Pumpkin pie with meringue topping

This must be the most common vegetable dessert. You’ll find it throughout the USA and, as a kid growing up in New Zealand, I would make it often. It’s also great baked in a pie dish with a biscuit-crumb base in place of the pastry. If you can’t get pumpkin, you can use butternut squash successfully, and kumara and firm sweet potatoes also work surprisingly well. If you want to serve this as a cold dessert, you need to be aware that the meringue will collapse if left for too long. So, it’s b