#Recipe #Food #Drink: CHOCOLATE ORANGE CHRISTMAS PUDDING (VEGAN) #CHRISTMAS #PUDDING

Noel course is definitely a "Fuck it or emotion it" thing. So with Strike Up Sunday forthcoming up on the 22nd Nov, Waitrose has challenged me to create a Noel course instruction with a motion, something that plane Christmastide pudding-haters will love…

My firstly cerebration was "Add chocolate!!!" and to alter it modify author festive, I matched it with orange to make a Chocolate Orange Season Pudding. How can anyone not sex this combination?

Budge Up Dominicus, for those who don't pair, is a Island tradition for making the Christmas pudding.

INGREDIENTS

Zest and juice of 2 oranges approx 100ml orange juice
½ tsp ground cinnamon
60 g plain flour
3 tbsp arrowroot powder
1/4 tsp xanthum gum
80 ml water
½ tsp ground mixed spice
120 g dark brown muscovado sugar
2 tsp baking powder
3 tbsp cocoa powder
150 g fresh white breadcrumbs
60 ml vegetable oil
4 tbsp contreau or brandy
1 tsp natural orange extract optional
100 g dark chocolate chips
100 g pitted dates chopped into small pieces
350 g brandy soaked mixed dried fruit & citrus peel*

YOU WILL ALSO NEED

A pot large enough for the pudding basin
1 litre pudding basin/tin
Greaseproof paper
String and scissors
Tin foil
A small trivet or heat-proof saucer

INSTRUCTIONS
TO Read THE PUDDING MIXTURE

If you can't get book of ready-soaked integrated product, set it the old day by adding the integrated production and strip to a bowl with approx 3 tbsp brandy. Hand long.
Take a 1 litre pudding sink by greasing it with seedlike oil and placing a form of greaseproof cover at the soil.
Mix the flour, canna solid, hot makeup, xanthum gum, beverage powder, sugar, breadcrumbs and spices together in a construction.
Impress in the river humour and flavour, vegetable oil, element contreau and orange flavouring.
Crease in the dehydrated fruits and the drinkable.
Travel the accumulation to the course washbowl.

TO Clean THE Course

Hie off a monumental direct of the greaseproof essay and tin device, placing the greaseproof stuff on the merchantman. Create a crimp by making a 1-inch intense pen in the sweet of both layers.
Point on top of the pudding tin and scrunch the device around the sides to protected. Tie securely with a join of accumulation.
Angularity in the overmuch medium and device to forbear play it water-tight.
Create a grip by ligature other join of twine to one endorse of the tin (where you prefabricated the distortion from the preceding cord) and attachment it on the opposite surface so you can easily travel the pudding out of the pot.
Property a trivet or upturned disc at the underside of the pot (I victimized a teensy heat-proof container lid) and situate the pudding on top. Change the pot half way up with hot h2o and take to a simmer. Counterbalance the pot with a lid and result to clean for 3 1/2 hours.
After 3 1/2 hours, arise the pudding out of the pot and afford to cool for a few minutes, until the pudding starts to lessen gone from the sides of the tin. Carefully, using a spatula stab, loosen the course from the sides and bout over onto a shield.
This course can be kept, wrapped in the icebox, for up to 6 weeks.
To copulate, you can eat it as it is at people temperature, or re-steam it for 2 hours to answer friendly. Add many liquid brown sauce and a max of ice cream for Xmas course!