Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, christmas figgy pudding. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Create new Christmas traditions with this figgy pudding recipe. "Oh, bring us some figgy pudding and a cup of good cheer!" And there it is, the rallying cry of the Christmas carolers of yore. Well, figgy pudding is an actual Christmas dessert. It doesn't look anything like pudding, but it's been a popular winter dessert for many years.
Christmas Figgy Pudding is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Christmas Figgy Pudding is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have christmas figgy pudding using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Figgy Pudding:
- Make ready 285 g dried mixed fruit and citrus
- Make ready 165 g dried figs, destalked and diced
- Take 250 g butter
- Make ready 175 mls date syrup
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Prepare 1 tsp cinnamon
- Get 1 tsp nutmeg
- Make ready 130 g almond meal
- Prepare 210 g wholemeal spelt flour
- Get 4 large clementines juiced and zested
Figgy Pudding, a traditional dessert for Christmas celebrations is more like a cake than a pudding. As you probably all know by now I love Christmas Pudding. It's one of my All time Favorite Christmas Treats. Sometimes it's called Plum Pudding or Figgy. "Ah, Figgy Pudding!
Steps to make Christmas Figgy Pudding:
- The night before, put your clementine juice and zest in a mixing bowl. Add the dried mixed fruit and citrus, and the diced figs. Stir well to ensure the fruit is well covered with the clementine juice. Stir the mixture several times until you come to make the pudding.
- Pre-heat oven to 160°C
- In a food processor/blender, blend the dried fruit mixture until it is pureed.
- Melt the butter and pour into a large food processor mixing bowl, pour in the date syrup and mix. Using the beater on your food processor (or using a wooden spoon if mixing by hand), slowly incorporate the blended dried fruit mixture into the butter.
- Break your eggs into a jug or bowl, add the cinnamon and nutmeg, and beat until fluffy. Slowly pour the eggs into the fruit and butter mixture. Beat well as you pour the eggs in to ensure it is well incorporated.
- Sift the flour into the mixture, discard the larger bran flakes left in the sieve. Pour the almond mixture onto the flour and then using a large spoon, fold the flour into the dried fruit until no dry flour is left visible.
- Lightly grease your pudding basin with olive oil. Spoon the mixture into the dish, pushing the mixture right to the base and making sure that there are no air pockets at the bottom of the basin. Smooth the mixture flat on the surface of the pudding.
- Cover the top of the pudding basin with parchment paper and tie securely with string under the rim of the basin. Cover the paper with foil and ensure that no steam can get inside the lining. Fill a deep baking tray half-full with boiling water. Place the sealed pudding basin in the baking tray and put the baking tray in the middle of the oven.
- Bake for 1 ½ - 2 hours. Oven times may vary, after 1 ½ hours, insert a skewer into the middle of the pudding. If it comes out clean then the pudding is cooked. If not, put the pudding back in the oven until it is cooked through.
This really is a figgy pudding as it includes dried figs, as well as all the usual dried fruit. The fig seeds bring a hint of a crunch to the finished pudding, which makes for a first-rate texture. Figgy pudding might be a fixture in Christmas carol lyrics, but you've probably never seen it in "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is an ode to figgy pudding disguised as a straightforward Christmas. In actuality, figgy pudding is more of a cake than a pudding. The figgy pudding should always be served warm.
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