Sticky ginger pear pudding

Name: Sticky ginger pear pudding
Prep time: 1 h 50 min
Cook time: 1 h 50 min
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 85 grams golden syrup; 175 grams dark muscovado sugar, plus 1 tsp extra; 150 milliliters milk; 100 grams butter, plus lots extra for greasing; 175 grams self-raising flour; 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; 2 teaspoons ground ginger; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 6 balls stem ginger from a jar; 2 ripe pears, peeled; 1 egg; 1 serving custard, to serve; 50 milliliters syrup from the ginger jar; 100 milliliters brandy; 85 grams dark muscovado sugar

Sticky ginger pear pudding is a dessert that serves 8. One portion of this dish contains approximately 5g of protein, 12g of fat, and a total of 429 calories. This recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour and 50 minutes. If you have bicarbonate of soda, ground ginger, milk, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is a good option if you're following a lacto ovo vegetarian diet.

Instructions

Put the syrup, sugar and milk into a saucepan, then bring to a simmer to dissolve. Leave to cool almost completely while you get on with everything else.

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Sugar

Syrup

Milk

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Sauce Pan

Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas

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Oven

Put the butter, flour, bicarb, ground ginger and cinnamon into a food processor, then pulse until it forms fine crumbs. Generously butter a 1.4-litre pudding basin and sprinkle 1 tsp sugar into the bottom.

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Ginger Powder

Cinnamon

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

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Food Processor

Cut 3 of the ginger balls in half and put 5 halves, rounded-side down, into the bottom, like the points of a star.

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Ginger

Cut one cheek from a pear, then slice through about 10 times, without cutting through the stalk end. Put this into the bottom of the bowl amongst the ginger, then press gently so that the pear fans out. Core, then thinly slice the remaining pear. Finely chop the rest of the ginger.

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Ginger

Pear

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Bowl

Tip the cooled syrup mix and egg into a food processor, then quickly whizz with the dry ingredients to a batter. Take out the blade, then stir in the chopped ginger and sliced pear. Scrape the mix into the basin, then bake for 1 hr 20 mins until risen and dark golden, and a skewer comes out clean. Whatever you do, dont open the oven before 45 mins is up.

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Ginger

Syrup

Pear

Egg

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Food Processor

Oven

Skewers

To finish, gently melt the syrup ingredients in a pan together until the sugar dissolves, then boil briefly. Turn the pudding out of its basin just before serving, spoon over the syrup and serve with custard.

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Custard