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Steamed Orange and Chocolate Chip Puddings

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Steamed Orange and Chocolate Chip Puddings

Rukmini Iyer's luxurious, warm, steamed orange pudding, peppered with melty chocolate chips, is a family favourite recipe inspired by her mother.
Serves 6
Total 55 min
Prep 15 min
Cook 40 min

Introduction from Rukmini Iyer

There are an infinite number of steamed puddings you can make from the same basic cake recipe – jam, ginger, chocolate. This, however, is my favourite, because my mother used to make it, full-sized. The giveaway was a large orange appearing in the fruit bowl – further investigation revealing a bag of chocolate chips in the cupboard. The pudding was even better than the anticipation.

Ingredients

2 clementines
115g butter
115g caster sugar
½ tsp vanilla bean paste
2 eggs
115g self-raising flour
½ tsp baking powder
100g dark chocolate chips

Essential kit

You will need: 6 dariole moulds, buttered.

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C fan/180°C/gas 4. Take six slices out of one of the clementines, and place one at the bottom of each dariole mould. Zest and juice the remaining clementine.

Mix the butter, sugar and vanilla paste with the clementine zest until light and fluffy, then add the eggs one by one and whisk until fully incorporated.

Fold in the flour and baking powder, then stir in 1 tablespoon of the clementine juice and the chocolate chips. Divide the cake batter equally between the moulds.

Place them in a roasting tin and pour in enough boiling water to come no higher than one third of the way up the moulds.

Cover the roasting tin tightly with foil, then transfer carefully to the oven and bake for 40 minutes.

Remove the moulds from the water on to a plate, and gently run a knife around the edges of each pudding to unmould. (Make sure to get the knife right to the bottom of the mould, so that the clementine slice doesn’t get left behind.) Serve immediately.

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From the book: The Roasting Tin: Deliciously Simple One-Dish Dinners

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