Some of you will have looked at the
recipe for making Christmas pudding and
said that's a lot a lot of work just to
make a Christmas pudding. Maybe there's
just one of you at home and you don't
want to go to all that trouble. Now I can
assure you it's worth going to the
trouble but if you can't here is a super
simple recipe for making a christmas
pudding in a mug, which I think tastes
very similar to the real thing.
Come on let's show you how. Hi and a huge
Christmas welcome to Steve's kitchen,
yesterday I made Christmas pudding in a
mug and I can tell you that was
delicious you'll be fighting them off in
the streets for it but today we're going
to be making luxury Christmas pudding in
a mug.
nNow it's a little extra work, not a great
deal but it's still very quick to make
and for a bit of fun we're going to be
making custard in a cup as well. So let
me show you how.
Now there are two or three major
differences between the deluxe Christmas
pudding and the standard Christmas
pudding and the first of those is the
fruit that I'm putting in, I'm putting in a
much more variety of fruit and the fruit
I have here has to equal still, half a
cup of fruit but rather than just going
for mixed fruit
I've got some currants, some lovely dark
sweet curreants, got my own mixed peel
here just pop that in there.
I've got some raisins, some of these
sweet soft raisins, cranberries of course
wonderful for Christmas and then I have
some glacé cherries, some dried
apricots and some dates, here which I do
have to just finely chopped up. So there
they are all diced up now and I'll just
lift them up and put them into the mug.
So there's our half a cup of fruit, now
we want to add some brandy to that I'm
going to put a tablespoon of brandy and
pour it over the fruit, give it a little
mix through. So we set that aside for at
least 10 or 15 minutes now so the fruit
becomes lovely and plump and moist
from the brandy and while that's doing
that we're going to make custard in a
cup. So how are we going to make custard in a
cup, well we're going to take one egg
yolk, pop it into our cup, 2 teaspoons of
granulated sugar and 1 tablespoon of
corn flour. Now I know our American friends
call that cornstarch and we're going to
add half a teaspoon of vanilla extract
and then we're going to take these
ingredients and mix them to a paste and
try to mix that until you've got no
lumps in there at all.
Now here I got one cup of full cream
milk and I'm just going to pour about a
quarter of that in there and then just
mix it through again, again so we don't
get any lumps in the custard and when
it's nice and even like that we'll take
the last bit of the milk, pour it all
into the cup.
Now give that one last good stir then
we're going to pop that straightaway into
the microwave for 30 seconds and bring
it out and stir it again.
Now its important
we take the custard out of the microwave
every 30 seconds and give it a good stir
if we don't want lumpy custard. Now that
will go back in for another 30 seconds
probably about a minute and a half to
two minutes before it's completely
thickened. Now look at that custard it's
beautiful there are no lumps in there, it
took about two minutes and you do have
to let it boil, just bubble a little bit
but be careful don't overdo it.
So now that it's piping hot we'll just
set that on the side and finish our
christmas pudding. So back with our
Christmas pudding in a mug, you can see
that the brandy has soaked now into that
fruit, I'm going to take one whole egg
and just break it in on top, now 1
tablespoon of self-raising flour, if you
only have all purpose flour you have to
add a pinch of baking powder into it,
one tablespoon of a dark soft brown
sugar.
Now this is luxury Christmas pudding so
I am using Half a tablespoon of suet, if
you can't get suet
use butter, one half a teaspoon of Dutch
processed good quality cocoa and of
course the spices. I've got mixed spice
here and I'm going to put one teaspoon
of mixed spice in, 1 tablespoon of milk
and 1 tablespoon of a vegetable oil and
as I said on the last pudding you can
choose between a treacle and molasses.
This time I'm going to use the molasses
so that's two tablespoons of dark
molasses. Now will you look at that, I'm
going to mix that up. Now the smells
coming from there are delightful, I'm going
to mix that up to a lovely soft batter
and once all your dry goods are
incorporated and you've got a nice smooth
batter, that is going in a microwave at
high for 2 minutes and you can just imagine
how that is going to smell and taste
when it's cooked.
Now that's come out of the microwave and
it is looking and smelling delicious
I've got my custard in a cup here, I'm
not going to eat it out of the mug,
I'm just going to run a knife around the
inside of the cup and then just pull
this one out onto my plate like that. My
that looks fantastic.
Now we've got our custard, I do love a
bit of custard on my Christmas pudding,
there Now let's pour that on, there is enough
here probably for two people.
Now I'm in Christmas pudding heaven,
doesn't that look fantastic, my god I am
so impressed, the smell coming up here,
that custard is perfect. I am lucky
enough I wish I could share this with
some of you it's just wonderful.
Let me know if you decide to make this
Let's try this, now be careful out of the
microwave, this can be very hot. I'm going
to give this a try.
Ooh that encapsulates everything about
Christmas pudding and Christmas itself,
one of the best desserts I think over
the Christmas period.
Well I hope you try this one it's
absolutely delicious and please whether
you try this one or the last one, comment
down below and let me know you have it.
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That was my luxury Christmas pudding in
a mug, I have another one for a standard
Christmas pudding in a mug and a whole
playlist of Christmas recipes if you
want to check it out.
We are making lots of videos also here
in Sicily, Italy with the run-up to
christmas. I hope you'll enjoy them please
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