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My Ultimate Christmas Pudding (adapted from Nigella Lawson)

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Ingredients

8 portion(s)

Fruit Mix

  • 100 grams currants
  • 100 grams sultanas
  • 100 grams dried cranberries
  • 150 grams Prunes, chopped
  • 175 grams sweet sherry

Remaining Pudding Ingredients

  • 100 grams plain flour
  • 125 grams fresh bread, preferably from bakery/home baked
  • 150 grams Copha, or suet if you like
  • 150 grams Dark Brown Sugar
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 green apple, meduim, peeled and grated
  • zest of 1 lemon
  • 3 eggs, medium
  • 2 tablespoon honey
  • 50 grams pecans, chopped roughly
  • 50 grams pistachios, unsalted, chopped roughly

Other Ingredients

  • 1 litre water
  • 125 grams vodka, optional (to flambe)
  • lighter or matches, optional (to light flambe)
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    3h 30min
    Preparation 30min
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      If you are using a Thermomix® TM6 measuring cup with your Thermomix® TM5:
      For cooking (simmering) at temperatures of 95°C or above (200°F), the simmering basket should always be used instead of the TM6 measuring cup, as the TM6 measuring cup fits tightly in the lid. The simmering basket rests loosely on top, is steam-permeable, and also prevents food spatter from the mixing bowl.
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Recipe's preparation

    Fruit Mix

  1. Weigh fruit and sherry into mixing bowl. Mix for 5sec/Counter-clockwise operation/sp1 Pour into a bowl and cover with cling wrap Leave to soak for 1-7days (7 days is best)

    2. Pudding Mix

  2. Tear bread into thermomix bowl and blitz for 10sec/sp5 until a fine crumb. Set this aside in large mixing bowl.

    Cut copha into 1-2cm cube and weigh into thermomix bowl. Blitz 10sec/sp8 until chopped finely.

    Peel and grate apple.

    Place large mixing bowl on thermomix and weigh remaining pudding ingredients into bowl.

    Add fruit mix and stir well.

    3. Steaming your Pudding

  3. Grease a 1L pudding basin or Pyrex bowl with copha (or butter if using suet)

    Spoon mixture into the pudding basin until 1cm from top. Smooth the mixture out.

    Cover pudding basin with a sheet of glad bake and 2-3 sheet of aluminium foil with a pleat folded into the top to allow for rising. Ensure that the basin is covered loosely on top but tightly around the bowl to ensure no water can enter.

    **You will have enough mix for a small 1 1/2 cup pie dish which you can also grease, fill, and wrap as per these instructions** 

     

    Fill Thermomix bowl with 1L of BOILING water.

    Place simmering basket in (use only if cooking small pudding at the same time) along with the lid and deep varoma tray.

    Place (small pudding in simmer basket if cooking) and large pudding into the varoma.

    Steam for 60mins/100ºC/sp2. Check water level and top up to 1L mark if required.

    Steam again for 60mins/100ºC/sp2. (REMOVE smaller pudding after 30mins)

    Continue cooking larger pudding.

    Check water level and top up to 1L mark if required.

    Steam for a further 60mins/100ºC/sp2. 

    When finished carefully remove bowl from varoma and turn out onto a small plate. 

    Let cool and then wrap in glad bake, cling wrap then pudding cloth or 100% cotton tea towel.

    Store in a cool dark and dry place. I choose the fridge however it will keep in a cool, dry, and dark cupboard. 

     

    4. Serving

  4. To serve replace pudding in basin and cover tightly with aluminium foil ( no need for pleate as already cooked)

    Fill Thermomix bowl with 1L of BOILING water, place lid and deep varoma tray on top.

    Place pudding basin into varoma. Steam for 30mins/100ºC/sp2.

    Turn pudding out on to a serving plate

    Optional:

    Pour vodka over pudding then take to table and flambe by lighting with a match or lighter.

    Best served warm with Brandy Custard and icecream.

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Tip

Pudding will keep in cool dark and dry place. If concerned store in the fridge. 

Due to the nature of Christmas Pudding, it can keep for up to a year. This particular recipe I make up to 6 weeks prior to christmas and store until required.

To test to see if cooked open the wrapping and insert a knife. If it comes out clean its cooked.

If you wish to booze this up and feed your pudding (add more sherry) you can cool the pudding then put back into basin. Store in the fridge wrapped tightly in cling wrap. You can add 1-2 tablespoons of sherry weekly, for 6 weeks, until christmas.

The small pudding is a great tester however you can also spoon a little pudding out of the centre of the large on to taste test as this will be upturned for presentation.

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  • Do you think it would be successful using gluten...

    Submitted by Jennyfrancois on 7. December 2017 - 09:19.

    Do you think it would be successful using gluten free flour and bread?😊

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  • This pudding was amazing - i had SO many comment...

    Submitted by becobi on 12. January 2017 - 09:17.

    This pudding was amazing - i had SO many comment from family saying it was the best puddings they have had in years - better than nan's they said lol which is a huge compliment -- i didnt add the walnuts and a little extra sherry and a tablespoon of brandy... it was perfect - thank you for posting this!

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  • My first christmas pudding - and this recipe is...

    Submitted by becobi on 22. December 2016 - 14:22.

    My first christmas pudding - and this recipe is fantastic!!! So easy and smells amazing i cant wait to serve it to my family! thank you!

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  • Please enjoy

    Submitted by HestonIsMyIdol on 23. November 2016 - 22:46.

    Please enjoy tmrc_emoticons.)

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