American Sweet Potato Pie 

Step 1

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Fit the pie crust into a 9-inch pie plate and prick with crust with the tines of a fork all over. Fill crust with pie weights and bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes. Remove pie weights and continue baking 5 minutes more until crust is just blonde and barely showing color. Remove from oven and set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, both sugars, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, vanilla extract and lemon zest until well combined. Add the sweet potato puree, heavy cream and milk. Whisk again until well combined. Pour into pie crust and cover pie edges with a pie shield or foil. Bake in preheated oven for 40 minutes. Remove pie shield and continue baking 20 minutes more. Remove from oven and cool completely on a wire rack.