Christmas Figgy Pudding
Christmas Figgy Pudding

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, christmas figgy pudding. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Christmas Figgy Pudding is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Christmas Figgy Pudding is something which I have loved my entire life.

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.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have christmas figgy pudding using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas Figgy Pudding:
  1. Get 285 g dried mixed fruit and citrus
  2. Make ready 165 g dried figs, destalked and diced
  3. Get 250 g butter
  4. Make ready 175 mls date syrup
  5. Make ready 3 eggs
  6. Get 1 tsp cinnamon
  7. Make ready 1 tsp nutmeg
  8. Take 130 g almond meal
  9. Get 210 g wholemeal spelt flour
  10. Take 4 large clementines juiced and zested

Figgy Pudding Recipe - Simple and Traditional Recipe of Christmas Figgy Pudding. Figgy Pudding, a traditional dessert for Christmas celebrations is more like a cake than a pudding. 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.

Steps to make Christmas Figgy Pudding:
  1. 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.
  2. Pre-heat oven to 160°C
  3. In a food processor/blender, blend the dried fruit mixture until it is pureed.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.

You may have heard it in the popular Christmas song, "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", but have you ever had it? "Ah, Figgy Pudding! Christmas and Figgy Pudding… just belong together. Over the years I've made several different steamed puddings for Christmas. 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.

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