for a crust? You
could add a bit of whey protein powder for a binder, too.

--Jenny

when I want a pie crust or cheesecake base, I use whole (unblanched) dry
roasted almonds processed to a crumb-like texture. They don't even need the
butter, the moisture of the mix on top of them binds them nicely.

Pie is how you got fat in the first place.

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I'm so happy I can now eat pumpkin pie and make it in the microwave.

Others have probably done this but here goes.

Buy canned pumpkin. Beware of Pumpkin Pie Mix in the can. It's loaded with
sugar.

Follow recipe, but make these substitutions. Use sweetener instead of
sugar (obviously). Substitute Hood's Low carb dairy beverage for the milk.
Add a little whole cream to the mix. You could probably use a low carb soy
milk with a little whole cream.

Microwave a pie-deep level of the mix in a covered microwave dish at low
heat for about 20 minutes. I set my power setting at 40%. Check it every
so often. When you can insert a knife slightly off center and it comes out
clean, it's done.

For the crust, I make soy flour crumbles by mixing canola oil, soy flour,
cinnamon and Splenda in a non-stick pan, stirring with a wooden spoon over
a medium heat until I get crisp crumbles. Sprinkle these over the cooked
pie mix.

Jenny wrote:
|| rosie read n' post wrote:
||| i wonder if you could use your crumble stuff as a real pie crust?
||| (on the bottom of the pie plate)
|||
|| Why not just use finely chopped nuts in melted butter for a crust?
|| You could add a bit of whey protein powder for a binder, too.
||
||
|| --Jenny
||
|| http://www.geocities.com/lottadata4u/ Type 2 Diabetes info
|| http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Low Carb info

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JC Der Koenig wrote:
|| Pie is how you got fat in the first place.
||
|| --

*YAWN*

Whatsamatter fatboy, sleepy from eating all that pie?

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JC Der Koenig wrote:
|| Pie is how you got fat in the first place.
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*YAWN*

Uncle Enrico said:

Have you ever turned the nuts into a kind of nut meal? Do you use a
flavored protein poweder? I'm anxious to try this.

Enrico,

I use the Precision Engineered Vanilla Whey protein for all my protein
powder needs. Its the cheaper one available at Vitamin World.

I buy regular nuts at Trader Joes and put them in a little electric
chopper.

I have made cookies with homemade nut meal, and they are delicious, but
they are also extremely high calorie, and being a small, middle-aged
lady who can't do much exercise, I have to watch calories much more
closely than most people to maintain. So I rarely make them.

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--Jenny

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http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Low Carb info

Jenny said:

I use the Precision Engineered Vanilla Whey protein for all my protein
powder needs. Its the cheaper one available at Vitamin World.

I've got half of a large container of chocolate whey protein left. I
wonder if chocolate would clash with pumpkin pie? Chocolate usually
works well with almost anything.