Swapping Ingredients, Fixing Seasonings

By Leslie Cerier

Posted 01/24/2017

In Blog, Cooking Tips

Leslie Cerier's Gluten-Free Pumpkin Pie

Have you ever had fun swapping ingredients?

Perhaps, you were out of an ingredient for a recipe.

Ready to create something new?

Today, I had fun making a quicker, vegan, gluten free Sweet Potato Pie.

You can so it, too.

Swap ingredients. Skip steps.

Fix overzealous seasonings.

Be confident and willing to experiment.

Here’s how I did it:

First, I decided to swap organic pecan oil for virgin coconut oil.

In my original procedure, I blended coconut butter and water before adding all the ingredients for the filling. Today, I skipped the first step and shortened the procedure. I added and pureed all of filling ingredients: coconut butter, water, sweet potatoes, spices, sea salt, chia seeds) and it came out fine.

Except, I was a little overzealous with the nutmeg and it overpowered the flavor of the sweet potato and other spices.

No worries, I looked up recipe first aid in The Quick and Easy Organic Gourmet, one of my cookbooks, and voila, I added a bit more sea salt and it balanced all the flavors perfectly.

The local, organic, sweet potatoes here in New England are in season.

I hope you will join me for a private or group hands on Cooking Class soon

In the meantime, have a great organic feast!

Thanks to Tracey Eller for photos

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