Crisp buttered bread drenched in a creamy coconut almond saffron custard with cinnamon and nutmeg; Bread and Butter Pudding.
Buckle up buttercup. And, gorge.
This dish will obliterate any belief that vegan food can’t be simple to rustle up with a few choice ingredients.
Make this:
- When you’re in the mood from comfort eating. You’ve had a challenging week. And, a simple wholesome dish will do the trick
- When you’ve got stale bread. You don’t really wanna be throwing in the bin. Indeed, a lush bread and butter pudding will hoover up leftovers
- When you’ve got a Sunday Roast. You’re scratching your head as to what to dish up. And, this would do perfectly
Bread and Butter Pudding was inspired by nostalgic memories of school lunches. I’d love simplicity of this dish. And, served with fresh custard brings back fond memories. I love this dish because of its lushness, richness and sumptuousness and yet it reminds me of my youth too.
This Pudding is vegan, and British cuisine.
Where I purchase ingredients from
Blanched almonds, I purchase from a nifty Asian outlet in Hayes. It has an online presence too which can be found here – I love it because it is reasonably priced and tends to be good quality stuff which I use.
What equipment to use
For this recipe, I suggest:
High-speed blender
Stove
Oven
What to do next
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Love.
Edward x
Ingredients
- 75g sultanas, dried
- ½ orange, juice
- 75g raisins, dried
- 100ml filtered water
- 400g bread, stale
- 75g vegan butter
- 400ml coconut milk
- 100g almonds, blanched
- 100g millet
- 35g flaxseeds
- Few saffron strands
- 350ml filtered water
- 150g unrefined cane sugar
- 1tbs kuzu plus 1tbs filtered water
- Zest of half a lemon
- Freshly ground nutmeg
- Small cinnamon stick, ground
Instructions
- In a small bowl leave sultanas to soak in orange juice for about 30 minutes. Similarly, soak the raisins in water too. Set to one side.
- Preheat oven to gas mark 180 degrees Celsius or if convention oven to 160 degrees Celsius.
- Toast the bread on both sides under a grill. Spread butter on one side. Line in a grease proof dish. Set to one side.
- Slice the bread and butter. Place the bread in a greased proof oven dish
- In a high-speed blender, blitz together the almonds, millet, water, saffron and sugar. Pour into a saucepan.
- Dissolve the kuzu in a tablespoon water. Pour into the almond milk with the coconut milk. Use a hand-held whisk to stir the custard around. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat and switch off the custard.
- Stir in the vanilla extract, lemon zest, nutmeg and cinnamon.
- Sprinkle half the sultanas and raisins over the bread. Pour the orange juice into the custard.
- Drizzle the custard over the bread and sprinkle the remaining sultanas and raisins.
- Cover the bread pudding with aluminium foil. Bake in the oven for about 25 minutes.
- Remove the foil and return to the oven for a further 10 minutes. Remove when the bread starts to turns a lovely golden colour.
- Sprinkle warm.
2 comments
What temperature do you bake this at? I don’t see it mentioned in the instructions.
Hi Anton
Thanks for pointing this out – much appreciated… I have corrected the error and recipe. Hope it turns out well…
Edward