Magnesium-Rich Pumpkin Pie

THANKSGIVING BRAIN RECIPE:

Make your pumpkin-pie a brain-healthy magnesium-pie. Try this "cognitively-correct" dish for dinner.

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Cooking Information:

• Serves: 8
• Total Time: 14 hours
  

Ingredients:	Magnesium per ingredient
One 9” frozen pie crust, unbaked	22.7 mg
One 4 lb sugar pumpkin	217.6 mg
2 large eggs	12 mg
1 cup brown sugar, packed	19.8 mg
1 tablespoon whole wheat flour	10.4 mg
1/2 teaspoon salt	0 mg
1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice	7.5 mg
1 (12 oz.) can evaporated milk	91.2 mg

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
2. Cut pumpkin in half and remove seeds.
3. Line a large rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
4. Place pumpkin halves, flesh side down onto baking sheet.


5. Bake pumpkin until soft, about 30 to 40 minutes.
6. Remove pumpkin and let cool until it can be handled comfortably.
7. Scrape pumpkin flesh from peel and puree flesh in a blender.
8. Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
9. Combine all ingredients in a large mixing bowl and mix.
10. Pour mixture into unbaked pie crust and bake 10 minutes.
11. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees and bake an additional 40 to 50 minutes.
12. Cool pie and refrigerate overnight.

One serving of this recipe contains approximately 47.7 mg of magnesium, based on the "Magnesium Calculator" at Slowmag.com. This is only an approximation of magnesium intake.

See Also:

Magnesium's Importance to Brain Health