Description
For a Christmas dessert that is rich and full of flavour, try this easy steamed plum pudding recipe. It is so much better than any store bought pudding!
Ingredients
- 350g (2 cups) of mixed dried fruit *
- 1 tablespoon of finely grated orange zest
- 1/2 cup of orange juice
- 3 tablespoons of sherry (or brandy)
- 1/2 cup of plain flour
- 1/2 cup of self raising flour
- 1/2 teaspoon of bi carb soda
- 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon of mixed spice
- 1/2 teaspoon of ground nutmeg
- 1/2 cup of flaked almonds
- 125g (1/2 cup) of melted butter
- 115g (1/2 cup) caster sugar
- 2 large eggs
Instructions
- Grease a 1 litre (4 cup) metal pudding steamer and line the base with 2 layers of baking paper.
- Place your mixed fruit, orange peel, and orange juice into a saucepan and stir over a low to medium heat for 10 minutes or until the fruit has softened. Then remove from heat and allow to cool for about 30 minutes before stirring through the sherry.
- Place flours, bi carb soda, cinnamon, mixed spice, and nutmeg in a large bowl and stir to combine.
- Add almonds, butter, caster sugar, eggs, and fruit mixture and stir until well combined.
- Spoon mixture into prepared pudding steamer then smooth the top of the mixture and secure the lid.
- Place steamer into a large saucepan and add boiling water to the saucepan so that it come about half way up the sides of the steamer.
- Boil gently over a low heat for 2 hours and 45 minutes. Make sure to keep topping up the water in the saucepan as required. Pudding is cooked when a cake tester or skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
- Once cooked, remove steamer from the saucepan and allow to pudding to stand for 10 – 15 minutes.
- Turn pudding out onto a plate and serve** with cream, custard, and ice cream.
Notes
* Dried fruit that I used was a mixture of sultanas, raisins, currents, mixed peel, and some glace cherries.
** Can be made a day or two early and stored in the fridge to be reheated on Christmas day. Alternatively pudding can be made a week or two ahead of time and frozen (wrapped in greaseproof paper and in an airtight container) before reheating on Christmas day.
Nutrition
- Calories: 413
- Sugar: 30.6
- Sodium: 295mg
- Fat: 16.7g
- Saturated Fat: 8.7g
- Carbohydrates: 61.6g
- Fiber: 4.6g
- Protein: 6.3g
- Cholesterol: 80mg
