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Christmas Pudding with Tropical Fruit and Rum

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Christmas Pudding with Tropical Fruit and Rum

This is a delicious, lighter alternative to traditional Christmas pudding, prepared in just 20 minutes.

  • Christmas
  • Vegetarian
Preparation time:
20 minutes
Cooking time:
120 minutes
Total time:
2 hours 20 minutes 60 minutes 60 minutes 20 minutes
Serves:
 8

Ingredients

  • 100g Atora Light Shredded Vegetable Suet
  • 50g self-raising flour
  • 100g fresh white breadcrumbs
  • 1 tsp mixed spice
  • 200g light brown muscovado sugar
  • 100g pecans, roughly chopped
  • 150g pack Waitrose Soft Tropical Fruit Medley, roughly chopped
  • 1 apple, coarsely grated
  • 150ml Waitrose Finest West Indian Rum
  • 2 large eggs, beaten

Method

  1. Place the suet, flour, breadcrumbs, spice, sugar, pecans, tropical fruit and grated apple in a large bowl.
  2. Make a well in the centre, then add the rum and eggs, and mix well. Spoon into a buttered 1-litre pudding basin. Top with a circle of buttered greaseproof paper, then cover with a sheet of pleated foil, scrunching it firmly round the rim of the basin. Tie around the top of the basin with kitchen string.
  3. Place the basin in a steamer or sit it on an upturned, heatproof saucer in a large pan. Fill the pan three-quarters of the way up with boiling water, then cover and steam for 1½-2 hours, topping up occasionally with boiling water, if necessary.
  4. Remove from the steamer or pan and leave the pudding to cool for about 15 minutes before turning out and serving with Waitrose Vanilla and Fine Cognac Brandy Sauce or fresh cream.

Cook's tips

If you prefer not to use rum, try substituting it with 150ml cold camomile tea.The pudding can be made up to 3 days in advance and kept chilled. To reheat, steam for 30 minutes or until heated through.

Drinks recommendation

The tropical fruit flavours of this contemporary dish will go well with Riesling.

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Orcababy

Orcababy 29 December 2007 14:30

This is good;it's as near as you want to get to Christmas pud if you, like me, don't like the stuff - I think it will satisfy the traditionalists and Christmas-pud-dislikers alike. One point: the recipe calls for a 150g pack of the tropical fruit medley, which actually comes in a 250g pack. We used the 250g pack with good results, so I assume the 150g is a misprint (which occurred in the recipe card version as well when it came out in ?? Xmas 2006).

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Nutritional Info

Typical values per serving:
Energy 488.0kcal
Sugars 44.1g
Fat 20.5g
Saturated Fat 4.5g
Salt 0.4g

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This recipe was first published on Waitrose.com in December 2006