Healthy Christmas Pudding
Christmas pudding is essential to our festive indulgences and it’s so easy and satisfying to make your own — simply mix the ingredients and steam. No fuss required! For a gluten-free pud, swap the plain flour and breadcrumbs for almond meal or rice flour.
Healthy Christmas Pudding
This Christmas pudding is an essential indulgence and it’s so easy and satisfying to make your own — simply mix the ingredients and steam.
Servings
1
Prep time
Cook time
Recipe
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Ingredients
- 600g mixed dried fruit
- 175mL dry sherry (or dry liquor of choice)
- 1 cup Stoney Creek Organic Flaxseed Meal
- 1 cup plain flour or gluten-free alternative
- ½ cup breadcrumbs
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup brown sugar, tightly packed
- 50g chopped almonds or hazelnuts
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tbsp golden syrup or honey
- 100g butter, melted and slightly cooled
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Zest & juice 1 orange
- Custard, cream and ice cream, to serve
Method
- Steep dried fruit in alcohol overnight.
- Grease and line a 1.5L pudding bowl.
- Combine all ingredients except the custard in a large mixing bowl and mix well.
- Spoon mixture into pudding bowl, cover with grease-proof paper and foil and tie down with an elastic band or secure a pudding lid. Place on rack in steamer with water to half-way up bowl.
- Steam for 2½ hours, adding boiling water as required.
- Serve with custard, cream, ice cream … or why not all three?!
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