Types of Squash for Pecan Pumpkin Pie Recipe

Video Transcript

"This is Mary Murphy and you are watching Expert Village. When you make pumpkin pecan pie you can use a variety of pumpkin or squash. Of course you can always go to the grocery store and buy a can of already prepare cook pumpkin pie but in this case we are going to use some squash from the garden. These squashes all squashes have a slightly very personality this is butter nut, this is a Kuri Uchiki it also called Kuri and this is a small sugar pumpkin. These 2 are delicate but they are very good to eat and only if you needed to you would use them in a pie but they would have to be puree. A butternut is a very nutty sweet flavor I would recommend that and that is what we would be using today. Sugar pumpkins are also very good for pumpkin pie and Kuri Uchiki will make a it a more orange color you would actually in the Kuri Uchiki you use the skin of a Kuri Uchiki. This one needs to be cleaned up a bit but you would use the skin of this. Now we would use the butternut for the pumpkin pie today and prepare it. "