Pumpkin Pie Recipe

This is a quick easy pumpkin pie recipe. Which is perfect for the holidays or anytime you want pumpkin pie to please your taste buds. Pumkin is also good for you because it comes from your orange food group.

Pumpkin is loaded with an important antioxidant, beta-carotene. Beta-carotene is one of the plant carotenoids that converted to vitamin A in your body. In the conversion to vitamin A, beta carotene performs many important functions in your overall health.

Research today indicates that a diet rich in foods containing beta-carotene may reduce the risk of you developing certain types of cancer and it protect against heart disease. Beta-carotene protect against other diseases as well as some aspects of aging.

You should have at least two items a day from your orange food group if not three.



Ingredients
2 eggs
1 (16 oz) can of pumpkin puree
1 (14 oz) can of sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp of pumpkin pie spice
1 pie shell

Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 425 F.
2. Combine eggs, pumpkin puree, sweetened condensed milk and pumpkin pie spice and mix.
3. Pour the mixture into a pie shell.
4. Bake for 15 minutes at 425 F.
5. Then reduce the heat and bake for 35-40 minuets longer at 350 F.