Steamed Christmas Pudding

This is a steamed Christmas pudding. I generally do this sometime in the month of March much after Christmas because I always have some dry fruits in rum left over (from the plum cake). So once I am done with my Plum cake, I add some honey, almonds and walnuts to make this pudding.

Prep Time: 7 days Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

• 40 gms Chopped walnuts

• 40 gms Chopped almonds

• 25 gms Candied peels

• 25 gms Cherries

• 50 gms Cranberries

• 40 gms Raisins

• 40 gms Chopped dates

• 25 gms Candied ginger

• 150 ml Rum

• 3 tbsp Honey

• 70 ml Orange juice

• 4 Bread slices

• 75 gms Maida

• 15 gms Coco powder

• 1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder

• 1/2 tsp Clove powder

• 1/4 tsp Nutmeg powder

• 3/4 tsp Baking powder

• a pinch of Salt

• 70 gms Butter

• 70 gms Brown sugar

• 2 tbsp Orange zest

• 1 Egg

Instructions

1. Soak all the dry fruits and nuts in rum, orange juice and honey for a week. Keep mixing it

2. Whisk maida, baking powder, cocoa powder, salt, clove and cinnamon powder well

3. Drain the liquid out of the dry fruits and keep aside

4. Remove the sides of the bread and powder the soft portions

5. In a large mixing bowl, add the butter and sugar and cream it well

6. Add the orange zest and the egg and whisk it well

7. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet mixture and gently mix (if the mixture is a bit dry add little of the retained rum)

8. Toss in the drained dry fruits and nuts and gently mix

9. Pour this in greased ramekins. Cover it with a baking sheet and aluminium foil. Tie it tightly with a string

10. Place this carefully in a pressure cooker (taking care by adding very little water) and cook it in 1 whistle. Leave it for 30 mins on low flame.

11. Switch off and wait for the pressure to go down

12. Garnish with icing sugar and a cherry and have it warm