Recipe of Super Quick Homemade Christmas pudding

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, christmas pudding. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Christmas pudding is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Christmas pudding is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook christmas pudding using 14 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas pudding:

1. Prepare 500 g Waitrose brandy-soaked mixed fruits-make your own overnight
2. Prepare 80 ml brandy
3. Make ready 100 g plain flour
4. Take 1 tsp baking powder
5. Take 125 g fresh breadcrumbs (you can use white bread)
6. Prepare 175 g dark brown sugar
7. Make ready 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
8. Make ready 1/2 tsp freshly ground nutmeg
9. Make ready Grated zest of 1 lemon(or orange)
10. Get 150 g shredded vegetable suet
11. Make ready 1 cooking apple peeled and grated
12. Take 50 g almond flakes
13. Prepare 3 eggs beaten
14. Get Butter or vegetable spread for greasing

Instructions to make Christmas pudding:

1. Soak fruits overnight in brandy if using your own mix. I soaked them in 80 ml of brandy just as I start getting mix ready for extra alcohol.
2. Mix flour, baking powder, fresh breadcrumbs, sugar, spices, lemon zest, suet, apple and almonds in big bowl.
3. Add fruit and remaining juices to the flour mix
4. Beat the eggs and add to mixture. Stir to mix well.
5. Prepare pudding basin: butter (use veg spread if preferred) a 1.2litre basin. Put disc of baking paper in the base
6. Pour mixture in prepared basin
7. Cover with a double sheet of baking paper and add two layers of foil on top. Tie all the layers with a secure knot and arrange handle to be able to lift pudding
8. Place pudding in a large pan(I use my maslin pan which I use for preserves) and fill halfway with water. Cover with a lid and steam for 6 hours.
9. You may have to top water up every now and again as it evaporates.
10. After steaming lift pudding from the pan and let it cool completely. Remove foil and baking parchment and cover with new sheets.
11. Store in cool dark place for up to 6 weeks.
12. To reheat steam for 2 hours as before until piping hot. Invert pudding into large plate to serve
13. I like mine with brandy sauce but everyone else at home will have it with custard instead.
14. To flame the pudding warm 100ml of brandy in a small saucepan but do not let it boil. Pour over the pudding and quickly ignite keeping at arms length.

So that is going to wrap this up for this exceptional food christmas pudding recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I’m confident you can make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food in home recipes coming up. Remember to save this page in your browser, and share it to your family, friends and colleague. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!